The race was 179 kilometres long, with 21 sections of cobbles totalling 34.9km in length, with it the finish in the famous velodrome in Roubaix. The weather in the week preceding the event consisted of a lot of heavy rain showers...
The M- Donnelly Sean Kelly team for the race was Paidi O’Brien, Tim Cassidy, Mark Cassidy, Micael Concannon, Roger Aiken and Andrew McQuaid. Team Manager was Eve Peteryns, Mechanic was Franky and Soigneur was Danny Vandermassen.
The M-Donnelly Sean Kelly Team travelled to Holland on the morning of the 7th of May for a UCI 1.2 race, Omloop de Kempen. The team for the race was Mark Cassidy, Tim Cassidy, Micael Concannon, Eoin Concannon, Paídi O’Brien, Andrew McQuaid, Roger Aiken and Ciaran Kelly...
The M-Donnelly Sean Kelly team selected for the Liege–Bastogne–Liege consisted of Paidi O’Brien, Mark Cassidy, Micael Concannon, Eoin Concannon, Ciaran Kelly and Andrew McQuaid. Read how they got on...
Day 5
Saturday’s final stage started in, and raced through some of the townships in Cape Town, and the transfer to the start passed through some scenes of unbelievable poverty. The most striking thing perhaps is that in spite of living in makeshift wood and tin huts that most of us would think too small for a garden shed...
At this very moment I am sitting at home in Belgium with a little time on my hands for the first time this hectic month.
Still in Spain and I cannot get my computer on line so I guess these pages will be a little late, it is so frustrating.
Well as I said in the last entry I was due to go to the team doctor to find out what was causing all of my breathing trouble this last few weeks.
This week will not go down as the most successful of my career due to a chest infection I picked up following Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
How's it goin' - Back again after what can only be described as a hectic week.