Open Racing

Orwell are very active on the national scene - see all the results and reports from open races here.

So this was it. A hard year of training was complete. There had been many sacrifices along the way. I had cut back on the treats, eased off the sauce and succumbed to a diet of low intensity monster miles each weekend come rain, hail or shine. My family had suffered with me.

As the old expression goes “time is a great healer” and that is certainly the case when Jamie decided to ride the Rás for the second consecutive year. The pain and stress of the previous year was fading, all that remained were fond memories of a fantastic week with some great people racing around Ireland in glorious sunshine.

Bernard English took an excellent silver in the A3 National Road Race Championships in Cong, County Mayo at the weekend and gives us an account....

Get a cup of tea, as Luke GJ recounts his experience of being awash in a tidal wave of roof racks in the Tour of Omagh cavalcade.....

Scott-Orwell Wheelers' Garry Blair took a fine third place at the A3 Race of Shannonside's Pat Coyle Memorial and reports back..

Bryan Geary reports back from a great performance at the Tommy Brady Memorial at the weekend...

Scott-Orwell Wheeler's Man of the Rás Jamie Busher finally gets around to telling the story...

Scott-Orwell Wheeler Conor Dowler took an excellent 2nd place in the A4 race at the Moynalty GP and tells the story

And so it begins. The organisers of Rás Tailteann 2016 chose Dublin Castle as the departure point for the 8 day International road race to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Sunday 22 May 2016, could be just another Sunday spin, but not this time, I am heading to Dublin Castle, An Post Rás Stage 1 is waiting for us. ....