Summer Spins 2021

300m of character building!

And just look at the lovely downhill that follows :)

Fortis est non pertubaris in rebus asperis

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Saturday █ Early Orange 08:30 █
Riders

Fintan O'Kelly
Ronan Simms
Paraic Morrissey

RSVP Ride with GPS by Friday lunchtime
Distance: 90Km / Elevation: 1200m
Route: Dundrum – Ballinascorney – Brittas – Manor Kilbride – Sally Gap – Roundwood (coffee stop) – Ballinastoe – Waterfall Road – Liam Horner – The featherbeds – Killakee – Dundrum

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Saturday █ Yellow 09:15 █

Yellow Riders signed up for Saturday

Gerry Reilly
Seamus Connolly
Frank Griffin
Noel Finnegan

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Saturday █ White 09:30 █

White Riders signed up for Saturday
Leader: Alan Gordon
Ann van den Ancker
Barry Walsh
Caroline McCarthy
Claire Tansey
Fiona Manley
Jacqui Enright
Mary Finegan
Sarah McEvoy

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I'll post for Sunday later

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Sunday █ Yellow 09:15 █

Yellow Riders signed up for Sunday
Gerry Reilly
Majella Rafferty
Conor Cosgrave

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Sunday █ White 09:30 █

White Riders signed up for Sunday
Sarah Murphy
Peter Tormey
Bronagh O' Connell

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Saturday █ Early Orange 08:30 █
Saturday 24/7/21

Distance: 100Km Elevation: 1350m

Route :
Dundrum – Ballinascorney – Kippure Bridge – Ballysmuttan Bridge – Sorrel Hill – Hollywood (coffee stop) – Blessington – Manor Kilbride – Ballinascorney – Dundrum

RSVP by Friday lunchtime

█Fintan O'Kelly
█Pat Piesche
█Tom Crotty

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Saturday █ Yellow 09:15 █

The route is a flat 90km over backroads to Maynooth

Yellow Riders signed up for Saturday
█Bryan Minnock
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Saturday █ White 09:30 █

The route is a variation of a Yellow ride from some weeks back.
Enniskerry, Kilmac, over the flyover and up Bohilla Ln, then meanders down to Ashford and Rathnew without using the N11. Home by Newcastle, Kilcoole, Bray.

White Riders signed up for Saturday
Leader: John Collins
█Ann van den Ancker
█Barry Walsh
█Gavin Moore
█Peter McGrath
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Sunday █ Yellow 09:15 █

The route is a flat 90km over backroads to Maynooth

Yellow Riders signed up for Sunday
█Tom Conlon
█Andrew Potts
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Sunday █ White 09:30 █

The route is a variation of a Yellow ride from some weeks back.
Enniskerry, Kilmac, over the flyover and up Bohilla Ln, then meanders down to Ashford and Rathnew without using the N11. Home by Newcastle, Kilcoole, Bray.

White Riders signed up for Sunday
Leader: Tom Crotty
█Caroline Loughlin
█John O'Brien
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Thanks Tom

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa.

I will retire that route.

(Note to self. When you have a decent route, leave it alone. Dont keep tweaking it to pander to the anti N11 brigade).

When we started the 2021 Summer Spins we said that there would be no organised spins at Bank Holidays. Therefore, no events are scheduled in RWGPS for the coming weekend.

2021 was the first year we organised formal Summer spins

125 people have been on club weekend spins over 10 Saturdays and 9 Sundays since mid May, riding about 23 different routes.

Numbers have been declining, which is to be expected at this time of the year, with people on holidays, weekend breaks, family events etc.

We are very grateful for the commitment of those who have volunteered to lead spins this Summer. However, it does not make sense to engage leaders for very small groups.

Therefore we will pause formal spins until we restart for Winter (probably 3rd October).

For the next few weeks I would encourage riders to leverage contacts made since May. Use the forum to organise informal spins. Use the club route library on RWGPS - or pick your own destination and how you get there. Maybe, just head out for a spin, swing past Dundrum to see if there is anybody else there, and hit the road.

The route is the same for Yellow and White
Its a flat 66km with coffee at Celbridge

Tthere are several coffee options in Celbridge
so it should be possible to avoid large groups at one location.

Leonard Kaye and Peter McGrath are white leaders so they can manage dispatch.
(it may make sense to split the groups differently in the morning).

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Saturday █ Yellow 09:20 █

Yellow Group 1 for Saturday
█LUKE GJ POTTER (LEADER)
█Gerry Reilly
█John Ryan
█Miriam O'Donohue
█Greg Wilson

█Peter Naessens
█Marcelo Carvalho
█Adam Jackson
█Cormac Stuart
█Ciaran Canavan
█Andrew Lomax
█Francis Barry


Yellow Group 2 for Saturday
█TOM MCGOVERN (LEADER)
█Brian Lynch
█Stephen Kearney
█Tom Weymes
█Damien Kelly
█Bryan Minnock

█Billy Ryan
█Will Carass
█Sean Quinn
█Rene Ledesma
█Patryk Rejmoniak



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Saturday █ White 09:30 █

White Group 1 for Saturday
█LEONARD KAYE (LEADER)
█Hugh Fitzsimons
█Caroline McCarthy
█Meliosa O Byrne
█Laura McGrath
█Mairead Ryan
█Niall Gannon
█Pat Macken
█Richard Barrett
█Sachin Nagaraja

White Group 2 for Saturday
█PETER MCGRATH (LEADER)
█Tommy Smith
█Damien Kelly
█Pamela Magnier
█Jackie Smith
█Bernadette Tansey
█Aoife Mooney
█John O Brien
█Sean Walsh
█David Dickens

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█ End of Summer - 70km - White
█ End of Summer - 110km - White

█ End of Summer - 70km - Yellow
█ End of Summer - 110km - Yellow

█ End of Summer - 110km - Orange
█ End of Summer - 110km - Red


More details to follow

3 Events are posted on RWGPS
Early Orange. Yellow, White
Please RSVP by Thursday lunchtime.

The route is the same for all
74km with about 1000m ascent.
Out via Rathcoole and Kilteel, for coffee at Blessington
Back via Ballysmuttan and Ballinascorney