Club Spins

Club Spin 14th (leisure group)

This week's touring group was a small happy group of 3 of the Club's more recent members - myself, Aisling & Aidan, who set off together from Park Vale for a spin to Roundwood. With varying levels of fitness & time demands, we agreed the route suited us all & set off at a respectful distance behind our racing club-mates, ... More
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Club Spin 31st March (2)

While temperatures had dropped considerably it didn’t deter the hardy annuals from taking in some good quality climbing.(Richie, Paul, Michael, Martin and myself.) The first assent of the day was Kilmashogue Lane, scene of the 2011 National Hill Climb Championships. This set the scene for the remainder of the spin!! A ... More
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Club Spin March 31st

Back when St Tiernans C.C. was one of the biggest clubs in the country it was not uncommon for me to be riding in a group that had more female riders than males. You may think that we had hundreds of female members at that time but in reality I was young, single and would often spend my time showing my limited skills to ... More
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Club Spin 3rd March

Back in my day Parkvale was the starting point for our weekly spins so it was great to get back to the Southside of the city to go bike riding down into Wicklow. It was a fine spring morning and a large number of riders turned up for a stretch of the legs. After the usual preliminaries and small talk the groups split into ... More
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Club Spin 18th Feb

After last week's great turnout for the Pre-spin Marshalling course, we once again met in the spiritual home of St. Tiernan's Cycling and Adventure Club. It was an unexpectedly nice morning as we assembled in Park Vale. After belting over, I was too out of breath to participate on the route discussion and was delighted to ... More
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Club Spin Feb 25th

Well what a day for a bike ride. Cool, sunny and dry. Perfect for Wicklow hills. After Mr. Hayden gave a club briefing on appropriate marshalling for the inter club league, the touring or step up group rolled for Enniskerry with a plan to press on to Kilmacanogue and home via Bray. Robbie and Charlie proposed an alternat... More
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Club Spin 10th Feb

The gods frowned upon us again last Saturday with wet and blustery weather for most of the spin which took in Lucan, Kilcock, Enfield, Prosperous, Sallins, Arclough and Newcastle. The early part of the spin was dominated by some of the heavy hitters in the group intent on keeping a very steady pace for the first 25/30km as ... More
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Club Spin 14th Jan

With quite a few riders crying off before Saturday it was not expected that the groups would be as large as last week. However 13 riders assembled outside the Maldron with some old and new faces making up for the missing in action. 10 riders therefore formed the racing group, while Mick Moore led out 3 in the recently ... More