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DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Report here from the Women’s Cycling Weekend held at Avon Ri, Blessington. Great weekend of activity, really enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The format involved a spin Saturday morning for roadies or mountain bikers followed by lunch and workshops. Cycling’s such a technical sport! Jeez thank God running involves one foot in front of the other! Sunday morning was another long spin followed by lunch and home. While day 1 may have been difficult to organise such a large number of people (about 60 people) into the correct levels, the next day things settled and people were able to guage better where they should be. The group with the kids suited me just fine and the instruction and advice given were brilliant. Fair play to the instructors; they did a great job and had lots of patience!
The nutrition talk by Beth McCluskey turned out to be one of the most popular parts of the weekend with tonnes of advice and questions answered. It’s one of those subjects we all think we know everything about (sports people love to eat right?!) but I think we all learned a hell of a lot and were surprised at how much!
If you were there let us know what you thought of the weekend. (Big thanks to Jackie O for a loan of the flippers! (nothing to do with cyling!!) and to Jenny McCauley for her advice for my sore hands!)
-Aisling-
Latest Comments (3):
Hi Aisling,
delighted you enjoyed the cycling, hopefully you’ll join us again! This saturday, Bray Wheelers are having a beginners Ladies spin from Bray to Ashford and back, followed by info on bike maintenance, we would love to see lots of women there, if anyone is interested details are here: http://www.braywheelers.com/home.htm
Hope to see you out on the road (or the trails!) and that your hands are ok after the weekend!
cheers, jenny.
Hi Jenny, thanks for letting us know about the spin, it’s always good to know what’s going on.
My hands are fine, thanks! I just need to toughen up a bit!
Photos from the MTB training here http://picasaweb.google.com/mccluskey.beth
great weekend - it was amazing to see so mnay women on bikes :)
the next womens MTB training day will be the weekend after easter so save the date!
Beth
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