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DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) In the wake of Eoin Keith’s demolition of the existing Wicklow Way running record, right at this moment mountain biker Ryan Sherlock is attempting to do the same with the cycling record of the same route. He announced his attempt over on the IMRA forum, and you can follow his progress on Twitter!!
From Eoin Keith:
For the record, the cycling record currently stands at 12:04, and is held collectively by Beth McCluskey, Peter O’Farrell, Paul Mahon and myself. I’ve never heard of anyone else who has managed to cycle the whole WW in one go, and indeed I’ve only heard of one other attempt.
Its good to finally see someone have a good go at taking this record. Its very much there to be broken.
For those hill-runners that don’t know Ryan, he is one of the best mountainbikers in Ireland, and is the current Irish Marathon (long distance) champion. I’m expecting him to set a record that will be extremely hard to beat.
Best of luck Ryan and to Melanie Spath providing support!!
-Aisling-
Image from Rocky2007.
Latest Comments (5):
One of the tweets about half an hour ago:
“Ryan arrived after a gruelling 8h 17min 19sec.he says: “I’m never doing that again!schlomp city!”
Well done!!
And she’s BACK! :-) yay!
Who’s twitter was that on?
http://twitter.com/ryan_sherlock
It was Ryan’s twitter! Great use of Twitter isn’t it?
And yes I’m back…:-)
Good stuff!!!
It took a while but I have three reports up about the ride. All of them are available here: http://ryansherlock.blogspot.com/search/label/wicklow%20way
Would I do it again? Maybe - but it would be in drier conditions and I would want to do it faster :) The final 40km or so is not particularly fun (although it was really nice to see a part of the country I seldom visit) but my reports go into better detail.
The Twitter thing worked well too - next time we will twitter pictures and GPS locations too.
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