PODIUM PLACES FOR NORTH DOWN YOUTH CYCLISTS Over the past two seasons North Down Cycling Club's youth riders have been consistently in the medals at provincial and national championships and the trend continued last weekend at the Northern Ireland Open time trial championships, hosted by the NICF at a windy Dunsilly course. Top honours went to Rachel Mitchell who won… Read more »
CYCLISTS CRANK UP THE ACTION May is traditionally a busy month for North Down cyclists. Weekly open races are supplemented by a series of cyclosportive events each weekend, while midweek slots are taken up with the club's own domestic programme of time trials and road races. Add to this the regular Thursday night run for leisure cyclists and you have… Read more »
Big thank you to all who turned up for the first club race of the year. Perfect weather, warm, sunny and calm though I thought for a while at the start that the cloud of lime dust that began to float up the road from the field where it was spread was going to be a problem. Fortunately it soon… Read more »
TESTING TIMES FOR NORTH DOWN CYCLISTSWith most of North Down's road men enjoying a short period of recovery after the Tour of the North, club training in Majorca, time trialling and the Tour of the Glens cyclosportive have been the focus of riders' attentions over the past ten days. The club's first 10 mile time trial of the season gave the… Read more »
POSITION NAME TIME Standard 1 D McMackin 23:55 2 L Curran 2533 3 P Downie 27:59 ( Novice gold standard ) -subject to dope test. 4 G Swenarton 28:06 5 E Blayney 28:51 ( Novice silver standard ) 6 M Geddis 29:03 ( Novice silver standard ) 7 N Boyce 29:11 ( Novice silver standard ) 8… Read more »
TOUR OF THE NORTH COMES TO TOWN The cycling enthusiasts of North Down CC have had plenty to keep them busy in the past week. The club's very active touring section had its first outing but the main event was, of course, the P&O Irish Sea Tour of the North, Northern Ireland's premier stage race. Blessed with dry weather for… Read more »