NORTH DOWN CYCLISTS STARTING TO SHOW FORM After a quiet and unadventurous start to the season, North Down riders are beginning to show a bit of form both on the road and cross country. At last weekend’s Surgenor Cup at Randalstown Paul Ferguson, one of the club’s most consistent riders of recent seasons, took ninth place in a race won… Read more »
NORTH DOWN RIDERS ACTIVE ON TWO FRONTS Mention the word March and you could be excused for assuming that we have, at last, reached springtime. However, North Down’s cyclists have learned that the calendar is an unreliable guide to the actual conditions they are likely to face on the roads. Last weekend was the second of the new racing season… Read more »
CYCLISTS GEAR UP FOR NEW SEASON The biting, cold wind and flurries of snow this week can only mean one thing ; the start of the cycle racing season has arrived. Photographs of last weekend’s John Haldane Memorial road race at Hilltown showed the riders dressed more for a polar expedition than a bike race but at least the weather… Read more »
Training and Nutrition Talk Wed. March 8th at 7.30 Darren McWilliams Will be giving a talk on training and nutrition in the Club Rooms all welcome.
While the next generation of North Down champions are riding the boards in the shelter of the Manchester velodrome, most of their clubmates will be hitting the open roads. Last weekend’s reliability trial around the Ards peninsula drew a huge turnout of well over 100 riders keen to get in a fast pre season run in decent weather and on… Read more »
NORTH DOWN CYCLISTS PREPARE FOR NEW SEASON With a new cycle racing season less than four weeks away, North Down Cycling Club members have been taking advantage of the unseasonably dry weather recently to get in some training miles. February is normally the month for reliability trials, long runs of between 50 and 70 miles, open to all riders, which… Read more »