The Irish Cycling Shoe Ep7 S2

we go to all four provinces to tell you the goings on in the world of Irish cyclocross

Ulster : Apollo CC
Connauaght : Yeats County CC
Leinster : Bray CC
Munster : DeRonde van Cork

Photos
Toby Watson
The Belgian Project
Sean Rowe

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Feel it come around with the Rhythm is a sound everybody get down when we give it to [Applause] you oh sh we’re live hello everyone and welcome to the Irish show my name is John Dy and my name is you may have noticed I was reading and Irish Independence great

Pull out there on the Cy cross World Cup that is happening this weekend fa play to J fa play to J uh my only gripe is uh I rode many many Cy cross races my nephew is WR one and he got his picture in the paper should be that and I suppose we

Have to kind of mention the other elephant in the room since Keith brought it to work today he forgot to bring his laptop to work but he true he brought this to work uh where he want Carter love man of the year last week and I’m not proud at all honestly no he

I just want to emphasize club man not Club writer that’s the way it goes teams haven’t got that bad like you know so back to the wonderful world of cyclocross yes big week coming up World Cup next weekend ah fantastic week um it is going to be it’s going to be

Brilliant um the course last year got the seed of approval from the Vander holes um and it’s just going to be great crack um it’s going to be sunny weather and it’s going to be yes and we’ll all be drinking cocktails in the newly appointed um P area excellent excellent

Uh announced our team last week best Lu to them all and also there are some Riders normal writers riding the elite Race So best Lu to Mark Flavin Kevin mccambridge Richie Barry R of Flyn Darr Moore Chris Dawson Paul oy and Stephanie roach and Maria Larin is coming home and

I think she’s bringing a crew with her as well so they’ll all be in their Club jerseys is that correct Club Jersey I willon be representing C Ireland but they’ll be uh class so best of Lu enjoy getting soart from two honorable LS there won’t get last you know figure out who they

Are uh so racing this weekend with a real full weekend of racing we had four races on which is fantastic to see I did some brief research here on an envelope and as you can see we had 466 riters riding across the weekend brilliant fantastic just absolutely fantastic and

The numbers seem to be fairly even across all provinces uh besides the bace of the lens race which they typically 242 in uh but it’s great and more of them pleased absolutely Keep It Coming yeah so up North uh Apollo CC kicked off proing for us they did and we have to

Start with a wonderful and I have to thank the boss the Governor Martin Grimley for this for a wonderful weather report he loves the weather report so uh there have been a fair amount of rain in the lead up to the race with the co muddy in places throughout the race day

There was occasional showers not heavy but enough to increase the amount of mud on the of course Martin thank you that’s absolutely fantastic back now God Almighty EA Campbell from Square Wheels teammate am finigan and Aon Cory from Apollo into third place yeah Jack McAn wins again uh from Billy Lord uh that’s

Johnson I think uh from Brey wheelers and William Sunderland from lisbourne BMX William is consant new this year but he’s been very very good and Billy Lord proven himself to be a far better cyclist than his sorry John H Eva Craig from BC Glendale got the win in under 14s from Eva Baker

And EA kellish from drum Mar cying Club yeah it’s another new name it’s great to see um Karen mccort from VC Glendale uh Rory mul friend of the show and regular on the show from Square wheels and keyn Dy of foil CC in the under4 mail absolutely under 16 uh female EMA herin

Got the win from Aisha Ganon and Cara suling three regular there on the podium yeah it look looked uh pretty horrendous um I think they did the lap the opposite way so do going up a climb but it was um yeah lots of very very very muddy

Pictures uh but mudas didn’t stop Curtis mcke from pretty much winning from the start um in the under 16s uh Scott Bryce Motor Group Rider took it again from Caleb McGreevy of VC Glendale and Elliot McKagan that’s a new name I think yeah Elliot McKagan was third in the under

160 in M well done Lads uh Peter Campbell from Phoenix got the win in the B race and in the females Ali Aliah rafy got the win from on and Alina Wallace from har CC yeah I won from the one from the start is that the way you say it I think

So she went away again not a great picture of our and Anya absolutely covered the M uh great CX stuff uh in the M40 female we had Heather Foley from yat County and the 50 was Trudy Brown from VC Glendale well done all H Darnell more prepar for the World Cup next

Weekend by taking a comprehensive win Dar fly lore he he won by three and a half minutes from gra B and Cameron Henry from inspired was third yeah there was meant to be a great old battle for third Ford fifth and sixth um first onpl Junior was Ashton Moore and the M40 was

Barry Kellis from Jara and Alan Bingham was inspired to win the m5s on and Derek Patterson got the win in the M60 it is great racing and um yeah happy to have all that and um onwards we go to lster lster yes down to host by Bray wheelers

Round four of the L recy cross League I think it was round four and slippy sppy look great P look great venue look fantastic ktie Turner won the under4 race from Nisha bur from Carlo and Kira OK Conor from D wheelers and not to put pressure on anybody cuz we don’t like

Putting pressure on people younger people especially but the most important race in the country ever uh is still going on with the under 14 boys this time James Cunningham I believe took us well yeah he got the win from own Davis uh from bour for about 40 seconds so

Good win there great to see the two boys trading blows Evan burn from car red to put him in third place and it’s all about the fun absolutely I beating your in the under 16 female regular Gro RoR from kulland took it from uh Isabella H from Orwell and Holly

Mcaffrey from C again so um yeah all well represented but sure they would be million of them Jack from car got win for second week in a row H that Connor Regan from K Cullen and dar Barn from gory in 16 boys R yeah the A3 r i mean

The B race uh took part as well uh or took place part as well it did 67 it’s ridiculous that’s the first Corner must have been absolutely brilliant um and who was very very brilliant was Peter Bowden from gory sting club uh mountain biker I think proven that he’s got the

Skills to beat 66 people and win man as you can hear the builders are back in this week so I’m not going to tell him to stop it’s hard enough to get him to show up you know so we’ll keep driving on uh que May got the win in the women’s

Race she bet EA Riley her clubmate from arwell and Stephanie roach from Scott brigh was in third place a big welcome and we’re very very happy to see this name back on the podium uh Faith Robinson um won theun category and she’s back she’s smiling and she’s riding well

So that’s really really good to see and Jean Wilson got the win in the m40s and Deo tool from VC Beachwood got the win in the m50s in the men’s race Dean Harvey from Trinity got the win he took great fun in beating his uh Team Kevin M brid in

Second place which is always good to see and uh Tim rean of all human V came third um pretty good racing um which is yeah which just no surprises from from that crew BR a gra another gory R Sean fer got the the junior prize uh no

Surprises at M40 ronlyn again maybe I should call him Ron fly lowlyn uh took the M40 and no surprises again with Ferg Regan taking the M50 and a real surprise in the M60 oh no sorry no surprise in m6s Johnny theave got his 24th win of the Season Johnny’s not picked for the

El team for the worlds is he he should really he should really be put as the shame like you know uh this week we have a new section we do um loads of lovely photographers are taking loads of lovely pictures of people but um they also

Catch them maybe not looking the best in a new section called I wish I was at home in bed effect should something Darnell Moore looked a little bit depressed over the weekend he really wasn’t happy on his bike he W by 3 and a half minutes what does he look like when

He’s having a bad day on the bike I don’t know I don’t know and poor que May was really um mouth open just taking in all the air and probably wishing she was at home as well even though she took the win yeah and like you I think we

Selected wrong people here everyone we selected has been on myace it should be like me in 24 position going around like I would even make the M60 Podium I was going so bad yesterday I did do my very very best to find a poor picture of him

Couldn’t find it unfortunately as I said to ke I was going so slow I could see the photographers coming you know uh the best one the very very best one I think is of Dean Harvey and Kevin M Cambridge uh Dean had already finished the race

And was walking back along and um poor Kevin was looking a little bit embarrassed poor Kevin poor Kevin so uh hopefully you like that section and if he do we’ll have it again and if you don’t we’ll probably still have it again no fa we take feedback seriously or not

At all uh over in conet great to see the con cross League cracking into gear and our friends in Yates county hosted the latest round did M cin took the Under 12 and the Under 12 boys was K Mavish from Western Lakes yeah lolan Walsh got the

Win from from Green Mount uh in under 14s oh I know who he is now I know he’s that low key and uh Lauren clar from Westport got the way under 14 girls yeah another new name we’re very very surprised to see this one uh the male elas was taken by ad

Darely new writer I say he’s new to he must be new to I’ve never seen him in a must be brand new he looks promising though yeah I think he’s potential he B guy called Kei Raymond from SLO in second place and Trevor Costello who I

Know has wrote a cross race before into t but I feel lad must be good he must be handy that lad Junior race Dar Clark fair play to DAR and the female race was won by Abby Conway well done Abby and in the B race then Julian Kennedy Ripon from slgo got

The win there yeah it’s all good uh great for us in there as well uh typically K looked very mcky and feel PL I think we just slighted a whole Province there any that’s what we do that’s what you’re here for in Monster we were down at dond and car this

Weekend yeah and it was gorgeous and it was sunny and it was good fun and a quick whatever update from Keith absolutely and a quick mention for ran Flavin and Owen Collins thanks for coming up and giving us the thumbs up yeah and forcing ke to take picture of

You know I also had I also had tell me I was useless want to do a bike review on his bike any know sorry that L we’re not scared to be honestly no kind of yeah just a little bit H 12 girls Carol from CA lat be Erica Sheridan from farai and

EO Manny another s sleeve ler massive yeah huge amount of him there which is amazing Colin Murphy from ol Stone C Turk H derivan from Green Mount and Max mcra from far was the Under 12 in under 14 girls or M from Pango car wheelers

Got to win she Lael woods and Rose L from seve L the under 16 girls uh are more centc uh somebody who yeah cast wrer meiri did very very well and Amy Flavin also did very very well in the other 16 girls because it was tricky conditions

Of that switch absolutely uh you from bir SP got the win in under 16s he bet the ever improving Kieran O Sullivan and Shane O’Brien from from myar place um we uh I was riding uh in the same race as uh and as the females and Kate Murphy is

You run course at the same time oh yeah in the female race Kate Murphy passed me so uh she is doing very very very well at the moment uh so case took the elite female ahead of Sally uh drenan and Mary oddon of Blackwater Tri a newcomer great

And Cas was really fly she would have finished fourth or fifth in the B I think wasn’t she yeah she was I can’t say that conditions were tricky at that stage H tricky for cor me of grean to get to win the B de hand from car got he

Like at least 20th Podium place of be for some reason he doesn’t seem to pull off a win I de you messed up one up because you should have finished third and i’ say somebody’s after catching him out and pushing him into a second Rob Williams unattached to third uh we had

Good crack in that race I think there was over 20 of us so um it was really really few new faces as well was there was and that’s kind of what it’s all about so yeah good times great times indeed and the elite race then Elite race was fantastic we had about 30

Riders uh very cont not controversial start but with a crash like which is rare in a Cy race really couple hundred meters into it Tre Lads came down d GA his bike had a big fight with a pole and broke his rear Mech I think did and Dave

Was probably about maybe 10 m away from the pits at the wrong s side which is probably the worst thing to happen um and then um we had and another yeah there was a big backup wasn’t there you you could probably describe this I could

Very much at the back so I saw this happening like you know yeah and poor Robin Seymour then Robin Seymour also crashed and had a mechanical an so was down nearly last position good story about that maravin said um after a big bit of a shamazel he was going to pick

Robin’s wheel just to learn a little bit from and kind of let’s see what lines he takes he is the best ever um probably maybe 4 seconds later Robin run into a po po over just moov wrong wheel to follow anyhow great race uh Richie bar

Got an early Gap Robin got back up to him and then stranger crashed again at the boards which we have no video of and it’s like a sign of the Apocalypse when uh Robin is actually crashing at the boards but he did he actually went out

Over uh but they were at it the it was a joy to watch on uh Richie h on for the win for play to him Rob second and K Toy R a really good race finish in third place uh wrer of the day for me he was absolutely fantastic I thought uh his

Teammate will McConnor got the win in the junior race David g w a great race to come back up from miles down in last position his ninth overall I think and second Junior and Ben o’keef from tar uh was third junior he did fair play to Ben

He um had a fair old Bish warn out of the the the jumps because he tried to do it every time God bless him Ben uh so fair play to you for doing that on D 40 uh the regulars on Garin crew we had Mark Flavin and John felen and Sebastian

H a good race and they were very very very good the whole way true H and m50s Trevor Woods got the win from Jason Travers and Jerry Ry and race organizer mial Cory got the M60 win he did indeed and not only race organizer but he actually didn’t he design to make the

Trophy lovely trophy yeah as well there’s a fantastic wooden trophy which um Richie is going to take home this year so yeah he’s a Class Act absolutely wonderful well done to all in der and thanks very much yeah coming up next uh week we have the World Cup and um we

Have a beer tent where ke’s mind is that but I think H the official figure is 450 of us are going to be on the course on Saturday oh brilliant that is great if you read today Irish independent it mentions I’m racing and it doesn’t mention me at all

Which is no surprise has a picture of my cousin but I’m not B of that my cousin nephew thanks for that J checks in the post um it’s going great it’s going to be fantastic um the crowds will be very good and yeah basically it’s just let’s

Go there and let’s have a bit of crowd it’s going to be a great weekend and as ke we a beeron so we may have a show next Monday or next Wednesday depending on how to be yes uh VC Glendale will corner or will probably be there and um

Yeah let’s let’s see each other um on Saturday and Sunday we look forward to seeing you all up there come say hello see us all the best bye