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Jeasus me feet, me feet I cant feel me feeeeeeeeet!!!!! Well it was a wet one, so I had arranged to meet Ray Doyle, Owen Culle, Kev Stanley, Richard Lynch, and Niall Quinlan at 9am at Taylors!!!!

Ray Doyle no show Owen Cullen no show Kev Stanley no show Ray Doyle no show!!!!

Richard was there and Niall no shoe Quinlan shoe'd but he brought one road and one mtb shoe ahahahahahaha!!!

So myself and Richard headed off into the freezing monsoon, from Taylors and up to Kilmashouge here is the route you may not know the names of all the trails and I have also made up a few just to confuse you hahaha!!!

Taylors Kilmashouge to the top
down Toms (we usually climb this)
Up goobers heartattack to the fire road (this is the sharp steep climb to the tarmac road)
road to ariels turn right
go straight up towards fairy take the 1st left turn you come to and follow trail to Metro upper
metro upper to the end and turn right onto fire road stay on this till the end ito the forest trail on left
follow this trail out onto fire road turn left (this is fire road you use coming from freds field)
follw this fire road and take1st left onto tree alley (my new name for this trail) follow this to the top and onto fire road.
Fireroad all the way back to ariels and onto metro lower
metro lower to the bottom and across to top of dream track, across the back of the Blue light all the way across to the barrier and onto the fire road.
Fire road climb all the way back up to the ariels and onto metro lower again.
metro lower half way down turn off left down to tarmac road, into forrest and follow trail down onto worc trail onto fire road.
fire road to toms and onto toms climb (switch back climb to fireroad)
Fire road back to ariels turn right
basically do the same route you did earlier onto metro upper and to the end of metro and fire road back to ariels
past ariels onto tarmac road head down tarmac road to the massive boulder and turn left towards kilmashouge
fire road to the top of toms climb and go down this again and up to toms stay on fire road to car park and down walkers trail to lower car park and out the gate.
Done!!!

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I know half you are lost from Taylors but dont worry, next week on Sunday i will do the loop again with whoever fancies it, I will wait but within reason, we wont be racing it, its a steady non stop spin.

Im very tired now!!!! Did I mention Ray Doyle was a no show....yeh ohh ok!!!
Smithers

**** me that looks like a dreary spin..no wonder Ray, Owen and Kev Stanley stayed under the one duvet.
Only joking kiddo, fair play to you for coming up with that, if everybody in the club came up with a loop like that, I wouldn't be stuck running a Sunday spin, so why not make this next weeks Sunday spin and as you are the spin leader, you pick the time and starting place. I wouldn't have went this morning myself as I can't face 3 Rock anymore, unless its to pass through..
I will do one the following week in Djouce..how does that Sound ? the Following week maybe Richard will take us on a spin he likes..

That's a plan buddy!!! Yeh Ray Doyle never showed up for the spin!!!

Genuinely have never been so cold on a bike as I was today! Got soaked to the skin on the way up to Taylor's and just got colder and colder! Eventually I couldn't feel my hands or feet at all! Couldn't hold the bars properly or even operate the thumb shifters! Eventually gave up and cycled home! Where the **** are my winter boots and gloves?

Smithers is working on a great loop which will hold up really well for steady winter training .... nice one Darragh!

That won't have done much for my post-cold recovery!

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Even with winter boots my left foot fell off and my right thumb felt like I hit it with a hammer. Mental wet day lads

in fairness, you all wear too many clothes !

is it true Ray did't turn up for the spin ?

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That's the first time in my life I'm accused of that u could be right but I only had one pair of gloves on