Club news May 09

The month of May kick starts one of the busiest month of the season with leagues and leisure events taking place on a nightly and weekly basis, keep a look out on the Connacht calendar on the club website for details. www.westernlakescc.com

Club League

The club league has got of to a flying start with 62 riders taking part so far, remember this is a league for all abilities, so if you think you know someone who likes a bit of competition then ask them to have a go at one of the events.

The next race will be on Thursday June 11th , sign on at the garden centre on the West road (Louisburgh) out of Westport. See full list of dates on club web.

The Mayo league.

This league caters for most abilities and age groups, This Thursday the 7th of May Rd 3 of the mayo league takes place, sign on at the Hall in Partry from 6.30pm race starts at 7.15pm sharp at Srah school.

An Post Ox mountain challenge.

This Sunday the 10th of May the 1st event of the An Post leisure cycle series takes place in Sligo.

There are 3 distance on the day to cater for all abilities, ranging in distances of 10k, 60k and 160k, the club will have members at this event so if you are interested in joining them contact Mary Mulchrone.

The Mask Challenge.

Only 10 days to go to one of the club’s main events of the year, The Mask route is one the most popular used training spins each weekend nearly all of the club’s members have done it, now we are trying to get everyone to have a go, if you can invite one or two people and this will help to make this event a real success, the main aim is to promote cycling locally , but we are catering for the more experienced cyclists as well by including the Lough NaFooey loop.

The proceeds of this event will go to the Lough Mask life boat, a very worthwhile local cause.

This event would be good preparation for the club’s other big leisure event the Polkadot challenge on Sunday July 19th.

Mobile phone collection.

Members of the cycling club, the Scouts and the boxing club are still collecting mobile phones for a defibrillator for the cycling centre, if any of you know where we can get more please let myself know or get them dropped into the Tourist office on New St.

If everyone tries we can get the quota of 500 phones.

BMX Nights.

The club will hold BMX training sessions every Monday night from Monday the 11th of May from 7-9pm, the aim is to get young and old kids using the track, bikes can be hired but they are on a first come first served basis.

It is also hopes to organise a BMX open day on Saturday June 13th where the club will organise a series of races throughout the day for every age group from U10 up to seniors.

Connacht MTB League.

Another league this time for the fat tyres, the league comprises of 8 events, the 1st was on April 23rd in Moorehall woods, the next one is on May 21st in Clarinbridge, sign on from 6.30pm with racing starting at 7pm, open to all age groups, see www.connachtcycling.com for more details.

The Bog week races.

Western Lakes holds 2 races on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of May in Renvyle / Tullycross, in conjunction with the bog week festival.

JJ Flaherty is organising the events and would appreciate any held possible on the weekend.

The club hopes all our racing members will be in attendance to try and win one of the events.

The Mayo 200 

This event is another leisure event and takes place on May 24th in Ballyhanuis

The Wicklow 200

This year the club will have at least 10 leisure riders partaking in the Wicklow 200 on June 7th, contact Fergal for more details. See www.wicklow200.ie