WICKLOW 200 Repeaters - Training Group

WICKLOW 200 Repeaters

This thread is for questions and updates related to the Wicklow 200 Training group for REPEATERS


Sign up criteria:
• Open to members who have completed a WW200
• Already able to do 80km plus, comfortably
• 10 week programme from 7 April to event on 10 June
• Saturday mornings at 08:30 sharp in Lidl Car, park Dundrum
• Led by experienced leaders

If you signed on at the Leisure Launch, 12th March, you are guaranteed a place, however to complete the process you must register on the link below.


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Leonard
On behalf of the Leisure Sub Committee

Hi all.
There has been great interest in the training groups this year with 156 people signing up at our launch night last Monday.

For those people, your place will be held until midnight on Sunday 18th March.

If you are one of the 156 and haven’t done so already, you now need to secure your place by signing up online.

If you have not signed up by Sunday we will assume you have changed your mind about joining a group and we will remove your name from Monday night’s list.

The Leisure committee are currently finalising leaders for each training group and as some of those are filling up fast, they may have to close soon.

For now however you can still join a training group at the following link:

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On behalf of the Leisure Committee

ALL TRAINING GROUPS ARE NOW FULL

A waiting list is now in operation; please log your interest here.







Leonard,
On behalf of the Leisure Committee,
and the Training Group Leaders

Hi Leonard, I was just wondering if there are any details yet on the first couple of training sessions? I want to make sure to block out my calendar as much as possible so I can make as many as I can.

Hi Ruth

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Leonard

In conversation on our third training spin today, the topic of how long it 'should' take to do the Wicklow 200 came up. To provide some quantitative data on this fascinating topic, attached is a histogram I got out in 2015. It shows the number of riders that year who finished in each 6-minute (0.1 of an hour) time slot between the fastest (7.3 hours) to the slowest (14 hours).

Back then, some may remember, the W/200 organizers ran proper time checks AND published the times for the entire field (identified only by event numbers) on their website. (They also issued decent, personalised finishers' certs instead of, or as well as, rubbishy little bits of tinware. Don't get me started).

Anyway, you can see from the data that the great majority of finishers - ordinary joes and jills - fell within the range 8-and-a-half to 12-and-a-half hours. (Remember that these are elapsed times - you need to add 1 to 1-and-a-half hours to estimate actual on-bike times). Faster, and you're into super-person territory. Slower - well, who are we to sneer.

Hope some of you get some fun from this.

Sorry - of course, it should read 'subtract 1 to 1-and-a-half hours to estimate actual on-bike times'
Tom

PS My own elapsed time that year was 10.4 hours. For a high-performing bunch like the Orwell membership, pleny of scope for sneering (not, of course, that anyone ever did).
TW

Thank you Tom I now feel slightly different about the tinny medal on my wall of mediocrity. :)

For anyone who missed doing the 3 Hills training spin (Wicklow Gap-Baltinglass-Sl. Maan-Shay Elliott) a small Yellow group - 3 starters so far - plans to do it this coming Thursday.
Ideally an odd number, to maximise car-sharing, but you can always drive down alone!

NB starting and finishing at Glendalough visitors car park, NOT Roundwood. Meeting time tbc.