Club League 2020: Return of road racing

Hi all,
We are going to trial a return to real-world, outdoor racing. We've scheduled two evenings of racing in Corkagh Park on:

Thursday 23rd July
Thursday 30th July

Because of the COVID-19 situation, things will have to be done a little differently than before. If you want to race, it is very important that you read these guidelines and adhere to them on the night. If people don't stick to the rules, we won't be won't be able to organise any more races this year.

1. Races are open to anyone who has entered to the 2020 club league.
2. Before participating you must complete the Sport Ireland Covid19 eLearning Course
3. Prior to participating in every race, you must complete the Self-Assessment Personal Screening Questionnaire .
4. Pre-registration only. We'll create a registration thread for each race in the Race Registration sub-forum. Sign on closes at midnight on the day of the race (this is to allow organiser time to upload participant names into Cycling Ireland's system). No sign-on on the night.
5. Social distancing is to be maintained. Please maintain a 2m distance between each other before and after the race.
6. Only race participants and the race organisers are permitted on the track during the event. No spectators or people waiting around for their race to start.
7. Please arrive at your designated start time only. If you're early, don't enter track until the participants of the previous race have left the track.
8. Failure to adhere to these rules or any instruction from the race organiser will result in suspension from the league.

This is as new to us as it us to you, so these rules are a work in progress and may be updated. If you plan on racing, please subscribe to this threat to receive any updates.

Registration thread for next week's race is now open

We're still working on creating the league sheet. For handicap groups, you can expect to start in the same group you finished last year. Newcomers will usually be put in the Limit group unless they've raced before.

I've split out the league participants into handicap groups. If you think you've been put in the wrong group let me know.

• Previous participants have been put in the groups they finished last year.
  
• Newcomers have been put in the Limit group.
  
• Anyone returning after a year or more absence has been put in the group they last raced in, unless I didn't recognise their name, in which case they probably ended up in Limit. Let me know if that's the case.
  
• Underage riders are given free entry to the league. I've listed any underage riders who did at least one race last year, but if there's any underage riders who'd like to be added, let me know. Note that U14 and younger riders are limited to participating in time trials and Corkagh Park races. Additionally, we the club would prefer if U16 or younger riders were accompanied to races by at least one parent.

Limit
John Anslow
Henri Bacchiocchi
Hugh Butler
Ronan Byrne
Alan Clarke
Grainne Coghlan
Colm Cronin
Michael Doorly
Robert Edge
Ross Hamilton
Luca Holmes
Louise Keane
Eamonn Kennelly
Zoheb Khan
Anne-Marie Loughrey
Stephen Maguire
Tony Mc Dowell
Carthach McCarthy
John McCormack
Jonathan McKeown
Brian McNamara
Colm McNamara
Daniel Mulcahy
Aisling Ni Neill
Graham Norton
Colin O'Brien
Barry O'Brien
Jonathan O’Brien
Killian O'Brien
Aonghus O'Heocha
Fergal Quinn
John Taylor
Sam Taylor
David Trenaman
Patrick Walsh
Tony Walsh

Semi-Limit
Donal Arundel
Dylan Baker
Colulm Bradley
David Cahill
Jules Cantwell
Richard Cattle
David Claes
Dan Coulcher
Jules De Meester
Yvonne Doran
Kilian Doyle
JP Flynn
Orla Hendon
Martyn Holmes
Niall Kieran
John Lanigan
Damien Long
William Madden
David Maher
Philip McKendry
Mark Mulcahy
David Murnane
Des O'Brien
Gary Somers
Mel Sutcliffe
Paul Tansey

Semi-Scratch
Aidan Collins
Barry Cronin
Byrne Ruairi
Ian Devlin
Gavin Dodd
Robert Dolan
David Forbes
Barry Greene
Dmitri Griffin
Michael Hanley
Alan Hickey
Paul Kane
Darran Kearney
Eddie Lynch
Owen McNamee
Francois Menard-Kilrane
Michael Monahan
Dick O'Brien
Owen O'Flaherty
Padraic O'Flynn
Cahir O'Higgins
Colm O'Neill
Arek Pierozynski
Mark Ryan
Bernard Sellars
Shane Toman
Jonathan Wagner Coffey

Scratch
Eoin Ahern
Valdis Andersons
Jamie Busher
Diarmuid Collins
Odhrán Connors
Ian Donnelly
Luke Ginnell
Bernard English
Manuel Fontan
Ronan Grimes
Neal Hudson
Shaun Kelly
Barry McMahon
Luke McMullan
Brian McNally
Anthony Mulholland
Sean Murnane
Ronan O'Connor
Ken O'Neill
Callum O'Toole
Jack Queally
Andrew Ryan
Graham Scanlon

I've updated the handicap groups above based on some recommendations from the league committee.

Luke Ginnell, Luke McMullen, Ian Donnelly, Shaun Kelly, Andrew Ryan and Ronan O’Connor have all been promoted to Scratch

Padraic O'Flynn and Francois Menard-Kilrane have been bumped up to Semi-Scratch.

Congratulations on the upgrades.

If you haven't entered the league and want to race, we're reopening entry for a week. To race, you must have either a Cycling Ireland Limited Competition or Full Competition Licence.

If you want to join, email me at
Part of the message is hidden for the guests. Please log in or register to see it.
with your name and licence number, and I'll add you. Don't forget to register for each race in the Racing Registration thread too.

Darragh wrote:

Hi Dick,

What are the chances of there being road races this year?

Thanks,
Darragh

We're going to see how the races go in Corkagh Park and decide how to proceed. Road races will be the most challenging thing to organise though.

I couldn't attend myself tonight, so any race reports welcome! No matter the racing and the results, great to have our racing back in the real world.

As always, there's a whole league committee behind the scenes getting things in place, but a big thanks to Dick O'Brien for leading out the sprint on this one and setting it up for Damien Long to run tonight's event (with any helpers also).

Limit/Semi-limit
1 Richard Cattle (SL)
2 Luca Holmes (L)
3 Gary Somers (SL)
4 Des O'Brien (SL)
5 Jules Cantwell (SL)
6 Paul Tansey (SL)

Scratch/Semi-scratch
1 Darren Kearney (SS)
2 Gavin Dodd (SS)
3 Arek Pierozynski (SS)
4 Ruairi Byrne (SS)
5 Dick O'Brien (SS)
6 Colm O'Neill (SS)

The league table is now here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mj3pMirK...3Pc/edit?usp=sharing

Sign on for this week's race is now open. We're running the races in an inverse order to last week.
Scratch/Semi-Scratch are off first at 7pm
Limit/Semi Limit: are off second at 7:45

Same rules as last week. Do no enter the park until it is time for your race. Maintain social distancing before and after the race.

The results are in! Lots of new names in the limit event, while Scratch took revenge after not making the catch last week to take nearly a clean sweep this week!

Limit/Semi-limit
1 Ryan Fox (SL)
2 David Trenaman (L)
3 Oisin May (L)
4 John McCormack (L)
5 Daniel Mulcahy (L)
6 Jules de Meester (SL)

Scratch/Semi-scratch
1 Brian McNally (S)
2 Eoin Ahern (S)
3 Shaun Kelly (S)
4 Jack Queally (S)
5 Neal Hudson (S)
6 Ruairi Byrne (SS)

Lots of movement in the handicap groups, as many of the Limit placers move up, with Daniel Mulcahy going all the way to Scratch!

Oisin May L->SL
Carthach McCarthy L->SL
David Trenaman L->SS
John McCormack SL->SS
Daniel Mulcahy L->S


Updated table at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mj3pMirK...3Pc/edit?usp=sharing

We are going to add a few more races to the league calendar. With the turnout we've had so far, there seems to be an appetite for more. Given the circumstances, we're going to have to be somewhat flexible in terms of the dates and times of races. Not surprisingly, closed circuits such as Corkagh and Mondello are in high demand at the moment and it's hard to book a slot. Secondly, as we go into August, shorter evenings is going to become an issue too. Our next three races will be:

Thursday 6th August: Pine Forrest TT
Monday 10th August: Corkagh Park
Thursday 20th August: Mondello (club road race championships)

Sign on is now open for next's week's TT:

www.orwellwheelers.org/forum/racing-regi...-forrest-tt-august-6

Sign is closed.

Tonight's start list is below.

If you don't know the course, here's the Strava segment.
www.strava.com/segments/646128

it starts just after the cross roads in Glencullen village and runs for a little under 5km, finishing at the top of the drag.

Remember, please don't congregate near the start line. Warm-up elsewhere and only arrive close to your start time. We'll have no holder, so you'll have to clip in at your start time.

Time Name Group Category
19:01 Jack Queally Scratch SEN
19:02 Robie Dolan Semi-Scratch SEN
19:03 Barry Cronin Semi-Scratch SEN
19:04 Zoheb Khan Limit SEN
19:05 Aine Reilly Limit U14
19:06 Killian O'Brien Limit U14
19:07 David Harrington Limit U14
19:08 Luca Holmes Limit U14
19:09 Katie Reilly Limit U16
19:10 Tadhg Killeen Limit U16
19:11 Fergal Quinn Limit SEN
19:12 Tony McDowell Limit SEN
19:13 John Anslow Limit SEN
19:14 John McCormack Limit SEN
19:15 Patrick Malone Limit SEN
19:16 Ross Hamilton Limit SEN
19:17 Eamonn Kennelly Limit SEN
19:18 Jonathan McKeown Limit SEN
19:19 Aonghus O'hEocha Limit SEN
19:20 John Taylor Limit SEN
19:21 Donal Arundel Semi Limit SEN
19:22 Des O'Brien Semi Limit SEN
19:23 Dan Coulcher Semi Limit SEN
19:24 Michael Monahan Semi-Scratch SEN
19:25 Harry McLaughlin Semi-Scratch JUN
19:26 Padraic O'Flynn Semi-Scratch SEN
19:27 Colm O'Neill Semi-Scratch SEN
19:28 Eddie Lynch Semi-Scratch SEN
19:29 Shane Toman Semi-Scratch SEN
19:30 Owen McName Semi-Scratch SEN
19:31 Dmitri Griffin Semi-Scratch SEN
19:32 Cahir O'Higgins Semi-Scratch SEN
19:33 Eoin Kelly Semi-Scratch JUN
19:34 Frank Menard-Kilrane Semi-Scratch SEN
19:35 Peadar Corbally Semi-Scratch SEN
19:36 Neal Hudson Scratch SEN
19:37 Ken O'Neill Scratch SEN
19:38 Shaun Kelly Scratch SEN
19:39 Andrew Ryan Scratch JUN
19:40 Eoin Ahern Scratch SEN
19:41 Luke Ginnell Scratch SEN
19:42 Brian McNally Scratch SEN
19:43 Daniel Mulcahy Scratch SEN
19:44 Niall Kieran Semi-Limit SEN
19:45 Gary Somers Semi-Limit SEN
19:46 Ian Devlin Semi-Scratch SEN
19:47 Sean Bourke McKenna Limit SEN
19:48 Jules de Meester Semi-Limit SEN

Provisional placings for tonight:

Limit
1 Ross Hamilton 08:05
2 Luca Holmes 09:19
3 Jonathan McKeown 09:22
4 Fergal Quinn 09:41
5 Tadhg Killeen 09:43
6 Killian O'Brien 09:47

Semi-limit
1 Niall Kieran 09:14
2 Jules de Meester 09:36
1 Des O'Brien 09:43
2 Dan Coulcher 09:51
3 Donal Arundel 09:55
4 Paul Tansey 11:25

Semi-scratch
1 Colm O'Neill 08:25
2 Dmitri Griffin 08:45
3 Harry McLaughlin 08L47
4 Padraic O'Flynn 08:51
5 Francois Menard-Kilrane 08:54
6 Ian Devlin 08:57

Scratch
1 Brian McNally 07:55
2 Eoin Ahern 08:01
3 Andrew Ryan 08:08
4 Neal Hudson 08:11
5 Luke Ginnell 08:26
6 Jack Queally 08:27