We are excited to announce we will be holding a 20km/40km TT at Newry!
Date: Sunday Sept 10th, 2023 Location: Newry Start Time: 9:00am (Registration 8:30am with Kevin S). Estimated Finish Time: 11:130am Discipline: Time Trial Culture: Race but open to all ability levels! Approximate Distance: 20km and 39km
Course Route
We will target to park at Elma Township Pubic school.
Our usual road bike and aero categories will be in place:
Aero:
Anything goes (No UCI restrictions)
Road:
No clip on aerobars, no invisible aerobars/hands draped over the tops, no TT disc rear wheels, no TT specific helmet, (Aero road helmets are fine, skin suits are fine).
All bike types are welcome. If you have clip on aerobars or want to use invisible aerobars / hands draped over the tops on your road bike you can, you’ll just be slotted into the aero category.
If you have specific questions prior to your ride please ask here.
As with all TTs please give us your projected finish time so I can seed the start list appropriately. I will most likely start everyone at 1 min intervals…but may change that to 2 min depending on numbers and speed of riders.
Congratulations everyone, you did excellent work on this trying course. Driving the course during set-up I could see this wasn’t going to be a blazing fast course with the undulating road. However, you all dug deep and produced fine results… many of you coming in well under your estimated time.
We had 8 people run the 39km TT and one person the 20km course. The course is an undulating out-and-back road from Newry to Brussels and back. Traffic was well behaved, wind was non-existent and the temperature was cool but comfortable. It was a perfect day to show your legs who the boss is.
I has been a great honour to offer my services to everyone in their efforts to improve themselves. I look forward to next season… although you’re all welcome to come out the Velodrome and give pursuiting and TT’s a try this season.
Have a wonderful winter and we’ll see you in the spring.
Kevin
It was a great day and thanks everyone for coming. I really enjoyed the course and parking at the school was great as we could easily warmup without going on public roads. Thanks for timing and course setup Kevin!
