Epic Club Races

I’ve spent pretty much every Thursday evening since May up in the leadmines just outside Dublin at the Epic club races. They came to an end last week, and Thursdays just wont be the same.

Every week was different, the weather, conditions of the track, the riders taking part etc all adding to some great racing. In the dry and warm, the course in amazing, so fast. You don’t get a seconds rest between powering through the singletrack and hammering up hills, made all the more difficult by the fact that there’s always someone desperate to catch you from behind, and somebody else within sight in front. In the wet (most of the time!) the trail is one of the best around, it held up to a wet Irish summer really well. Still, it makes for different racing – mud, slippery rocks and roots there to catch you out.

Always good to catch up with people afterwards, hear tales of different people’s race, the crashes, punctures and finish line sprints. Time to dust off the nightlights now and brace myself for those wet, cold winter evenings!