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Sunday was the first round of the Irish NPS series, hosted by IMBRC in Slade Valley. The recent schizophrenic weather worked in our favour, making for an incredible days racing on dry, fast trails. There was a good turnout for … Continue reading →

A trip to York for Easter last weekend coincided with the first Nutcracker race, a new mountain bike series in the North of England, so I made the most of a good opportunity for some hard training. I turned up … Continue reading →

A couple of pics of my new bike, it even has my name on it. At home for Easter so took it up to Dalby Forest on Saturday to ride the world cup course – PDG! Lovely and light, handles … Continue reading →

Over the winter I joined WXC race team in the UK, and outside of Ireland (where I’ll still represent UCD), I’ll be racing for them for this season. I’ve been meaning to write a post about it for ages but … Continue reading →

The mountain bike season finally got underway last weekend when I went over the Sherwood Forest for the first round of the British National Points Series (BNPS), a UCI C2 race. I knew a lot of people didn’t like the … Continue reading →

This post should be titled ‘training racing’ or ‘stupid racing’ depending on how you look at it. It was the first round of the Irish women’s national league, so a separate race for the girls with a smaller bunch, making … Continue reading →

As part of my training building up to the start of the mountain bike season in a few weeks time I’m scheduled to do a few road races. So rather than make the most of dry trails, amazing blue sky … Continue reading →

After managing to avoid it all year I finally gave in to cyclocross on Sunday and took part in the Irish national championship race in St Annes park. I raced there last year and really enjoyed the course, and after … Continue reading →

Had a couple of dodgy training spins recently starting with an incident with a car. Having survived 3 hours of ‘dangerous’ mountain biking I was coming home through Dundrum and a guy decided to turn left without looking sending me … Continue reading →

I’m just back from my annual international ‘training camp’ in Yorkshire (aka Christmas holidays!) – and since its home of the next race on the World Cup circuit it really is a pro training destination. Dalby Forest is the closest … Continue reading →