2012 Cuchulainn XC MTB League

[niall27]

2012 Cuchulainn XC MTB League

Registration Open

Members and Visitors please use this link to register for MTB League

Starting May 8th we’ll be running our XC MTB league every Tuesday night for 12 weeks.

The league is open to club members and visitors from other clubs who hold CI licences of at least Club Competition level. Visitors are more than welcome and can compete for the visitor’s prize.

All races will be held at our Bellurgan Park course – with the occasional slight modification of lap route and lap count.

We will also include some Special Stages to make things a bit more interesting. These will be confirmed at a later date. One of the races will also incorporate the Louth XC MTB Championships.

Tuesday May 8th will be a 1 lap time trial – setting off at 30 sec intervals - to determine handicaps – with league points being awarded for the fastest 50% of the field home. We encourage everyone who intends to race to come and register their handicap, as it will determine your starting position for the next race.
Race points will be awarded for all places up to and including DNF in subsequent races.
Your best 10 races over the series will count towards final total.

We’re going to use assigned time keepers to oversee each race. Time keepers cannot race on their assigned night and will be awarded generous league points for their troubles. Volunteers for time keeping positions are welcome; we only need one per race, so please post your interest in this role. If we don’t have enough interest we’ll be forced to assign from registered riders. These points will count towards your final tally if they are in your best ten scores, so you might need them!!

We’re using race timing apps – either on tablet or laptop to record times – so timing will be accurate and results will be well presented when posted on site.

Fastest lap recorded over the main course throughout the series will receive a separate award and bragging rights for the year of course!

For beginners who want to take part and are not familiar with the course – experienced club members will be in Bellurgan on Tuesday May 1st (maybe other nights that week – post if this is the case) to go round the course and assist with any queries about course, advice etc.

The league will run through the summer right up to the Bull Raid so it’ll be a great way to get out and train, familiarise yourself with the course and meet other bikers and have bit of friendly competition.

We hope to have good numbers this year and encourage everyone to come and give it a go – bit of craic if nothing else.

Please also post your interest in the league in this thread.



2012 MTB League Details

Date	Event	Course	Route	Laps
08/05/2012	Time Trial	Bellurgan	Full Lap	1
15/05/2012	Race	Bellurgan	Full Lap	2
22/05/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
29/05/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
05/06/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
12/06/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
19/06/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
26/06/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
03/07/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
10/07/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
17/07/2012	TBC	Bellurgan
24/07/2012	TBC	Bellurgan

[Chris Quinn]

Count me in! Stick me down for a timekeeper night too!

Can I add to Niall's post and say that we need to build up a database of entrants for the timing software, so if you intend on coming, stick your name in! It'll save us a major headache before each race!

Thanks,

Chris

[graemesmyth]

Good man Niall sign me up ,i wont make them all with work, but I'll do a timekeeper night too

[jamesmcg]

im the same. ill miss half of them with work. so ill do timekeeping too. ill be there the 15th and every second week after that.

[rayryan]

Count me in also.

If there is a specific date people want To do the timing, let us know, also one of the timing apps we will use is call "ichrono pro" , if anyone has an iPad down load the app, its 2.49 or something but it works great.

Ray

[stu]

Stick me down Niall, I'll timekeep as well..... it might be the only points i'll get!!!

[edster1970]

I'll give it a shot and will also do the timing.

[terrymc]

Chalk me down Niall, I'll also do a timekeeper night need all the points a can get ;o)

[tonyk]

Put me down if you hav't already. should make most of them. timing aswell.

[Michael Wilson]

Stick my name down there too!! :-) and timekeeper ...

[Michael Wilson]

Ray, just installed that app on my ipad, it's pretty impressive!!

[garymorton]

count me in lads ok can by any change i get away early at the TT have a meeting to get 2 in Newry thanks

[arnie]

Count me and fergus in not sure how many rounds we will fit in but we will see how it plans out !
I will also be there tomorrow from around half six to guide anybody around who wants to know my magical tips of the trail !

[griff]

some of our club members would be interested in da cuchulainn mtb league, we have a couple of underage riders who are also interested from u14 up , regards team MoCo MTB

[Chris Quinn]

Right then, as per the link in Niall's first post, the registration for the league is now open.

Anybody who wants to race needs to register so as we have a record of names and contact details etc. This applies to Cuchulainn members and visitors alike. There is a small entry fee of €10 each for visitors for the whole league.

@griff: your members are welcome to join in and they can register at the link below. We haven't spoken about underage classes yet, but if we get interest we can do that.

garymorton: you can get away early if you need to!

I'll be posting on other club's sites to drum up interest from them too.

dundalkcycling.membergrip.com/membergrip/events/event.xhtml?id=100072