Cycling’s Roll of Honour The North Down Cycling Club will be honouring its prize winners at next Saturday night’s social event in the Pickie Bowling Club. As mentioned in this column last week, riders such as Neil McKenna, Paul Swenarton and Stuart Henry grabbed most of the headlines in open events this season, but there were many others who achieved… Read more »
Cycling Club’s Winter Programme The very successful North Down Cycling Club winter programme continued last Friday night with an in-depth talk by Commonwealth Games manager Alistair Irvine. Once again it was standing room only as Alistair shared his considerable knowledge of how to optimise performance through perfecting the set-up of racing cycles. To help him explore the myths and the… Read more »
The Italian Job A couple of weeks ago William Barclay and Paul Ferguson made the trip to Como, in Northern Italy to race in the Gran Fondo Giro di Lombardia. This event takes in 145 kms of racing in one of the most beautiful (and hilly) parts of the world.
Turbo Terrific! The first of the winter’s turbo sessions under the guidance of sports scientist Darren McWilliams was a fantastic success last Wednesday night. It’s a long time since the clubrooms have been such a hive of activity. Before the evening commenced, Darren gave a short talk on maintaining fitness throughout the winter and the importance of setting specific training… Read more »
Ciaran Big Wheel in Cycling At last week’s North Down AGM, local architect Ciaran Andrews became the ‘big wheel’ in local cycling, taking on the mammoth task of Honoury General Secretary and Chairman. However, as an experienced committee man Ciaran clearly has the expertise and the acumen to carry off the role. He takes over the position of secretary from… Read more »
Trip to the Tip As a recently retired veteran cyclist with North Down Cycling Club, Noel Boyce has been clocking up many miles on his bike, taking him all over Northern Ireland. However, with the summer being such a wash out, Noel felt that he had really missed out. He explains that, ‘It's not that I am a fair weather… Read more »