Sligo to Letterkenny Charity Cycle will be held on Sunday 5th July at 11.30am.



The 18th Annual Sligo to Letterkenny cycle will take place on Sunday next.Some 150 cycles will take part in the fundraiser for Cancer Research which is organised by Letterkenny newsagent Paddy Delap.The event has raised over €350,000 so far.

Bikes will be loaded at Charley's Cafe tomorrow Saturday between 5.30 and 7pm.The cyclists will be bussed from Letterkenny at 9am on Sunday from the Community Centre.
The first finishers will arrive back in Letterkenny from 2.30pm.It is not a race and all levels of cycling abilities will be accomodated.Back-up service will be there to pick up any cyclists having problems.
For more information please contact Paddy Delap at Clarkes Newsagents Phone 07491-22240.


Causeway Cycle Challenge
Just to let you and your club know that Bann Wheelers CC in Coleraine are organising a charity cycle ride in order to raise funds to enable the Coleraine Blind Centre to purchase several tandem bicycles to be used by their volunteers to take blind and partially sighted people cycling. This event, the Causeway Cycle Challenge, is being held on 26th July 2009, starting and finishing at Coleraine Rugby club. In order to encourage participation of cyclists of all abilities we are offering two routes, one at 30 miles and one at 60 miles. These routes will take in Coleraine, Ballymoney, Dervock, Bushmills, Ballycastle (60 mile route only), Bushmills, Portrush and Portstewart. Posters have been printed and you will see these appearing in shops, fitness centres, etc. over the next few days in the North Coast area.(I have attached one to this mail). Minimum donation in order to participate is £10. We are also encouraging participants to raise additional sponsorship. I have attached a sponsorship form for you to download and print off. I have hard copies of these forms also. If you want some let me know. We would like as many of our neighbouring club members as possible to support this event. Can you also encourage any leisure cyclists or mountain bikers you know to take part also. Maybe encourage work colleagues to put a team together to enter this. Details are also on our club website, www.bannwheelers.com , and sponsorship forms are available there to download also. Bann Wheelers CC would really appreciate any support your club can give to this event. Cheers, Derek McDonald Secretary Bann Wheelers CC



All Ireland National Championships...Elite and U23....Dunboyne Co.Meath
North Pole were represented in the National Cycling Championship at Dunboyne on Sunday 28th June by Mark Buchanan.
Mark finished the 168k.course in 3hrs 57mins(over 26mph) coming in at 57th position of the 103 finishers. Nicholas Roche was a decisive winner of the race.




Ronan McLaughlin whose parents Karl and Sandra are active members of North Pole Cycling Club also had
a very good day getting a Silver Medal in the U23 Race.He finished in 6th place overall in the Elite Race in a time of 3hrs 53mins for the 168k.course.


Marcus Christie was unlucky to be outsprinted by Charles Prendergast from Mayo Wheelers for the Junior Gold Medal.Marcus had led for most of the race and he and Charles had built up a lead of 4 minutes from the rest of the field.Marcus got silver for his efforts and possibly learned alot from the experience.








Charity Cycle in aid of St.Mura's School on Sunday 28th June.


Organiser Patrick Mc Callion welcomes International Cycling Professional Philip Deignan to Buncrana.
Over 100 cyclists took part in the 50k.charity cycle.

more photos on.......
http://picasaweb.google.com/dermott.sweeney/CharityCycleInAidOfStMuraSNS?feat=email#









Inter-Club League 2009

Club	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Total Points
North Pole	46	57				103
Foyle	28	41				69
Roe Valley	46	22				68

Next round is 7pm on 15th July in Gortnaghey between Limavady and Dungiven.
25 mile APR race.
It is important that we have a good turn-out that day.










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