Date: Saturday 5th September 2020
Closing Date for Entries: 29th August 2020
Organiser: Paul O’Donoghue, Sorrento CC
E-Mail: podluna@gmail.com
Address: 12 Tinnapark, Kilpeddar, Co. Wicklow
Entry Fee: €10 on Eventmaster, plus €1 fees
Optional ACP or Audax Ireland Medals €7 each
1-day Licence if required €5
Entry on Eventmaster: EVENTMASTER-Dying Cow 200
CI Licence, or 1-day Licence required.
Start Point: Bray Wheelers Clubhouse, Bray, Co Wicklow
Start Time: 8am
Facilities: Parking available at start/finish. Due to Covid-19, this is a self-supported event, no access to any indoor facilities at start/finish. Entrants mobile phone numbers can be added to an optional WhatsApp group, and photo proof of passage at intermediate controls can be posted live to the WhatsApp group if riders wish to do so. Otherwise photos can be uploaded after the event, or sent by e-mail. If anyone does not wish to do any of these, they can still send in the receipts etc by post, but this must be done promptly to avoid holding up the event admnistration. David will be at the Finish, but for obvious reasons we want to minimise the handling of various bits of sweaty paper !
The Dying Cow is a a solid 200, not flat certainly, but nowhere near as unrelentingly brutal as the Mick Byrne 200. Starting with a fast run down the coast road from Bray, the route turns inland before Rathnew over the first undulations to a control at Bookey Bridge near Laragh, then over the hills to Greenane, through Ballinaclash and on to Aughrim. Following the river road to Aughavanna Bridge, the hills start increasing in size as you push west to Rathdangan and the control at the Village Pantry. Then comes the first serious challenge of the day – the viciously steep climb by the eponymous “Dying Cow” pub. If you can make it up this without resorting to your granny gear, you are a grimpeur indeed. You have the opportunity to recover on the next stretch through Shillelagh and on to Coolboy before tackling the ascent to the old Wicklow Gap. The remainder of the ride offers few challenges, passing through Arklow, via the control at Woodenbridge, to Rathdrum and Rathnew on the way back up to Bray, with the Windgates Hill as a sting in the tail for the weary.
Food and drinks for self-supply along the route, without any detour, available in Aughrim at 66km, Hackettstown at 92km, then a remote 60km or so to Woodenbridge at 151km, Rathnew at 178km.
Permanent Ride
If riding this route as a Permanent ride on a date of your own choice, please pay the €5 Entry fee to paypal@audaxireland.org and contact David at newtownbabe@icloud.com to make arrangements.
See also
- 1.5 Loughs winter permanent.
- Adrian Nealon 200 (& 100)
- Angel of Mons 200
- Ardattin 200
- Around Down 200
- Audare 200
- Banner 200
- Big Fella 200 (Permanent)
- Birr 200
- Blackwater 200 (Permanent)
- Coastal Classique 200 Permanent
- Crumbling Rocks 200 Permanent
- Dark Hedges 200
- Dawn Raid 200
- Dying Cow 200
- Dying Light 200
- East Wicklow 200 (Permanent only)
- EWC 200
- Excelsior 200 Permanent
- Faceless Monk 200
- Fermanagh 200
- Forgotten Roads 200
- Fratres Cruciferi/4 Towers 200
- Gheimhridh 200 (Winter 200)
- Gimme Shelter 200
- Inner Ring 200
- Kingsmountain 200
- Long Heron/4 Aquaducts 200
- Mayo 200
- Mayo Western Lakes 200/100 MTB
- Mayo XTRM 200
- Mick Byrne 200
- Midlands Meander 200
- Midleton 200
- North Leinster Riviera 200 Permanent
- Nutcracker 200
- Orwell 200
- Pink Elephant 200
- Rock Savage 200
- Tara 200
- Temporary Fever Hospital 200
- Titanic Torr 200
- Tubbercurry Offroad 200
- Vanishing Battalion 200
- West Wicklow 200 Permanent
- Wolfe Tone West Cork 200
- Wolftrap 200
- Yola 200