Gorey 3 day road race 2016

[Dorisj]

Well done roadies! you're nearly convincing me to do it next year. Good to see the weather holding out also.

[Alfie]

Stage three done and dusted weather was good and only three big crashes to avoid!
Pretty quick at times today as it's mostly flat and the gaps at the front were small so there were a few attacks which the national junior squad (who were very impressive) had to drive to bring back
Big crash at 30k which gene got caught up in and failed to get back to the bunch then another at about 15k to go which myself and Niall managed to avoid
Legs felt ok today so spent most of the day on or around the front and decided to go to the front through blessington to avoid any pile ups at traffic islands or roundabouts drove on til 2k to go and started to drift back as I'm no sprinter was cruising in behind the pellet on when a guy from ushers says 'another gorey done' when boom big pile he ate shit I managed to narrowly avoid it by along sideways across the road and mounting the grass bank to ride around the bodies chain came off, got going and rolled in behind the bunch!
Glad to have came away from the weekend having not hit the Tarmac
With two narrow escapes 196 started and only 126 signed on thismorning for the last stage not sure how many finishers there were, definitely seemed a lot worse carnage-wise than previous years I've ridden it
Niall finished unscathed too
Now back to the important business of mtb

[Alfie]

Meant say big thanks to oscar and Erica for coming down to shout at us and also to dermo and canto for looking after us in the neutral service car and to Richie close and gene who brought our bags down and back up

[Mcnipples]

Well done Alfie Niall and everyone else who raced. Id love to try something like this but way too scared. Fair play

[OZ]

Fair play lads.

[Dorisj]

Well done lads, sounds like 1 crash too many. It's always good to finish on a high and not hitting the deck!
So, we're all road racing next weekend?

[ericag]

Well done guys!

[DaveMeredi]

Great stuff lads. Frankly, it sounds like road racing requires advanced MTB and CX skills (and it sounds bloody tough) well done.