Todays learnings , 29 into 26 doesn’t go ….more later.<\/p>\n
MY ROUTE<\/a>\u00a0slight alteration to normal , Kenny will provide the “proper” link later<\/a><\/p>\n Great turnout today of nearly 40 for the 8th Slieve Martin Slaughter , billed as 4 different ascents of Slieve martin on a bike, although after today it would be more correct to say with<\/strong> a bike . The first lap ( sallys yard\/ gully) went well and with a few early birds getting a head start there was not too much hanging about on the top for lap 1 .\u00a0\u00a0Only a few fallers to entertain the paparazzi on the gully even though it was like ice . Mr K tried to tell me he rode it perfectly , meaning he rode it so slow that time nearly stopped , i was able to use a long exposure on the camera to get his photo as he passed by.<\/p>\n Lap 2 Fiddlers , stone ,down ballynagelty . Plenty of thrills and spills here especially coming off ballynagelty . Mr Scullion our resident mechanic and navigator took a travelling party off to badgers claw so when he finally arrived we had all had our tea and sandwiches .<\/p>\n Lap 3 Tunnel , Fern gully . A puncture at the wall put the COC out of action but with Scullion on hand all was well. “I’ll lend you tube no bother” , so while the rest went on to mast i valiantly tried to put a 29inch tube into a 26 inch wheel ( bs was riding a 26) . 15 minutes later when i finally got sorted the rest were in various states of hypothemia\/ terminal grumpiness at the mast . A few of us decided that if the 4th climb was going to happen we had better shoot straight down the glen which was just as well as I got another puncture ,fixed only by the good grace of east coast mtb shop who kindly lent me a 26\u00a0<\/strong>inch tube .<\/p>\n Lap 4 By the time we got sorted MR K was already back from fern gully and we headed off on the last slog up to second right and switch backs . Daddy Hicks oh so nearly got a clear round but the legs were all tired . Up to mast for the four finger photo after a period of waiting and nearly away\u00a0when in the distance was the unmistakable helmet of JOD appeared . So back to postions for him and 3 others for a second photo.<\/p>\n Dropping back down we met yet another 4 slackers who had to forgo a cairn photo . Home by the glen , tea , carlsberg , burger and all is well with the world .<\/p>\n [AFG_gallery id=’29’]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Todays learnings , 29 into 26 doesn’t go ….more later. MY ROUTE\u00a0slight alteration to normal , Kenny will provide the “proper” link later Great turnout today of nearly 40 for the 8th Slieve Martin Slaughter , billed as 4 different ascents of Slieve martin on a bike, although after today it would be more correct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specialevents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}