Audax

Valerie Plant Orwell Wheelers CC A 1200km route through all 32 counties on the island of Ireland 90hr time limit Finish time 88hr 55mins Shoulder2Shoulder 1200km Audax

Shoulder2Shoulder - Hover over the icons for more information. Blue icons are Controls. Red icons indicate riders are at (or past) that control. This is a MANDATORY route for the calendar audax. Riders must follow the GPX file or the routesheet and checkin at each control. Secret controls may also be used. Riders who leave the route (eg. for food, or to sleep) must return to the point where they left the route in order to continue. 2025 FINISHERS Ian Ryall first man h

Congrats to the Orwell team who placed 3rd in the mixed team of 8 category at the Mondello 24hr. The team rode 805km in the 24hours. David Kirwan Donal Connolly Eva Zeile, John McElligott Paschal Comerford Peter Rafferty Colum Maddox (mgr) John Kehoe finished 4th in the solo category. Kashif Qayyum covered 523.88km in the 24 hours

Best of luck to club rider Ilie Gabuja who is currently cycling to the north of Norway. He will be covering around 2-3000 kms and is doing this to raise funds for a good purpose for SBHI. He will be posting daily my rides and photos on my strava at . Please donate with what you can , all funds will go to Spina Bifida Hydrochephalus. Thanks. https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/ilies3000km 1 https://www.strava.com/activities/14722147319 2 https://www.strava.com/activities/1474817

Sean O'Kane everested Ballymana lane in 11hr 8min. Any part of Ballymana lane is a tough climb, but doing a 1km section more that 50 times is hard core.

Audax - Celtic Knot 2025 42hr 04min moving 64hr 38min elapsed I obviously did'nt learn my lesson from last time. I returned, and so did the winds. Brutal at times and then accompanied by biblical rain for the final 100km or so.... And yet all that aside an incredible and unforgettable weekend. Great teamwork within the group (Apologies to them for some of the cranky late night outbursts....😲😄) But most of all a sincere thanks to the organisers and team - Hendrik, Keith, Fin

The non-audaxers: the emptiness of their lives is shocking. They move through a world of soft edges and predictable comforts. Their weekends are a vacuum of un-tested limits, a realm where the only burning sensation comes from a few efforts in the Wicklow Hills, in fair weather, with companions for support and Val to mend their punctures. They ride to eat cake, not eat cake to ride. They exist outside the peculiar fraternity of the long road, untouched by the quiet madness of

Photo Darragh Delaney/Audax Ireland 42 riders signed on at Joe Dalys in Dundrum to ride the Orwell Midlands 300km Audax on Sunday 6th April. It was nippy enough before dawn as they set off. The route is straightforward: Dundrum - Mountrath - Birr - Athlone - Dundrum and must be completed inside a timelimit of 20hrs. There is just one significant climb, the Wolftrap over the Slieve Blooms between Mountrath and Birr. It was a glorious sunny day, but there was a stiff h

09 Mar 2025, 07:00 – 20:30 Enter this Audax event via Eventmaster (now closed) 200km route See comments for more....

Completed by David Costello in 2024, the Wild Atlantic Way Audax is a 2,126km route that follows the West of Ireland Tourist Trail from...

After a nervy start - holding back the adrenalin - we’re in open, undulating roads. Dave roams up and down, placing his troops in formation. “Colin: go over there. Danny: come here … everyone set, ok, now gently accelerate … that's good.” A year of my life given for this moment. Time ceases - the night syncopated only by calls of “up and over!” Glancing back, the mother of all pacelines behind us, white LEDs snaking over the horizon, then back up the previous hill and beyond

Audaxers had a busy 2022. Notable highlights include… Five hardy riders finished the Kings Mountain 200 on a snowy day in February. The Orwell 200 in March had a large entry, boosted by Leonard Kaye’s “newbies”.

The Orwell 1000 will take place on Friday 27th August 2021. The route will start and finish at Joe Daly Cycles with a start time of 06:00 am though the shop will open from 05:30 am when toilets, changing room and bag storage will be available. Bags may be collected on completion of the route. The 1,000 km route is based broadly on combining 3 traditional audax routes into a single 1,000 km route. Read on for full details….

The Orwell 200 will take place on Sunday the 8th of March and is the first of 2 Audax events which will be hosted by Scott Orwell Wheelers in 2020. This event is a great starting point for anyone thinking of giving Audaxing a go or the experienced.

In Villaines, the whole population is in the streets. “Huh, there seems to be a festival going on.” “YOU’re the festival, bozo!” I park the bike and run up the steps to get my card stamped. The crowd cheers and parts in front of me, the brevet card in my hand become the Olympic torch, carried across continents to the controller’s rubber stamp. Thanks to Kashif for these wonderful memories of PBP 2019

“It was really tough, I have never, ever gotten as close to the physical and mental anguish I endured over the few days. I think we all had our difficult moments and somehow, we all dragged ourselves through them. My emotions shifted from despair to exaltation and I was continually humbled by the support along the way.” The final part of Andrew Potts PBP series is the big one – the story of the event itself and how it unfolded for Andrew. It’s a tale worth reading!

It’s finally here! It’s Paris-Brest-Paris starts tomorrow, Sunday the 18th of August sees 13 Scott Orwell Wheelers line up to complete the 1,250km challenge that they have been working towards for the past 2 years. This is the second of a two part look at the who is taking on the challenge and why! Andrew Potts put some questions to the group …….