Scott-Orwell Wheelers are proud to promote the first of several audax for 2018, the Dublin/Meath/Kildare 200km on Sunday 4th March. There’s more information on the Audax Ireland page, or click through. Update: This event has been cancelled due to the bad weather

Last Summer, Joe did the 180km version of the Giants Causeway Sportive. But he missed the cutoff time to finish over Torr Head. As a result, Torr Head was a bit of “unfinished business”. The Titanic Torr event this April seemed like an ideal solution – a 200km Audax, starting from Belfast, with Torr Head at about 95km.

Scott-Orwell Wheelers are proud to announce two upcoming audax events; the Midlands 300 and the National 400. These follow on from March’s Orwell 200 Audax.

A big Chapeau goes out to Danny: Two Randonneur Round the Year (RRTY) Awards and two Super Randonneur Awards.

‘The Longest Day’ is the name of a 1962 epic war film about the 1944 D-Day landings; the story that follows is about a battle of a very different kind. 05:30 am – 6th August 2016, 14 Riders -300km, 3 scheduled stops -20 hour Time limit.

Scott-Orwell Wheeler Danny Moriarty gives us insight into what it’s like to take on the challenge of a 300km audax in the form of the Priest’s Leap and Devil’s Elbow…

Best of luck to Dave Mc and Danny Moriarty on their epic challenge next week!

The final event in the Orwell Super Randonneur series is coming up in two weekends time, in the shape of The National 600. This is an old classic back in the calendar after an absence of 8 years, and is probably the most beginner friendly 600 around. Full details below!

When Dave Mc suggested running a 200km audax in March, he didn’t expect quite so many Orwell members to be eager to flay themselves so early in the year. 32 members signed on, including the ever-prolific Billy Parker, who provides us with an excellent account of the day below!

Following on from the Orwell 200 the next in the series is the Midlands 300, in 3 weeks time. There was a good bit of interest in this at the finish yesterday, and Dave had a handful of entries in already so it is likely to be another big field. For most people completing a 200 will be as far as they will ever hope to go in a day, but for the few who are tempted to try go one step further there will probably be no better opportunity to give it a go. Details are below.

Over the August bank holiday weekend, while much of the country was sodden and flooded, John McElligot organised the latest addition to the Orwell calendar, the Inner Ring Audax, which was held in the sunny south-west of Kerry. He tells us how his day went below…

Orwell’s John McElligott is organising a challenging 200km with a significant amount of climbing and descending on some of the quietest and most spectacular roads that Kerry has to offer.