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Medals for the Clann
Date: 18 Jan 2010 / Category: Cycling / Views: 146
Cycling Ulster, the governing body for the sport in this province are uncarachteristically just now getting down to giving out medals to last years championship winners. It is only a few weeks till the start of the 2010 season, and all the 2009 winners of various Ulster and N.Ireland championships have been invited to an Antrim venue next Friday. (22 Jan.2010 )
Clann Eireann cyclists should be there in force. All the road race and time trial medals will be presented, as well as some for track events, and the lengthy list shows that as many as eighteen medals will come to the very successful Lurgan club. Declan Mulhoulland, the youngest has medals to collect from Under 12 championships on road, track and time trials. His sister Ciara won the under 14 road race title. Up the ladder, Thomas Martin won the senior road title in fine style, and the senior team has medals to get for the Ulster 10 mile time trial championship and the N.I. 25 mile championship. One proud medal winner will be Warren McNeill, who gets a solitary team medal for his performance in the N.I. “25”, but without him, the Clann would have missed that team award altogether. The other medal winners from the Clann are Michael Murray and John Heverin, the latter being the most prolific, taking top three places in every championship from 25 miles upwards, as well as being on both winning teams. Few if any of the forty other cycling clubs in Ulster will be able to match that kind of result.
If 2009 was a good year for Clann Eireann cyclists, the same group are certainly not sitting back on their laurels this week. Now that the ice and snow that plagued the start of 2010 have gone, the seniors have been getting the miles in over the past weekend, and training plans are being firmed up so that as many as possible will be ready for the road race season which starts at the end of next month. Training runs leave the clubrooms on Saturdays at 9 am, and Church Place at 9.30 on Sundays.
Maurice Bann-Lavery
PRO. Clann Eireann Cycling Club