Congratulations to both Martin Moore, winner of the 2024 Men’s Touring League and to Anne O’Dwyer, winner of the Women’s League. Martin and Anne were presented with individual trophies at the Club AGM in November as well as with the Men’s and Women’s Perpetual Trophies. They are also now owners of the 2024 Club Touring Jerseys and will hopefully wear them with pride over the coming years.
The 2025 Touring League will run from 1st March until mid-October and prizes, including the Club Touring Jerseys and the Perpetual Trophies, will be awarded to the highest placed men and women.
Only paid-up club members are eligible to participate in the League.
Points awarded in the Touring League are based on the official distance of the event with no extras for cycling to the start and back!
Events of 80k or less will get 6 points; 7 for 90k; 8 for 100k; 9 for 110k; 10 for 120k; 11 for 140k; 12 for 160k; 13 for 180k and 14 points for 200k or more.
In order to encourage members to get cycling early in the season, a reliability spin weekend will be designated in March, April and May. Members going on either Saturday or Sunday club spins on those weekends will be awarded League points.
Double points will be awarded for completing or assisting at the club Two County Challenge on 22nd June.
Points will also be awarded for participation in the monthly IVCA Leisure League events.
As before, only 4 audax events per person will be awarded points but these must be organized group events rather than solo “permanent” audaxes.
Multi-day events, both at home and abroad, will get 14 points once the overall total is at least 200k. If less than 200k, the points will be based on the total distance.
If you are not sure whether points will be awarded for an event you are planning on doing, please contact me beforehand to clarify this.
I will keep an eye on the MNSCC Strava club each week in order to identify qualifying rides but if I miss you, please email me at liamegan2012@gmail.com within two weeks of the event with the name, date and event distance together with links to the event website and your Strava record of the ride if possible.
Administering the League will be a lot simpler if members record their qualifying rides on Strava, ensure that they can be seen by “Everyone” in Privacy Controls and that they are members of the McNally Swords CC Strava club.
The points total spreadsheet below will be updated as I am informed of events undertaken but only each person’s most recent event will be identified.
Best of luck everyone.