Lehanmore Panto The Sound of Music was a great success last night for the fourth and last performance. It was the fifth Panto in five years, written by Bill Griffin and Carina Mc Nally with all the cast adding a few lines here and there also. Behind the scenes were Bernie organising the whole show and tickets, Billy Murry who painted the sets and Sarah O’Connor who was prompting and doing the sounds.
Watch the Lehanmore “Sound of Music” Back Stage here
The kids had their own show “Tír Na nÓg” which was fantastic.
Watch the kids doing “Tír Na nÓg”
Lehanmore Panto The Sound of Music
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A week has gone since the race that I had been training for for the last eleven months. That’s 11000 KM of training for a race that was supposed to take me four hours. In the end mostly due to me being very careful on the descents I got 4h26 mins which put me at 248th overall of a field of 650 and 38th in the male fifty category out of 150. That is 60 KM of tough uphill climbs and savage down hills.
Its a race not an adventure, although there is a bit of that too
The picture below shows why sometimes it is best to play safe and get off the bike.
Picture by andrewnward copyright is his alone
The race has been going since the 1950’s way before mountain bikes were ever thought up. Which is why it is a cyclo cross bike event. Cyclo cross bikes were the original off road bike with drop handle bars. These days they are commonly sorted with disc brakes and frames often made out of carbon fibre. Which is good as in the race there is about 8KM of carrying the bike, which is not too bad when they weigh around 9KG a bit lighter than most mountain bikes.
Picture by bradshaws @ sportsunday copyright is his
Of course the tyres being much narrower means that care should be taken down some of the rocky descents. Some riders in the event would have gone down the hills a full 8 minutes quicker than me though. So next year it is on the down hill sections that I intend to make up my lost time….
Picture by Michael Kenyon of Racing snakes, copyright is his
So next year is only 358 days away and I fully intend to get back to the race and hope to bring Neil too, we could have a go at the father and son category, but I will have to get quicker…
Many thanks to my godson Ben Houlihan who cycled around the circuit using the roads to meet me twice and hand me food and drink, he also had a spare pair of wheels for his father and myself in case we punctured.
Garnish win against Urhan in the Beara JA Championships, a great match to watch on the 12th of August 2017. This film was just made up from shots taken from a static position on the side line as I was there for an altogether different job.
Well done to Garnish, bad luck Urhan
Watch some highlights here
Garnish win against Urhan in the Beara JA Championships
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