Busy weekend & Glens video

So, last weekend was a busy one! It started off on Friday evening with a go-karting session with the rest of the ULKC committee, which was intended as a 'team building' exersise. That we're now better able to work together after crashing karts into each other for an evening I'm not sure, but it was great craic!

Saturday afternoon was the Curragower freestyle competition/ round 1 of the national freestyle league. I made a small miscalculation of the tides which meant that everything ran about an hour behind schedule but apart from that it ran off pretty well. The standard of paddling was nuts, with Len Kelleher hitting huge moves with a lovely, fluid style, Barry Loughnane landing even bigger moves and several of the guys who have recently graduated from juniors not far behind them. It was great to see and hopefully it's the start of a great year for Irishfreestyle.

Here are the results from the day:

Paddler                Position
                       
Sport                       
Mairead Barnwell        1
                       
K1JM                       
Tom Galione               1
Calvin O'Brien            2
Craig Cummins           2
                       
K1W                       
Muireann Lynch        1
Aisling Griffin            2
                       
K1M                       
Barry Loughnane      1
Len Kelleher            2
Dave McClure         3
Eoin Keyes              4
Shane Little              5
Ronnie Brennan        6
Conor Macken        7
Matthew Cassin       8

On Saturday I was playing in the first round of the Munster Polo League with ULKC. One of the other teams didn't show up so we ended up playing our main team in Div 1 and also entered a beginners team in Div 2. We knew we were going to be completely outclassed in both of them but we gave it a good go all the same, and it was really good to play against much tougher opposition than we're used to. We were definatly playing much better towards the end of the night than the start as people got the hang of zones and tactics, which is what we were hoping to get from the night

...and on Sunday I went downhill mountain biking at fairymount farm. It was the first time I'd gone biking and not had to pedal back up the hill every time and it was brilliant craic, even with several kgs of mud sticking to everyone and their bikes at the end of every run! The mud made it horrifically slippy on the course, with lots of low speed falls and sliding out on corners. It was great fun all the same, and I'm mad to go back sometime it's dry.

Gavin Sheehan put together a great little video from Rob Guerins footage from the Glens the other week. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZZNwelWSSQ&feature=youtu.be