By 7 years ago I started a blog called “All About the Triple”, with a view to documenting my introduction to cycling, culminating in cycling Mizen to Malin over the course of a week. While I had the best intentions to use that as a springboard, the intervening years have been
Mizen to Malin Day 7: Letterkenny to Malin Head
Letterkenny to Malin Head (64 miles) Now that there was a car available, we made a decision (without much hesitation in fairness), to ditch the bags for the last day. Given that we had about 400 miles in the legs and wanted to tackle the Gap of Mamore it was
Mizen to Malin Day 6: Ballyshannon to Letterkenny
Ballyshannon to Letterkenny (60 miles) Our original plan had been to cycle from Ballyshannon past Letterkenny, just to leave us with a short day at the end, (circa 45 miles or so). But since Martin O’C was driving back up from Limerick to cycle the last day with us, we
Mizen to Malin Day 5: Claremorris to Ballyshannon
Claremorris to Ballyshannon (77 miles) On paper a long day, and this was made a lot longer by a headwind that was present for about 60 miles. Understandably after the previous night, there was a slow start in the morning, but a very heavy shower (10 minutes of absolutely
Mizen to Malin Day 4: Doolin to Claremorris
Doolin to Claremorris (79 miles) At 79 miles this was planned to be our longest day, and given that a few of us were struggling at the very start with stiff legs, the initial climb out of Doolin was a bit of a shock. But once the legs loosened out
Mizen to Malin Day 3: Ballybunion to Doolin
Ballybunion to Doolin (67Miles) Between the hangover and infection, I wasn’t feeling 100% when I got up. But once I saw the state of the 2 lads who stayed in my sister’s house morale quickly improved! Understandably it was a slow enough start, but the spin to Tarbert to get
Mizen to Malin Day 2: Kenmare to Ballybunion
Kenmare to Ballybunion (62 miles) This was our first full day, and after a decent nice sleep and a cracking breakfast, we ended up rolling out of the B&B at 10:20A.M. (only 20 minutes behind target!). We had good eather, no wind or rain, and not too hot. We stocked
Mizen to Malin, All Finished!
Ok, firstly I was supposed to have kept the blog updated daily, with the plan being at the end to do a proper write-up. But once the iPhone died (it’s still broken actually) that meant I was without technology. So anywhere, here’s a very quick roundup, I’ll put up posts
Mizen to Malin Day 1: Mizen to Kenmare
Mizen Head to Kenmare: 55 miles We left Mizen Head just before 2 pm and luckily the weather conditions we’re pretty favourable (if anything there was a dead heat in sheltered areas). We set a fairly decent pace, and stopped in Durrus, Bantry and finally in Glengarriff. The biggest
T-Minus 1 Day
So, final day before we kick off Mizen to Malin and everyone is pretty excited. Fortunately the chest infection is much improved, but with a short 55 miles to start with tomorrow, I should be in fairly decent shape (Having said that there is a Cat 3 climb to negotiate