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By Mícheál 18th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 7: Letterkenny to Malin Head

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 a fairly wise decision. Although the

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By Mícheál 15th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 6: Ballyshannon to Letterkenny

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 decided to have an easy

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By Mícheál 14th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 5: Claremorris to Ballyshannon

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 torrential rain), made this a struggle.

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By Mícheál 10th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 4: Doolin to Claremorris

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 a bit it turned out

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By Mícheál 10th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 3: Ballybunion to Doolin

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 the ferry was lovely,

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By Mícheál 9th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 2: Kenmare to Ballybunion

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 up on bananas and jaffa

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By Mícheál 8th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

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

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By Mícheál 8th August 201129th October 2019 Mizen to Malin/Touring

Mizen to Malin Day 1: Mizen to Kenmare

The Group at Mizen Head 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 climb of

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