Mallow Pre race

An early morning start was had yesterday by Alan Connolly, Richard Thornhill and myself as we set off on a day of having the craic. first we went over to Torc, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Here we put in half a dozen runs down Torc Mountain with the Tralee Bay mountain bikers and a few wild deer that decided to join us.

 Richie "Big Man" Thornhill, Me and Alan "the beast" Connolly.. #teamwestcork

After several runs of Torc we decided to take our riding elsewhere, so we headed over to the Venue for next weekends Irish Downhill Mountain bike Series round 2 on Mt. Hillary, Mallow, Co.Cork. Apparently the only person ever not to ride the track I was absolutely shocked. The track in Mallow has the most diverse terrain from top to bottom I have ridden on an Irish downhill track. The trail goes from perfectly smooth flowy hardcore, to rocky drain gullies, to steep rooty turns. It is one of the races I am most looking forward to this year to say the least !

 Riding my Kona Process 134DL down the top section in Mallow DH