The Des Hanlon Memorial, one of the most coveted races on the domestic scene, will not take place this year because of the Covid19 pandemic.
While the event was due to be contested on October 11th in the revised and extended calendar of racing, Carlow Road Cycling Club has said it has decided not to go ahead this year.
Because the lifting of lock-down measures was stalled recently, with a cap of 200 people at events outdoors maintained, the club has decided to cancel the race this year.
While the cap on outdoor gatherings must be dealt with by all race organisers, the events that have taken place to date since the re-start of the season have gone off smoothly.
However, in the current climate all clubs have been looking at the characteristics of their particular events and some have decided to put their plans on ice for the year.
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In announcing the decision to cancel the Des Hanlon Memorial, Carlow Road Cycling Club said it would promote another road race later in the season.
“Following a recent committee meeting of Carlow Road
Cycling Club, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone the Des Hanlon
Memorial for 2020,” the club said.
“With the current restrictions of a maximum of 200 people allowed to congregate at a sporting event, and taking into account the organisational, logistical and financial commitment to run this race, unfortunately it will not be possible to run the event this year.
“We have, however, decided to run Rás Ceatharlach on September 27th, which will be a combined A1-A2-A3 event over 100km. We will also run an A4 event over 50km.”
The club added numbers would be restricted to a maximum
of 100 riders in the main event and 60 in the A4 race, with online pre-entry
set to open in due course.
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