Mondello Park has become a great venue for the summer series but now it is playing host to two-hour winter training sessions (Photo: Sean Rowe)
If it’s training time on Mondello Park track in Co Kildare we really must be in the depths of winter time again.
As has been the case for the last couple of years, Maynooth Cycles has secured the track for a two-hour training session every Wednesday evening.
It’s a motor racing track but it’s used for the Mondello Series of bike races in the summer months. So it’s well known to cyclists in Leinster and indeed further afield.
Every Wednesday evening, from 7pm to 9pm, the track is open to cyclists to go along and get a training spin in - for the full two hours or for a shorter ride.
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You obviously need to have lights on your bike, but as a closed track with no cars, traffic lights, pedestrians or potholes to worry about it really is made for winter training.
It should also become a social outing and it would be great for getting club groups to go along and get some training done as a unit.
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At this time of year obviously nobody should be going too crazy, but the track provides a great opportunity to get two hours into your legs at the exact intensity you want.
And obviously you can step it up with more serious intervals in the weeks and months ahead.
Maynooth Cycles owner Mark Downes tells us it’s going very well, having just started.
His plan is to keep the two-hour Wednesday sessions going until the end of February. He’ll see how the numbers continue to grow and he may add a second evening each week.
Obviously the track needs to be paid for, so it’s €8 per person; a modest sum for access to a controlled and safe training environment for a full two hours.
If you want more information check out the Maynooth Cycles Mondello winter training Facebook page by following this link.
A Wednesday session in Mondello
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