The domestic road season gets underway tomorrow, Sunday, when the Ned Flanagan Memorial in Co Kildare gives riders their first opportunity to gauge their form against the opposition after the long off season.
The race, won last year by Barry Meade (Planet Tri), is a 60km mainly flat affair over one big loop which starts and finishes in Monasterevin.
While there was just one race last year run on a handicapped basis, this year four races are planned; one for A1&A2, one each for A3s and A4s and one for women.
The racing, promoted by Newbridge, is in memory of Ned Flanagan who won stages in the 1966 and 1967 Rásanna and played a huge part assisting his brother Paddy in winning the event outright in 1960, 1964 and again a remarkable eleven years later in 1975.
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Start time for the racing tomorrow is 11.30am, outside the Bell Yard Pub in Monasterevin.
The race route is one 60km loop and will travel from Monasterevin to Ballybrittas, Portlaoise, Ballyronan, Heath, Ballybritttas back to Monasterevin for the finish at the Bell Yard Pub on the main street at around 2pm.
Sign on for the events at the Bell Yard, Monasterevin, will close at 11.30am.
There is also a Rehab leisure cycle that will follow the race route. The leisure spin will leave Monasterevin at 9.30am and will travel the same route as the race.
Barry Meade takes the flag in Monasterevin, Co Kildare, to get his 2013 campaign off to a great start this time last year.
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