Cycling Ireland has confirmed the inaugural National eRacing Championships will take place in January, with a qualification race to come next month.
While a national team was selected for the UCI eRacing World Championships at the start of this year after eRacing really took off during lock-down, Ireland has never held eRacing national title races before now.
Cycling Ireland has yet to confirm full details of what is planned, though the national governing body has confirmed a qualifying race will be run as the first stage of the eRacing championships.
From that qualification event, 10 riders will qualify to meet in-person at a venue in Dublin on January 15th to decide who wins the medals. The fact the finalists will face-off against each other in a head-to-head should be a great spectacle.
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However, there isn't much time to prepare as the qualification race will take place in just over three weeks time.
That qualification event takes place at 10am on Saturday, December 18th, over one lap of the Watopia Figure 8 course, for a total race distance of 29.8km. Men and women will start separately at one-minute intervals, Cycling Ireland confirmed today.
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Racing will take place on the full Wahoo ecosystem including KICKR Smart Turbo Trainer, KICKR Climb and KICK Headwind. The men’s and women’s event will be live broadcast.
While the qualification event is open to all, anyone looking to go forward to ride the championship event in January must finish in the top 10 of the qualification race and must also satisfy criteria set out in the technical guide.
The criteria include: Cycling Ireland 2021 or 2022 membership; dual power recording; weight and height verification; public Strava profile link; .fit files for best outdoor 5min and 20min effort.
You can register for the qualification event by following this link. The technical guide is available at this link.
Ireland's aRacing National Champs 2022
Sat, Dec 18th: Qualification event
- Men at 10am | Women at 10:01am. Watopia Figure 8
- 29.8 km distance | 234m elevation
- Top 10 men and top 10 women who satisfy the criteria set out within the technical guide to qualify
Sat, Jan 15th: eRacing National Champs
- Women at 6pm | Men at 7:30pm. New York, Astoria Line 8
- 34.5km distance | 423m elevation
- An in-person event taking place in at TBC Dublin venue
