The National Road Championships 2025 will be fought out in counties Westmeath and Meath in just over three weeks time, with the TTs and road races being promoted this year by a mix of three clubs.
Though sharing responsibility for promoting title races is a new departure, the format for the championships stays the same; TTs being raced on Thursday on championship week and the road race titles being decided at the weekend.
The routes of the events, and other details, have now been released and entries are officially open business, so be sure to get your entries in quick as you can.
The TTs are being held on Thursday, June 26th and are being promoted by Lakeside Wheelers. The road races will unfold over the weekend of June 28th and 29th and are being promoted by Navan Road Club, supported by Yellow Furze CC.
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The TT title races will get underway at 6.30pm, with race headquarters, based at Kilbeggan Whiskey Distillery Visitor Centre. You can view the 25.4km course by following this link.
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The out-and-back course along the R446 takes the riders through Horseleap village, to the edge of Moate, where the riders turn on a large roundabout and finish back in Kilbeggan. The promoting club describes only "slight undulations" and a road surface described as being in excellent condition.
There are TT Irish title races for; junior women, senior women, junior men, U23 men, elite men, Para B tandem TT mixed, Para C division TT mixed, Para H division TT mixed.
For road race championship week, Saturday sees three events held; junior men (start 9.15am), elite-U23 women (start 1.30pm) and junior women (start 1.35pm). And on Sunday there is one race, for elite-U23 men, starting at 12.30pm.
The course for each race is mainly comprised of a 25.3km lap, with the start and finish of each race just off the circuit.
The start and finish area, which the rides will not race through each lap, is outside Yellow Furze National School. Race headquarters is at Seneschalstown GAA, Beauparc Station, Co Meath, about 2.5km from the start and finish area.
- The junior women race for two laps, for a total race distance of 55km, with 480m of elevation gain.
- The junior men do four full laps and 9.3km - a small loop mostly on the main circuit - for a race distance of 116km with 960m of elevation gain.
- The elite-U23 women complete four full laps and 9.3km - the small loop, mostly on the main circuit - for a race distance of 116km with 960m of elevation gain.
- The elite-U23 men complete six full laps and 9.3km - the small loop, mostly on the main circuit - for a race distance of 167km with 1,380m of elevation gain.
You can enter the TTs by following this link. And you can enter the road races at these links: junior women, junior men, elite-U23 women, elite-U23 men.
