Wrapping up the Rás

FBD Insurance Rás Stage 8: Phoenix Park Circuit, 50 km Eight days, eight stages and it ended today in Dublin with the type of race we're pretty used to--a criterium. Mind you this criterium had 156 guys in it. 156 left after 193 started last Sunday.

well, once again the final result eluded us, but we're pretty happy with this Rás all in all. We rode an aggressive race, gelled as a team and we've had a productive trip to Europe. We've done 9 days of world class UCI racing and had 13 days racing in total in the last three and a half weeks. We met the 'legend' Sean Kelly, and we got to ride through the 'heartland' of cycling in Belgium for a while. That's all pretty cool.

The guys will post a follow up blog or two reflecting their own thoughts about the past 3 weeks, but for now we're off to do what the Irish do best--PARTY! Here's some results and check out this historic shot of Andrew winning in Castletownbeare at the Rás in 2002.

Photo of Andrew courtesy the FBD Insurance Ras website.

results

1 Bill Moore (Irl) M Donnelly 1.01.14
2 Julian Winn (GBr) Stena
3 Morten Hegreberg (Nor) Sparebanken Vest
4 Simon Kelly (Irl) Nucleus
5 Eugene Moriarty (Irl) cycleways.com
6 Aidan Crowley (Irl) cycleways.com
7 Richard Kooijman (Ned) BRC Kennemerland
8 Yanto Barker (GBr) Stena
9 Colm Bracken (Irl) Murphy Surveys
10 Arne Hinrichsen (Ger) Stevens von Hacht

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