Slieve Gullion Wheelers

New Level 1 Coaches For Ulster 

The first official Cycling Ireland Level 1 Coaching Course took place over the past weekend based in Craigavon. Coaches from across Cycling Ulster attended. The Level 1 course builds on the experience of the foundation course to qualify the coaches to coach up cyclists at stages 2 and 3 of the cyclist’s pathway. This covers all cyclists up to Junior level as well as adults starting out in the sport.Throughout the weekend the coaches pulled on their personal experiences and applied the principles of coaching and learning to develop their coaching skills.

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Club’s AGM to be held on Thursday 15th November in Mountain House will now be held at the same venue on Thursday 22nd November at 9.00pm

THE KING OF CYCLING COMES TO CROSS
Sean Kelly, Ireland’s greatest cyclist, takes to the roads of South Armagh along with 80 cyclists from Slieve Gullion Wheelers and other cycling clubs in the Border regions.

Kelly grew up in the townland of Curraghduff, County Waterford onthe Tipperary border near Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland.[1] From the start of his professional career in 1977 when he was discovered by the French directeur sportif Jean de Gribaldy, until his retirement in 1994, Kelly won nine ‘Monument’ Classics, and 193 professional races in total, a tally only bettered by Eddy Merckx. Kelly also won the Paris-Nice stage race seven years in a row, and won the inaugural UCI Road World Cup in 1989.

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The next meeting of the Slieve Gullion Wheelers will take place on Tuesday 6^th November at 9.00pm in The Mountain House, Belleek.

The agenda will include

·         Annual Dinner & Presentation Night – Tickets Sales & Final Preparation

·         Club person of the Year nomination

·         Saturday 10^th November Tour – final preparations

·         Charity notification- confirmation

·         AGM Arrangements

·         AOB

Tickets for the Annual Presentation Dinner will be available for sale at the meeting and members are asked to confirm attendance wherever possible.

Payment can be made to the treasurer, Raymond, on the evening.