Mayo.ie Rás Team Profiles
Rider Profiles
There are currently four Westport Covey Wheelers & four Castlebar CC riders training together since October for the Mayo.ie Rás Team 2015, lets meet them:
Name: Richard Meaney
Club: Westport Covey Wheelers
Occupation: Biomedical R&D Engineer
How long have you been bike racing: Just 2 years
Hopes for 2015 season: Enjoy it… and pick up a win along the way
Hopes for Rás 2015: Get there fit & healthy and then survive!
Interesting Fact: I’m not from around here! I was born and raised in Limerick, but my mother is from Newport
Random Thought: Racing & training can be tough, you need all the help & support you can get, so a big thanks to my loved ones
Name: James McGreevy
Club: Westport Covey Wheelers
Occupation: Lab Assistant in Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Westport
How long have you been bike racing: 2 years open racing
Hopes for 2015 season / Rás 2015: To spend less time hitting the tarmac this year than last, and to get enough points for an A1 licence
Interesting Fact / Random Thought: There are more life-forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet. Oh you want a fact about me…
Name: Keith O’Connell
Club: Westport Covey Wheelers
Occupation: Chartered Engineer
How long have you been bike racing: Since 2010
Hopes for 2015 season: Win a race myself and help teammates get up in races
Hopes for Rás 2015: Make the start line!
Interesting Fact: Had Irish rugby trials under 18… A long long time ago!
Random Thought: End of season… Oktoberfest 😉
Name: Patjoe O’Connell
Club: Westport Covey Wheelers
Occupation: Restaurant Manager
How long have you been bike racing: 4 years
Hopes for 2015 season / Rás 2015: Upgrade to A1
Interesting Fact / Random Thought: Never took part in any sports before I started cycling…
Name: David Brennan
Club: Castlebar CC
Occupation: Bookseller
How long have you been bike racing: 15 years
Hopes for 2015 season / Rás 2015: Stay healthy, enjoy the year and most importantly stay upright
Interesting Fact / Random Thought: I spend my days trying to come up with one liners that are at least half of funny as those of James ‘The Funnyman’ McGreevy
Name: Chris Troy
Club: Castlebar CC
Occupation: Bike Guru / Mechanic Extraordinaire
How long have you been bike racing: Raced as under age and junior in the 80s and for the last ten years after a long break
Hopes for 2015 season / Rás 2015: Hope to finish Rás inside the top 80 riders. And do a good ride at the Vet national time trial champs & road race
Interesting Fact / Random Thought: The Rás starts on my birthday
Name: David Walshe
Club: Castlebar CC
Occupation: Plumber
How long have you been bike racing: This is my second full season
Hopes for 2015 season / Rás 2015: Be as consistent as possible.. and beat Chris Troy in a TT!
Random Thought: A good rest or a good sleep is essential in this sport
Name: Peter Touhy
Club: Castlebar CC
Occupation: Primary school teacher
How long have you been bike racing: Since 2011
Hopes for 2015 season / Rás 2015: To get a call up for the Tour de France by a reinvented US Postal Team
Interesting Fact: Swimming was my sport
Random Thought: You are one percent shorter in the evening than the morning
Stay tuned for video blogs from our training and racing endeavours… as we try make it to the start (and finish) of the toughest race in Ireland!