Fionnula Mann, Christine Nagle and Maura Corey were pounding the pavement together for 6 years. They have all run marathons and participated in the management of competitions.
Nevertheless, 10 weeks ago, when her husband Fionnula Simon suggested that they try a different kind of challenge, the ladies hanging their coaches and rose on their bikes to prepare for Cooperation Ireland Belfast to Dublin Maracycle. Maracycle a 2-day event last Saturday and Sunday with more than 1000 cyclists pedal from Belfast to Dublin and return along the same route the next day.
The trail took Moira, Banbridge and Drogheda and finished at Dublin City University. A total of cyclists covered a distance of 216 miles, a mammoth task for the trio, as none of them had no experience riding a bike.
