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THINGS YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK …………….. TOSH
LAVERY. NAME ; TOSH LAVERY 1. Age: 47 2. Club: Garda Motorway 3.
GC: How did you get started in cycling? TL: I gave up drink twelve years ago, copped myself on and decided to put my energy into something else. 4. GC: What Was your first win?
TL:
The Veterans
Championships 1993. 5.
GC: How often do you train?
TL:
We’re Vets,
we don’t need to train! Four or five times a week if I can. 6.
GC: Favourite training spin? TL: With Cass and Kenno Around the lakes in the winter. 7. GC: Best result / performance to date?
TL:
I’d say my best result was winning the Kevin McInerny race in Dunlavin the
year before last. 8. GC: Ambition in cycling?
TL:
Try and stay
alive. (Laughs) I seen Kenno falling today, try and stay up. 9.
GC: Favourite professional cyclist?
TL:
I always liked
Kelly ‘cos he’s from the oul’ Waterford county . I know him well and get
on well with him. I suppose he has the same oul’ mentality as I have myself! . 10. GC: Pet hates?
TL:
Ahh, I don’t
think I have any. 11.
GC: How do you relax?
TL:
I don’t know
how to! 12.
GC: Do you think 3rd Cats should be re-introduced?
TL:
I think so, and
the most you should be able to stay there for is 2 years. It’s a good oul
class, I started there myself and it brought me on. I have a thing to say about
women too. There’s women there too and they don’t get a chance. They should
be let ride with the vets federation or the ‘C’s. We won’t bring them on
at all in this country because they’re starting of with ‘B’s and juniors
and they’re gone after 2 or 3 miles and we’re going to lose them if we
don’t do something. 13.
GC: Apart from Ireland, where have you raced?
TL:
I
raced in England and I raced in the European Police championships. I got 3 golds
and a silver in the World Police and Fire Games in Sweden last year in the over
45’s. 14.
GC: Who will be the next Irish rider to win a Tour De France stage?
TL:
Mark Scanlon 15.
GC: Favourite race?
TL:
The Beechmount.
If you’re a rider, you’re always looking forward to the first race of the
season. 16.
GC: Best rider you have raced against?
TL:
I suppose Cass
always gives it 100 percent when he’s either training or racing. I always
kinda admired him in fairness. He’s dedicated even with work and home, he
knows how to train too. 17. GC. Have you tried mountainbiking?
TL; No.
I’d love to try it . Ahh, maybe in the next life. 18.
GC:What makes you a good cyclist?
TL:
All the
suffering before I started (laughs) I learned how to suffer before I went near a
bike. I learned a lot from Seamus Kennedy and Sean Lally too. 19.
GC: Would you let your kids take up the sport?
TL:
Yeah. I’d like to see my fellah doing well. He’s in college this year so
he’s not training as much as others maybe, but I think he has a bit of class
in there and hopefully it’ll come out eventually. 20.
GC: Describe yourself in one sentence? TL: A fellah who needs to cop himself on a bit! |
