York cyclist Alastair Kay is competing in the hardest race in the British Isles, the 700 mile, eight-day Milk Ras, the Tour of Ireland, which started yesterday.
The York Cycleworks rider is in a field of 200 riders and eager to emulate the excellent form he showed earlier in the year when he won a stage of the Tour of Saudi Arabia and finished seventh in the Cape Argus Cycletour in South Africa.
He was 15th overall last year in his first Ras event and his team mate this week is Chris Young (Team Marie Curie).
The highlight of Tour of Ireland will be two super tough stages over the mountains of County Kerry. The race finishing with a circuit race in the centre of Dublin next Sunday.
York cyclist Phil Brighton was sixth in the British Cycling Federation All Yorkshire circuit race championships for elite 1,2 riders held at British Areospace at Brough on Humberside. He also was the top North Yorkshire finisher.
Brighton, a former Yorkshire champion, set the pace with four others but Paul Purdy (Cottingham) went on to win.
Updated: 11:53 Monday, May 21, 2001
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