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The Mayo Centra team will be the only Connacht team in the 2014 An Post Ras. The once amateur race has seen more professional teams enter over the last five years, and it is only a few years away from being a fully professional event.

The popular Rás Chonamara takes place this Easter Bank Holiday weekend with 100 riders competing for the annual Gerry Clancy Memorial Trophy.

For the second year running Mayo Centra will enter a team in the An Post 8 day Rás; this year the riders are all members from the Western Lakes Cycling Club. The five-man squad consists of a mixture of highly experienced cyclists and late vocations to the sport, which epitomises the focus on rider development at the Ballinrobe-based club. The racing group at the club is going from strength to strength with a record number of racers registered in 2013, making for fierce competition on training spins as well as hard-fought club league races.

This year will see two Mayo based teams taking part in the An Post Rás for the first time. Castlebar Cycling Club first entered a team in the big race in 2009 and has competed in three instalments of the race since, and will be once again on the start line when the race gets under way on Sunday. This years Rás team is made up of brothers Patrick and Ciaran Clarke alongside Bernard Twomeny, Chris Coyle, and David Brennan.

Ex-Mayo football star Maurice Sheridan and former manager John Maughan are making a final appeal to amateur cyclists from all over Mayo to join them for a stage of the Race for Rás charity cycle next month.

Ireland’s biggest cycling race, the FBD Insurance Rás, will visit Galway next week (Tuesday and Wednesday) on is third and fourth stages.

After a long absence from the Irish Cycling calendar, St Patrick’s Day, 2010, sees the return of Rás Mhaigh Eo to the roads of Mayo. Organised by Westport Cycling Club, Covey Wheelers, and sponsored by Bourke Waste, the race will take place over 80km circuit. The race will start in Westport, and continue out to Ashleagh Falls, then Louisburgh, and back to Westport, finishing with a climactic sprint on the West road.

The annual Rás na Turcaí will take place on December 28. Sign on at the Castlecourt Hotel at 11am and then complete the Aughagower circuit.