Reading Time: 3 minutesI believe Syd has been bitten by the challenges, and vituals, that audax provides and I believe he cajoled me into entering my second 200 of the merry month of May only 6 days after the first. I don’t think I was dreaming when he picked me up to drive to the start at Broken […]
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Year: 2013
Borderlands Mountainbike Challenge 11 Ma...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis was the WVCC team for the 20th anniversary of this great fundraising event. The weather was chilly, but much better than forecast and the going firm most of the way round. Despite my decisive attack up the first hill,Tim reeled me in and rode away to be quickest of our team. I had a good gap on […]
Holt (Short Run) – 12th May 2013
Reading Time: 2 minutesStill gripped with Cheshire Classic fever it was great to see so many ladies out at the Legion this morning including Nikki, Elaine, El and new rider Nicky. Nicky’s story is a good one, in that having always enjoyed cycling she’s been building up the miles ready for a London to Paris attempt. She caught […]
Prees May 12th 2013
Reading Time: 2 minutesA good turn out at the Legion today with two new riders, Nicola (good to see our girls’ contingent increasing in number) and Anthony. A warm welcome to them. The short run went to Holt; I joined the long run to Prees, along with Jim W, Bruce, Ewart, Richard M, newish riders Peter and Jamie, […]
Club 10 mile TT – Practice – 8th May 201
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere are the results from the Pratice TT. Handicaps will be used from this event as a starting point for the Guardian Cup series.
Club 10 Mile TT – Gents 2 up (including
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStarting as I mean to go on, here are the results in tabular format for the first of this seasons club 10s.
20/21 April. The Real Little Big One
Reading Time: 3 minutesWell with Derek doing the light weight route check the week before [sociable start and finish times] it was left to Dennis Hornby, Syd Rimmer and me to do the real thing.. We [and another 35 nutcases] gathered in the municipal car park in Poynton for a 2300hrs start ! An almost still night beckoned […]
Off road weekend 13 &14 April
Reading Time: 2 minutesSaturday saw four of us head off from Hawkshead through the Grizedale Forest onto this fantastic bridleway which gave us superb views over Lake Coniston to the Old Man beyond ( that’s a mountain by the way, not one off our club members). Kev & El (who seem to always know these routes from previous Polaris […]
BikeRight! National Standard Cycling Ins...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor anyone interested in becoming an accredited instructor: From June 4th to 7th BikeRight! will be staging a National Standard Cycle Instructor Course at Eirias Park Sports Centre, LL29 7SP. Our cycle instructor courses last for 4 days and adhere to all the recommendations and principles of the National Standards for cycle training. Once completed […]
A Little Big One
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow the longer days are here an audax man’s thoughts turn to the bigger distances working towards a series of 200k, 300k,400k and eventually a 600k. A number of our members have entered a 300 next weekend and some daft people have to check the route to make sure the instructions are ok and there […]
Off Road ride 6 April
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA fabulous sunny spring day saw four of us set out on the superb Penmachno trail. This was Tim former WVCC’s Anne on loop 2 (which we did first). Anne and Ann carried on together while Tim and I rode both loops before lunch back at the Conway Falls cafe. The conditions were pretty good most […]
Summertrees (Short Run) – 7th April 2013
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo celebrate the club run returning to it’s 9.30 (booo = less sleep) Summer start time, Al put together a classic route to take the short run to Summertrees. A route steeped in heritage, created by a certain Terry Veal years ago which features every hill en-route including The Yeld and Chapel Lane (the hard […]