Weekly Club Update and Club runs for the weekend of 25th and 26th of March

[WorcsPhil]

WEEKLY UPDATE:

The clocks go forward this Saturday meaning one less hour in bed, but much lighter evenings, so time to dust off your summer bikes, summer shorts and get ready for 6 months of fun...starting with club runs this coming weekend, of course. Get your name down to lead and laugh (virtually) at least one of your fellow riders who turns up an hour late (there's always one!)

We had 3 club runs at the weekend, an excellent C-Ride on Saturday, led by Cedric, who has again designed a programme of rides to build up distance to a second 300kms ride in mid-Summer. To Paul Balfe for leading this week's BC Guided ride on Sunday and Phil Gameson for a popular B-Ride to Kenilworth...huge thanks to all three leaders.

Talking of 300kms, a bunch of seven (magnificent?) of us rode the Mark Rigby's Rough Diamond 300kms Audax on Saturday from Tewkesbury. This was a fabulous day out, and we fair rollocked along to finish before 19:30, and home before 'Casualty'...superb riding from Andy Wrightson, Richard Greer, Vince Tennant, John Williams, Luke Hutcheson, Karl Walton and me...here's to the next Randonneur adventure.

Great to see that the TT and racing season is well underway, with Ed Moss riding brilliantly on the Cheshire Points series 10mile TT, finishing in 22:37 in an event won by Charlie Tanfield no less....to Louise Crowley who, rather unfairly was the only female in a road race consisting of mainly Cat 2-3 riders, so did amazingly well to blast round and hold their wheel for some time, and our budding racer Matthew Russell, who raced at Curborough and finished top half in the U12 race despite being the youngest and smallest rider in the race. Well done all...don't forget - if you're racing or TT'ing, please post your results or even better, write a short summary on Facebook or wherever, as we only want to encourage more of the same.

Enjoy your week, you'll probably need your overshoes on for a bit longer, but hope to see you out on the road soon....and in the spirit of the encroaching summer, Neil Orchard will be publicising a new kit order sometime in the next week...watch out for that.

Phil