Club Runs -28th April
Posted: 24 Apr 2019 09:41
two messages for the price of one this week:
WITH MY CHAIRMAN'S HAT ON....
Thanks to everyone who makes Beacon a thriving club. We don't just participate, we actually organise successful club runs, audaxes, road and cross races, time trials, young people events, track days, which is far more than other clubs do. We rise and fall however by having volunteers who can drive these events. Your committee had important gaps for nearly a year, but thanks to people stepping forward, we are a new bunch, with every post filled... We have met just twice but the spirit of the committee is to have a wide ranging and successful club, facilitating and paying for events as they come forward. However, the committee members are volunteers themselves of course. All of us organise things for Beacon as well as participate in events, juggling our normal lives, so although we encourage and enable others to do things, we can't do everything ourselves, or go to all events.
That's where you come in...we rise and fall by having volunteers and participants and those prepared to do something rather than just follow....and hence, please react and act when you can to help out. We have three upcoming events for example, the first is an hour of kids grass track racing at Rowheath on Bank Holiday Monday (May 6th). See Adrian Ravenscroft messages on the 'Club news & Events' thread on the message board. Take your kids along, or mention to others who may be interested, or why not go along for an hour and help out rather than sitting at home grouting your downstairs loo. Secondly, our 10mile open time trial is also looking for volunteers on Saturday June 15th...why not help out for a morning...and thirdly, we still need a couple of volunteers to help marshal the Enville round of the Thursday night SSSRRCCL race series on May 16th. All of these requests are on the message board and on facebook. It would really help us organisers if some non-organisers help out!
Finally, we reviewed our membership numbers at the last committee meeting, and there are a number of highly active club runners and racers who have not yet paid their 2019 Beacon membership. We know who you are!...and I'll mention it to you on a club run soon! Check with Andy Terry if you're not sure whether you've paid.
WITH MY CLUB RUN HAT ON...
19 riders out on Easter Sunday for a club run in the sun. Thanks to Ben Crone and Andy Terry for leading the A and C runs respectively but no B run last week
Plenty of other stuff going on of course, with perhaps top billing going to Simon Woodward, who not only rode the extremely difficult Cambrian 200kms audax over the Welsh mountains, but cycled to the start in Leominster and back home again after, making it a 340kms, 24 hour day...great stuff, Si. Perhaps grouting the downstairs loo isn't so bad after all.
We have an empty list this week, so again a call for leaders, let's get names down here, as it encourages waverers to come out when there is a named leader. Anyway, this week's rides are:
A: Upton - Nick Shenton
B: Ellendon Farm Shop - Harvington - Simon Woodward
c: Volunteer required
Women's ride on Saturday...news of that posted below and on facebook.
WITH MY CHAIRMAN'S HAT ON....
Thanks to everyone who makes Beacon a thriving club. We don't just participate, we actually organise successful club runs, audaxes, road and cross races, time trials, young people events, track days, which is far more than other clubs do. We rise and fall however by having volunteers who can drive these events. Your committee had important gaps for nearly a year, but thanks to people stepping forward, we are a new bunch, with every post filled... We have met just twice but the spirit of the committee is to have a wide ranging and successful club, facilitating and paying for events as they come forward. However, the committee members are volunteers themselves of course. All of us organise things for Beacon as well as participate in events, juggling our normal lives, so although we encourage and enable others to do things, we can't do everything ourselves, or go to all events.
That's where you come in...we rise and fall by having volunteers and participants and those prepared to do something rather than just follow....and hence, please react and act when you can to help out. We have three upcoming events for example, the first is an hour of kids grass track racing at Rowheath on Bank Holiday Monday (May 6th). See Adrian Ravenscroft messages on the 'Club news & Events' thread on the message board. Take your kids along, or mention to others who may be interested, or why not go along for an hour and help out rather than sitting at home grouting your downstairs loo. Secondly, our 10mile open time trial is also looking for volunteers on Saturday June 15th...why not help out for a morning...and thirdly, we still need a couple of volunteers to help marshal the Enville round of the Thursday night SSSRRCCL race series on May 16th. All of these requests are on the message board and on facebook. It would really help us organisers if some non-organisers help out!
Finally, we reviewed our membership numbers at the last committee meeting, and there are a number of highly active club runners and racers who have not yet paid their 2019 Beacon membership. We know who you are!...and I'll mention it to you on a club run soon! Check with Andy Terry if you're not sure whether you've paid.
WITH MY CLUB RUN HAT ON...
19 riders out on Easter Sunday for a club run in the sun. Thanks to Ben Crone and Andy Terry for leading the A and C runs respectively but no B run last week
Plenty of other stuff going on of course, with perhaps top billing going to Simon Woodward, who not only rode the extremely difficult Cambrian 200kms audax over the Welsh mountains, but cycled to the start in Leominster and back home again after, making it a 340kms, 24 hour day...great stuff, Si. Perhaps grouting the downstairs loo isn't so bad after all.
We have an empty list this week, so again a call for leaders, let's get names down here, as it encourages waverers to come out when there is a named leader. Anyway, this week's rides are:
A: Upton - Nick Shenton
B: Ellendon Farm Shop - Harvington - Simon Woodward
c: Volunteer required
Women's ride on Saturday...news of that posted below and on facebook.
