SouthportCC
are planning to organize training sessions in the club room through the winter. Two computer trainers will be made available for competitive session; the club also owns several turbo trainers and some roller. Plans are to have a weekly session for women only as we have a lady coach. Training session for younger members are also planned.
SouthportCC rider Jim Henderson
finished with a very creditable third place in the National Hill Climb Championship 2009 held in Stockbridge near Sheffield. The full results can be found using the link www.ctt.org.uk/Home/tabid/36/itemid/1617/Default.aspx
Subscriptions are now due for 2010. Membership is £25 for adults and £35 for family membership.
Payment can be made at the club hut on Monday evenings or by cheque payable to Southport Cycling Club sent to Ken Beck at
18 Melrose Ave Southport.
A club membership card will be issued as a receipt.
Please make a payment as soon as possible to ensure we can keep your club running.Despite the cold weather at the start of the new year several riders turned out on the New Years Day ride through the pine
woods at Freshfield and on the Iron Men at Crosby.
The following day, Saturday, there was a good turn out for the Saturday morning ride to the Fettler's Warfe cafe at Rufford. Sunday was again cold but a group of 8
made it to the Priory Cafe at Scorton; this is the most expensive brew stop in the area but its location close to the A6 made it bearable. just.
A report on the New Years Day ride to Crosby beach by Allan Taylor
Distance was just on 32
miles, there were about 15 people, we left the club house at 9.30.am and were back at Pontins roundabout by about 12.40. Weather was very nice but cold - Malcom Heathcote
enjoyed riding through the ice on every frozen puddle he crossed and also detours off the main route to add interest.
Peter Gawthorne was our Ranger leader and kept us on the right track.
This is a link to the route we followed this morning
http://www.mapmyride.com/route/gb/ainsdale/646126237010345860 Pete Gawthorne's account of the ride is on NewYearsDay2010 page Colin Baldwin
won the 2009 Boxing Day 10. Full results are on the Boxing Day 10
pageThe final event in the 2009 club calendar, the SouthportCC Boxing Day 10
will start at the Weld Rd roundabout and head along the coast road, round the Pontins roundabout and back to the finish at Weld Rd. The distance is 10km. The club room will be open from 10:30 on Saturday morning for riders to sign on. The first rider will be off at 11:01 All entries on-the-line, everyone welcome to take part. Refreshments will be available after the event for riders, marshalls and spectators. p.s. no excuses please.
Despite the bad weather over the past few months some of the SouthportCC riders have continued to complete long distance rides.
Malcolm Heathcote, Pete Gawthorne, Allan Taylor and Steve Ginty have taken
part in the 200km rides organised by Audax. The event last weekend started in Rochdale at 8:00am. After riding through freezing fog to Settle the stretch to Kirby Lonsdale and down the Lune Valley was in bright sunshine
but this cooled down on the drag over the moors to Hasligdon then back to Rochdale just before dusk having climbed 2500 metres in 130 miles.
More Audax rides are planned for March, details are on the club website
Audax page By all accounts the SouthportCC Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation was a very good
night, the dinner was excellent, the music (band) was a bit loud (as usual)! Prizes were presented by Steve Dolan from Ormskirk based Dolan Cycles,
Bill Lloyd did an excellent job with the presentation and about 90 sat down to dinner.
The awards were presented as follows :
BAR... Bill Sedgwick
Vets BAR... Bill Sedgwick
Short Distance BAR... Bill Sedgwick
Ladies BAR... Diane Davis
Indoor Track Championship (Velodrome) Martin Phillips
25 mile T.T. Champion... Dave Hilton
!0 Mile T.T. Champion... Rob Hurst
Vets. 10 Mile T.T. Champion... Bill Lloyd
Juvenile 10 Mile T.T. Champion Andy Judge
Senior R.R. Champion... Steve Clark
(Up)Hill Climb Champion.. Andy Grice
Down Hill Champion.. Len Collins
Randonneur... Neville Holgate
Boxing Day '10' 2007 Steve Ginty
Indoor Trainer Champion Len Collins
1/2 Wheel Trophy Andy Grice
Norman Rimmer Handicap '25' Pete Leonard
Neil Smith Memorial '25' Pete Leonard
Centenary Shield 1 Mile Champion... Steve Duffell
The SouthportCC Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation will be held this Friday,28 November.
The scheduled for the 89 starters is meeting from 7:00 PM with the meal commencing at 7:30 PM.
No E.O.L. The AGM of the Southport Cycling Club will be held at the clubroom on Monday 15
December 2008
at 20.00hrs. Any member having items or proposals for inclusion in the agenda should send them to the Secretary no later than 1st December 2008.The Downhill Competition with 16 starters was won for the
third year in a row and by a wide margin by Len Collins
1. Len Collins
2. Bill Lloyd
3. Dave Abram
4. Ken Beck
Lennies attributes his success to his colourful diet, red wine and blue cheese. It
should be noted that Dave Abram using the pie recovery diet after his recent knee operation could only manage 3rd place.
SouthportCC
member Margaret Sims held a coffee morning on Friday 26th September at the cycling clubroom in Victoria Park from 10:30 to 12:30 to raise funds for the Macmillan Charity.
Margaret and her assistants
would like to thank everyone who attended and made a generous contribution to the worthy cause. Over £360
was raise; all proceeds go to the Macmillan Nurses Charity.
A special thank
you must go to Brian Wharton for his supply of home made scones, with home made raspberry jam from his allotment. (jam butty mine ?) The Tour of Britain
passed through Southport on 14th Sept. The peleton rode down Lord Street on the way from the stage start in Blackpool to the finish in Liverpool. Club member Brian Bladon persuaded the Tour organizers to hold a sprint outside the Town Hall
There are some photos of the riders on the Tour_of_Britain page.
Sefton Council arranged some cycling and health awareness related promotions outside the Town Hall, with an oppertunity to ride on a computer
simulator, see photos on Sefton Cycling; freebies were dished out and assorted side shows promoted exercise..
Some photos of members of SouthportCC
demonstrating how to use the equipment are on the SCC_pix page.
The turnout for the event was massive and the weather was ideal.
Colin Baldwin, who co-ordinated the support by
SouthportCC
members, would like say "Ta very much for your efforts, everyone thought the day was a huge success and to get the decent weather was a bonus.
My thanks to everyone who turned up and helped out in one way or another."
Well done to all involved. The Bill Bradley Memorial rides held in July
around the Forest of Bowland and the Lancashire Fylde raise £1200 for the Macmillan Nurses Charity. Waitrose Formby
supported the event, and provided energy drinks, water, biscuits etc, that were appreciated by all the rides on one of the hottest Sunday's of the year.
There is a report of the Etape de Tour 2008 completed by SouthportCC riders Peter and Malcolm. The story is particularly interesting as the pair organized their own transports, digs, entry forms etc.
To read the story hit this link Etape 2008The first of the 2009 SouthportCC
school peoples races will be held on Saturday 21st March in Victoria Park; racing will be on for the next two Saturdays, 28th March and 4th April
Marshalls required to support Ken in running the events please.
Terry Dolan of Dolan Bikes, Ormskirk has donated some frames, jerseys and a large selection of cycling swag for prizes
There is more information about the prizes and the start list on the Dolan Races 2009 page on this site.There are maps of the course around Victoria park on the Circuits page
Last weekend the
North West Cycling Development races were held in the park with 137 starters.With only 2 weeks to the start of the club Thursday night Time Trial series rumour has it the Jason Vickery is doing some serious training
with tri-bars fitted ! Could club members who will be undertaking the CRB checks as part of the youth training programme have a look on the CRB
page for information on completing the forms. These are to be returned completed by 16th March.Results of the 250m TT held at the Manchester Velodrome are on the Track Night page.
I have contacted our fellow cyclists in Mons about the Mons-Chimay-Mons ride in Belgium on 1st May.
see half way down the Mons page.
Let me know if you are up for it. I
will try to sort out the ferry when I have numbers etc.On 9th Feb. a meeting was held at SouthportCC
club hut to discuss Grass Roots Cycling and Club Kit, revised price list. There are pages now on this site. Use these links Grass Roots and Club Kit
The 2009 Bill Bradley Memorial Rides are being organised by
SouthportCC and
will be held on 26th July. For more information and images from previous events see the Bill_Bradley_Memorial_Rides
page
SouthportCC is planning a series of events to take place in the spring and summer in and around Victoria Park.
The events will cost
quite a bit to put on and we have asked for a grant from the Merseyside Community Foundation Grass Roots Award Scheme. We have been notified that our bid was successful and we have been awarded £5000 over the next 3
years; volunteers will be required.
Details will emerge as the final arrangements are made. For the Go Ride Project
we need to get ourselves organised so we meet all the conditions and criteria of the award.
A meeting will be held at the club house on Tuesday 17 Feb at 7:30 PM to discuss the way forward.
All who are willing to contribute are invited to attend.There is an obituary of Bob Bird
on a page on this site, written by Paul MayorCraig has added more material to YouTube relating to club activities, use this link
www.youtube.com/southportcc Here is a link to a website run by ex SouthportCC rider Ray Green, this article refers to some of
his accomplaces who are still active local cyclists. Ramon has retired to the South Coast
http://greenjersey.wordpress.com/tag/cycling/the-worlds/
Also on Ray's site are some of his unbiased
opinions of all things cycling, here is an example :
"I'll keep this short or my blood pressure will go through
the roof. What about Duffield's commentary at the Dauphine Libere? He must be having a laugh at the viewing publics' expense. Lets be clear about this, he is absolutely bloody useless. He talks drivel in an endless
stream of cliches. You could go in any cyclists' cafe in the country and say "anybody fancy doing a bit of commentary on the tele ?" and find a bunch of people who would do a better job than that clown. In the old days
I put up with his crap as he would occasionally identify a rider I didn't recognise but now he seems only to know "Vineykrov" so I use the mute button".
Pete Leonard raised over £2000 on his LEJOG ride in May this year; and would like to thanks everyone for their help.
An account of the ride is on the LEJOG_2007 page. Pete's diary from his LEJOG ride in 1998 is on this site on it's own page.
I won't spoil the story by telling you what happened in the end, but it is well worth
reading all the way through !
The results for the SouthportCC OPEN 25 mile Time Trial incorporating the Neil Smith & Norman Rimmer Memorial Trophies is on the Open 25 July page. SouthportCC riders Nev Holgate and Terry Seanor
rode a 600km, 373 mile, Audax from Preston to Edinburgh and back. Setting off on Sunday 13th July they completed the journey in 38 hours. As both rides are 70+ this achievement is even more remarkable. Terry and Nev are half way to their target of completing a Round-the-year-Randoneur, by having ridden at least a 200km event in each month this year; incuding some 300km and 400km rides.
For several years SouthportCC
has been campaigning to have the old railway bridge over the River Douglas at Hesketh Bank reinstated as a foot and cycle crossing; the road bridge on the A59 at Bank Hall is narrow and on a bend. At a cycle group meeting at LCC in Preston on Thursday night, attended by Ken, Lancashire County Council announced a competition is to be held to design a new bridge over the River Douglas at the site of the old Hesketh Bank station. The bridge is to be a bridle way and cycle route. A company called Remade (part of LCC) are the promoters and the North West Regional Development Agency are also involved. More information about the project can be found on
www.riverdouglas.co.uk/
There are some images of the old bridge on www.heskethbank.com/history/photos/railway.html
There is some information about the Tour of Britain support races on this site. see the Tour of Britain page. Waitrose Formby have generously offered to support the
SouthportCC
Bill Bradley Ride on the 27thJuly. The event is in support of the Macmillan Nurses Appeal, and has a choice
of 3 route, to suit differing abilities.
All the rides are through the quiter lanes of Lancashire's Forest of Bowland.
Thanks to Waitrose Formby
we will have some goodies for the riders.
For information on the ride see the 2008 BBradley rides
page on this site. Ken and Nev
were at RAF Woodvale on Friday night helping a fund raising effort by the ATC at Woodvale. They were taking riders from St Dunstans, the blind charity, round the airfield on
the back of Nev's tandem.
Well done to the pair of them for supporting this worthwhile cause |
