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Club Cyclo-Cross Race at Knights Templar - 4th October
Hi all,
Our Cyclo-cross promotion at Knights Templar will be on Saturday 4th October.
This year the event is not a league race. Instead we will have the club cyclo-cross championships. There will be open races for Under 10s and Under 12s and Youth riders - best CCA performances for the club titles. There will be a CCA only race for members aged 16+. We want everyone in the club with an off-road bike of some sort to come and take part. The event will finish with an open race for those aged 16+ which has to be entered on-line.
Everyone who wants to take part will need to help with the event, whether it's signing on, building the course, marshaling the other races or taking the course down. We will also need a catering team.
The more helpers we have the easier it will be to put on the event.
Mark.
Our Cyclo-cross promotion at Knights Templar will be on Saturday 4th October.
This year the event is not a league race. Instead we will have the club cyclo-cross championships. There will be open races for Under 10s and Under 12s and Youth riders - best CCA performances for the club titles. There will be a CCA only race for members aged 16+. We want everyone in the club with an off-road bike of some sort to come and take part. The event will finish with an open race for those aged 16+ which has to be entered on-line.
Everyone who wants to take part will need to help with the event, whether it's signing on, building the course, marshaling the other races or taking the course down. We will also need a catering team.
The more helpers we have the easier it will be to put on the event.
Mark.
Comments
Can those who can help out please start signing up.
Thanks,
Mark.
Is the gap between the CCA race and the Open race likely to be long enough to allow people to enter both?
I'm also happy to course build and marshal. I'll try to bake a cake.
Link to the on-line entry HERE
Daniel
Mark B
Bryn
Jez
Cheers
Scott.
There is no advance entry for the CCA 16+ race. It will be entry on the day and you will need to have helped out in some way. The race will be 40 minutes.
That is followed by the youth race so there will be time to recover if you want to enter the Open event which is advance entry only.
Mark.
Peter
Stuart
Can you do First Aid?
Thanks,
Mark.
Thanks,
Mark.
I am ok to set up the course. Have lots going on that day but would like to ride the club event and for girls to ride the under 10 event. Can you give me an idea of the race start times to coordinate my day withmy other commitments.
Cheers
We're also happy to help.
Lindsey
See you at 8am tomorrow if poss. Plenty of work to set out the course. There will be time for you to pre-ride the course. If necessary we will start the club race a little bit later or have a neutralised first lap.
Mark.
The senior club championship which was a race in two parts. Bryn and John battling out who would become the 2014 club champion miles ahead of the mortals. Bryn got the better of John in this tactical chess game.
Great to see a good turn out in the women's race too (Linda, we need you in the league).
I will leave it to the Youth to describe their races.
John and I stayed on for the open race after lunch and the rain meant that the course was completely different; pretty slippery! I have to say I enjoyed both the dry and wet edition.
The CCA only race was great fun to be a part of. Good to see some new faces giving cross a try. I thoroughly enjoyed the battle with John, although it got strangely tactical once we had a gap on 3rd place and neither of us particularly wanted to work into the wind too much. As much as anything else, I think it was decided on the slippery corners as the rain intensified.
Here are a few photos Dad took, none of them are that great (no offence Dad) but I do like the ones of the blue starting grid:
How to get on the front row of the grid: don't invite anyone else to the race. Simple. (I particularly love Ian's grin...?)
Within fractions of a second, Daniel adopts his standard race face.
I hope you didn't come to any injury in our little tumble - I have a chainring imprint on the side of my skinsuit - not sure if mine or yours
Thanks to Mark for organizing, and all the helpers for erm, helping. Good day.
Tim kept his position in third after my first two laps or so holding that third podium position. My nemesis Stuart was on my tail as usual so I neutralised the chase and he kindly obliged doing a good turn on the front to put Tim back in reach. but then the three peaks knocked Stuart a bit and I followed Tim in fourth place. Well that was it really. Tim kept his lead and slightly increased it at the end with my final spurt hampered by a poor assent of the mound. Nathanial, out of respect for his elders let me keep fourth but was making headway until the last half of the final lap. So that is third, fourth and fith.
What happened behind us?
brn and John, excellent riding.
Mark and all who helped, many thanks for a superb event. Good turn out for the club cross. More next year though. A mention must go to James who turned up and rode in trainers. Respect.
Vincent
Mark.
I was quite enjoying the rain by the end and the changing nature of the course was interesting. Also enjoyed watching the open event on the tricky off camber left hander, lots of sliding around on the floor there!
Like the photos too, thanks.
Shelton
For those of us not on FB can you put some of it on here?