February 2012

First SPOCO of the season

The standings after the first SPOCO event of the 2012 season, the Coalville Wheelers Hilly, can be viewed at http://spoco.midlanddc.org.uk

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VTTA Awards Lunch 2012

Miranda Harris writes:

On a cold and very windy day, VTTA members, new and old came together to celebrate another year of Awards and enjoy a very convivial lunch. Before the main proceedings begun, there was exchange of winter training progress and plans for the forthcoming season. Mark Mullender, under 50's and Age Group winner has to take the opportunity to train and race whenever he can, with shift work patterns dictating how many hours he can devote to his sport. On the other hand, Gary Shuker with three standard medals 10, 25 and 50 miles and two personal bests over 25 and 50 miles devotes 23 hours a week to training and wants to go faster this year as a result of all this hard work. Michael Deamon, 25 mile Handicap winner, expressed a desire to improve on his time of 57.46 but has to be satisfied with eight hours a week with 60 miles being his longest ride.

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Midlands Women’s TT Series 2012

Nadine, Suzy and Beth with their medals awarded by Banbury Star CC

Nadine, Suzy and Beth with their medals awarded by Banbury Star CC

Former winners - Aims - Events - Entry - Conditions - Registering - Tips for novices

Welcome to the 6th Midlands Women’s TT Series! Over the past five years more than 70 women have taken part in our Series; some have been experienced time triallists while others have been completely new to the sport. No matter how fast or slow you are the aim is to try out a variety of time trial events around the Midlands, meet other women cyclists, make some new friends and get that ‘buzz’ from racing which is like no other.

Time trialling on a bike is ‘the race of truth’ – there is no hiding once the timekeeper counts you down and you set off to try and complete the distance as fast as you can. Only you can decide how hard you’re going to push yourself. All there is between you and the chequered flag is an open road. What could be simpler? What could be a purer test of each individual rider?

All the details you need to know about the Series and the individual events should be here but if you are unsure about anything please don’t hesitate to contact me. If you are a newcomer and you would like to get involved, drop me a message and I’ll make sure you get a warm welcome and all the email communications about the Series.

Do come and join in and I hope to see you at an event soon.

Ruth Eyles
Series Administrator
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