It was a case of divide and conquer today; Michele headed off to Cyclopark as our club representative at the BC Club Cluster session with Jez and Calvin while myself, Damian and Claire were at Hillingdon for one of the national series races.
Thanks to Jez for the write up from Cyclopark:
KVK were invited to participate in a Go
Ride Club Cluster session at Cyclopark - A good opportunity to mix it up with
riders from other clubs in the region. With
this being half term week numbers were down but we still fielded six eager
riders. Michele took care of sign on and
the organisational duties.
Riders were offered the choice of either
mountain bike or road sessions. Franklin
and Joshua headed out with the mountain bike group to hone their skills on the
trails, whilst Jago joined the novice road group on the top oval to get to
grips with his new bike.
Nico, Oliver and Ivo linked up with the
intermediate/advanced road group on the lower oval. The session was led by Alan and Bruce from
SDW with the main focus being on group riding.
Calvin and I were tasked with pacing/herding duties as needed. The previous weekends SITP races had seen a
number of incidents, so the aim in the first part of the session was to
increase awareness of other riders whilst riding together in a group. The session started with some paced bunch
riding and then progressed onto practising chasing down a breakaway group of
riders. After a short break the focus
turned to working on sprinting. The
first activity had the riders sprinting out of the bottom turn for the full
length of the front straight. The riders
then moved to the middle oval where there were split into smaller groups for
some through and off sprinting up the main start/finish straight.
All in all a great club cluster session with everyone leaving with smiles on their faces – although that could have been more to do with the tasty hog roast on offer :-)
Sunday
A beautiful sunny day and we were heading down to the seaside!
Full report and photos to follow
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