Kent Velo Kids

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Saturday 5th October - Cycling Nuts at Cyclopark

Hope, Ellen, Georgia, Toni, Luke, Polly and Sophie all arrived at Cyclopark ready for action. For Georgia, Luke and Sophie it was there first proper race. Nine clubs competed for prizes and points in a complicated system that managed to reward performance and sheer numbers of riders from each club. As ever all our riders performed well, no crashes, no tears, and a place on the podium for Hope in the U8's (1st place again).

Full results have yet to be published but a quick tally of riders and positions place Kent Velo Kids fifth out of the nine clubs competing - AMAZING, WELL DONE KVK.

A real treat was in store after the youth races, a Cat 4 men's race and a Cat3/4 women's race. Myself, Linda and Damian all took part, Bee was officiating. It was amazing to be racing with the kids cheering us on for a change. We managed to almost match the kids, no crashes, no tears and one podium place for Linda (3rd), but we certainly didn't drink as many milkshakes as them.

Next Go-Ride: Stocks Green School 1.45pm 12th October

Ride Out: longer ride with shorter option, suitable for mountain bikes.
Long route leaves Hildenborough, Coldharbour Lane 9am, joining shorter route at 9.30am Mote Road, Hildenborough. Riding on bridal paths and quiet lanes, with one BIG climb. Stopping for jelly babies at Ightham Mote before returning.

Please contact me if you would like to join this ride or have any queries

Saturday, 28 September 2013

Go ride 28th September 2013

Fourteen rides took part in our Go Ride session this afternoon. We focussed on pace, riding slowly and stopping. So you guessed it, lots of slow races and games of sardines and sumo. We tried the Pace Eight activity but just couldn't quite get it together!!

Next week there is no Go Ride session as we will be at Cyclopark for John Leitch's Cycling Nuts day.

Next Go Ride session 12th October
Next Ride: Ride Out start point TBC.

Youth Ride 28th September 2013

Our regular youth riders welcomed some new faces this week. We hope they'll join us again. Our regular Penshurst route up Col de Porc was awash with riders taking part in the Hever Triathlon. Many thanks to the patient drivers around this morning. We managed just over 15 miles, averaging 11 mph

Friday, 27 September 2013

KVK at the Tour of Britain

Hope and Ellen made it up to London to catch the Sunday racing of The Tour of Britain. They even managed to get their names on the leader board.

Monday, 23 September 2013

Go Ride Interclub at Cyclopark 21st September 2013

Road team, Polly, Toni, Sophia, Hope and Ellen

This was a great fun day of racing, just a few pictures to give you a flavour of the day, full results and more pictures to follow

MTB team, Cameron, Kirsty & Luke

There were loads of riders

Spot the jelly babies!!

Our lucky four leaf clover

Saturday 14th September - New Year at KVK

Today was our first session back after the summer break. We kicked off with a ride up Col de Coldharbour, we had to add a loop as these guys are really motoring now. Back to Westwood in double quick time, all ready for our afternoon session at Stocks Green.

Fifteen riders signed on for today's session, the focus was "useful skills". Kicked off with one of our old favourites; saddle push. We managed to incorporate all skills levels by getting our older riders to perform the technique backwards with the wrong hand - they found it tricky to start with but picked it up quickly enough. We followed on with some bottle techniques, favourite game turned out to be passing and collecting bottles randomly from parents and helpers dotted around the playground.

After the session a few riders had a go at riding on the rollers, I'm sure they will all have mastered this before too long.

Fantastic day spent with the KVK, a year of hard work on their part is really showing now with fitness and skills levels improving all the time. Well done guys, looking forward to another great year.

Sorry no photos today I forgot!