Saturday 5th December - Hour Challenge

This session was inspired by Alex Dowsett's announcement that he was going to attempt to set a new Hour Record on 5th December.  Unfortunately he had to postpone his attempt after he contracted COVID 19, but as we'd already scheduled our attempt we decided to go ahead.

Each lap of the school is 500m and all riders rode for an hour, taking a quick break if they needed one. Our first group of riders stacked up 131 laps or 65.5km and the second group added a further 97km or 48.5km. Great riding from everyone who took part!

Saturday 28th November - Gary's Zoom Bottle Pick

September 2020

September 2020 was a great month for us as we managed a little bit of everything.  The month kicked off with a road circuit session at Cyclopark hosted by Spring in the Park volunteers with help from club coaches from Kent Velo Kids and Redhill Raiders.

We also managed two weekends at Stocks Green where we ran our double session, with Go Ride first for our new and younger riders followed by an off site ride for our older and more experienced riders.  

Finally we squeezed in a trip to Herne Hill Velodrome that we shared with Bigfoot CC. 

Sadly, new restrictions introduced shortly after meant that was the end of our real life Saturdays for a while :-(

Saturday 22nd August - Hill Climb Challenge Ride

Hannah & Chris were in the driving seat for this one,  Chris arrived well prepared with a notebook, stopwatch & pen!

First stop, The White House

Everybody makes it to the top of Col de Coldharbour

Back at base, classic edition Go Ride medals all round.

Go Ride 15th August 2020

Michele and Calvin led the session today while I was swimming.......but not in Barden lake 😆

Saturday 8th August - Go Ride and Off Site

Another hot sunny day dawned and our willing gang were on hand to run Go Ride and an off site ride.

Michele led the skills today and everyone made huge progress on body position, looks like the session ended with an extreme limbo competition!

Our off site riders got a chance to practise their skills too and it looks like they made a little stop at the unofficial bike park next to Barden lake, well I guess I did tell them to stick to the shade!

Go Ride & Off Site Saturday 1st August

 

Another good turnout today and a wide range of ages and experiences.  Michele worked with some our new starters and younger riders, while Gary challenged our more experienced riders with some cyclocross skills.  

Getting to grips with gliding