What a wonderful year we had! I think this is down to two things, namely the hard work and input by all the Club officials and helpers and the pretty fantastic rides done by our riders.
Again we have had a busy Road Race season and a pretty successful one at that, with many points being gained by all. We really are getting a name for ourselves, doing particularly well in the UCI Cambridge close road event; With thousands of riders, ours all finished in the top 225 places. This means, wait for it! that all of our riders actually qualified to go to the World Championships in Australia. Sadly the cost was prohibitive . However, in 2017 they are riding the event again, hoping to qualify, and if successful will find the Wold Championships a little closer to home, in fact just across the Channel in France.
Time Trialing in the club has moved up to a new level this year. David Veitch did some superb rides this year, he broke the club record for the 25 miles, with a time of 50:54 , the 10 mile record with a time of 20:07 and a brilliant second place ride in our Comet 25.
Onto The Dick Murphy Memorial Trophy; we had not been privileged to win this for quite a number of years but this year we did! With team made up of James Hodges, Colin Ross and Adam Bishop.
All our LVCC riders out performed themselves this year, and I heartily congratulate you all
The best improver award could not be awarded this year because everybody so excelled themselves who could we possibly pick?!
The Velo Park Ten's as always a success, this is in no doubt down to the stalwart efforts of Joe Mumford who as ever, (and know I said last year) we are indebted to. The number of riders was as high as ever and an enjoyable time was seemingly had by all. We have been very praised for our organisation of the series, and it has been mentioned that other clubs wish they could do like wise.
It has taken an immense amount of energy and time to run this series, but it has bought the club valuable financial gains, also recognition and dare I say a certain amount of kudos.
We have an urgent matter pertaining to this series next year, because next year we have to have transponders in place. (We are hoping that the cost will be split three ways between us and two other clubs.) This said we will still need 5 or so people in the box, so don't all think that you can take a day off!
Stephen Maunder our Club Secretary for over five years now has passed the batten on to who knows yet, I would like to take this opportunity to thank him so much for his contribution to Club life, because he had a very unenviable task in many ways as he brought us, the club onto the social media scene. Our Club pages have really been invaluable in getting ourselves recognition to a wider public, and this really is all down to Stephen, it has had such a direct impact on our increased membership. We are now going to have a team in this field which we are grateful that Stephen is going to be a part of. Again thank you Stephen.
Onto Club Runs , they continue to grow from strength to strength and has been so well attended throughout the year, rain or shine, culminating last Sunday with more people than I can count, and I can count right up to 50! Seriously there were getting on for 40 plus.
There were 4 rides organised all of different of levels, one being, our first all Ladies ride, which was extremely well organised, well attended, well enjoyed and hopefully the start of many.
Ride London must also be mentioned, this really was a great success for us. We had a total of 27 riders, 4 or 5 of which were representing charities of their choice, David Veitch finished in the first group and came in 17th out of 26,000....true! In a fantastic time of 3:58; Carsten came in 4 hours dead because of a mechanical problem and many of other members finished within 4:15
@Edward
The Presidents Report 2016
What a wonderful year we had! I think this is down to two things, namely the hard work and input by all the Club officials and helpers and the pretty fantastic rides done by our riders.
Again we have had a busy Road Race season and a pretty successful one at that, with many points being gained by all. We really are getting a name for ourselves, doing particularly well in the UCI Cambridge close road event; With thousands of riders, ours all finished in the top 225 places. This means, wait for it! that all of our riders actually qualified to go to the World Championships in Australia. Sadly the cost was prohibitive . However, in 2017 they are riding the event again, hoping to qualify, and if successful will find the Wold Championships a little closer to home, in fact just across the Channel in France.
Time Trialing in the club has moved up to a new level this year. David Veitch did some superb rides this year, he broke the club record for the 25 miles, with a time of 50:54 , the 10 mile record with a time of 20:07 and a brilliant second place ride in our Comet 25.
Onto The Dick Murphy Memorial Trophy; we had not been privileged to win this for quite a number of years but this year we did! With team made up of James Hodges, Colin Ross and Adam Bishop.
All our LVCC riders out performed themselves this year, and I heartily congratulate you all
The best improver award could not be awarded this year because everybody so excelled themselves who could we possibly pick?!
The Velo Park Ten's as always a success, this is in no doubt down to the stalwart efforts of Joe Mumford who as ever, (and know I said last year) we are indebted to. The number of riders was as high as ever and an enjoyable time was seemingly had by all. We have been very praised for our organisation of the series, and it has been mentioned that other clubs wish they could do like wise.
It has taken an immense amount of energy and time to run this series, but it has bought the club valuable financial gains, also recognition and dare I say a certain amount of kudos.
We have an urgent matter pertaining to this series next year, because next year we have to have transponders in place. (We are hoping that the cost will be split three ways between us and two other clubs.) This said we will still need 5 or so people in the box, so don't all think that you can take a day off!
Stephen Maunder our Club Secretary for over five years now has passed the batten on to who knows yet, I would like to take this opportunity to thank him so much for his contribution to Club life, because he had a very unenviable task in many ways as he brought us, the club onto the social media scene. Our Club pages have really been invaluable in getting ourselves recognition to a wider public, and this really is all down to Stephen, it has had such a direct impact on our increased membership. We are now going to have a team in this field which we are grateful that Stephen is going to be a part of. Again thank you Stephen.
Onto Club Runs , they continue to grow from strength to strength and has been so well attended throughout the year, rain or shine, culminating last Sunday with more people than I can count, and I can count right up to 50! Seriously there were getting on for 40 plus.
There were 4 rides organised all of different of levels, one being, our first all Ladies ride, which was extremely well organised, well attended, well enjoyed and hopefully the start of many.
Ride London must also be mentioned, this really was a great success for us. We had a total of 27 riders, 4 or 5 of which were representing charities of their choice, David Veitch finished in the first group and came in 17th out of 26,000....true! In a fantastic time of 3:58; Carsten came in 4 hours dead because of a mechanical problem and many of other members finished within 4:15