CRABWOOD SPRING NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2017
The club dinner.
This year was yet again held at The Wellow Golf club, yet again the food was excellent. We also enjoyed the speech given by our guest Steve Whitewick, he told us about how he took up cycling at a later age and of the good times riding with Julian Jenkinson. I would like to congratulate all the trophy winners especially Pat who was deservedly awarded the wooden spoon. Thanks to Claire and Roy for organising the dinner.
I would like to welcome David Hanbury to the club. David has been on the racing scene for a few years, and as a member of The VTTA he will giving Dave England some competition.
Social rides.
Sunday 9th April, The Wheatsheaf, Braishfield.
Sunday 30th April, The Hampshire Bowman, Dundridge.
Sunday 21st May, The Black Horse, West Tytherley
Meet at Redbridge 9.30, The Plaza Romsey or meet at the pub 12.00
TIME TRIALS
It’s that time of year again to dust off your skin suits and aero helmets and get the book of excuses out. It’s time trial season. Below is the list of the Crabwood club events. Any volunteers to help with marshalling would be much appreciated.
|
DAY |
DATE |
CLUB |
DISTANCE (M) |
COURSE |
START TIME |
HQ |
|
Thursday |
13th April |
Crabwood CC |
10 |
P164c |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Thursday |
27th April |
Crabwood CC |
10 |
P164c |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Thursday |
4th May |
Crabwood CC |
10 |
P164c |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Thursday |
25th May |
Crabwood CC |
10 |
P164c |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Thursday |
8th June |
Crabwood CC |
15 |
P164/15 |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Weds |
22nd June |
B&DWCA (Club champs) |
25 |
P128/25 |
19:00 |
A336 Bartley layby |
|
Tues |
4th July |
New Forest CC |
10 |
P164C |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Weds |
26th July |
Crabwood CC (Club champs) |
10 |
P164c |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Thursday |
10th August |
Crabwood CC |
10 |
P164c |
19:00 |
Parc Pale |
|
Sunday |
3rd Sept |
Crabwood CC |
10 |
P164c |
09:30 |
Parc Pale |
|
Sunday |
24th Sept |
Crabwood CC |
Hill-climb |
Bolderwood |
10:30 |
TBA |
CRABWOOD CYCLO-CROSS. THE GEOFF SHERGOLD MEMORIAL CYCLO-CROSS.
Despite the forecast for heavy rain throughout the day the morning started dry and we only had a slight shower in the middle of the senior race which didn’t come to anything. Alexander Forrester riding for Zepnat.com mastered the muddy conditions at Southampton Sports Centre to win the penultimate race in this season’s league. The tricky slippery conditions caused riders across all the races to select different lines and in some parts of the course riders preferred to dismount and run some sections.
A big thank you to Kerie for organising the event. And thank you to everybody who volunteered over the weekend.
Winner of the Vet 50 and women event Tim Costello GS Vecchi,
1st Lady Helen Pattison Hargroves-Ridley-Montezuma.
Vet 40 – 49 and Junior event. Winner Dan Guest Cotswold Veldrijdin.
1st Junior Callum Macleod Palmer Park Velo
For those of you who don’t know Pat has recently bought a tandem, as you can see here he is getting in some training with his new tandem partner.