Free training for Stafford RC members

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Hello everyone

 

As part of our clubs commitment to providing a safe environment for us all to enjoy our cycling. The Stafford RC committee has decided that it will arrange for free first aid training for its members. This will help ensure that if we were ever to encounter a rider or member of the public who requires first aid then hopefully there would be one or two qualified first aiders in each group to offer some assistance.

 

If you are interested please let me know ASAP. When you reply please let me know your preference for a Saturday, Sunday or week nights. Then hopefully we can find a first aid trainer who can fit in around us.

 

I look forward to hearing from you and making arrangements for the training

 

Safe cycling

 

Alastair

 

chairman@staffordrc.org

 

 

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Good Luck to all our Stafford RC Riders

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We have one of the busiest weekends of the year for Stafford RC members coming up and I wanted to wish everyone good luck in the many and varied events they are taking part in

  1. All the riders taking part in the Come and Give it a Go 5 mile TT on Saturday and well done to Roger Morris and his team for hosting it.
  2. Anyone, and I am sure there are a few SRC members riding the Brewood Cycling Challenge www.brewoodcyclechallenge.com/
  3. Andy Prince, Matt Alcock and Hugh Canning riding for Stafford RC in the Charlie Betteley Road Race and thanks to Ade and his team of vols hosting the event.
  4. Richard Hill, and the riders coached by our very own Martin Tolley who are taking part in the Stafford Ironman event
  5. Andrew Wilde and Co riding the  Shropshire Highland Challenge
  6. Dominic Weston – Velothon Wales ride in Cardiff
  7. Martin Moore, April and Melvyn Lewis riding for Stafford RC in the K16/25 TT

I hope the sun shines on you all wherever cycling takes you this weekend and for a podium place for all those in competition.

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Stafford Road Club is again hosting its annual Come and Give it a GO 5 mile Time Trial event aimed at encouraging new riders into the sport of cycling.

Do not worry if you are not a member of a club or have never ridden a time trial before, this day is geared to cater for the complete novice as well as more experienced riders.

For some it’s an opportunity to see just what it takes to ride against the clock over a given distance and see how you too match up against the professionals riding in this year Tour de France.

Entry is on the day and costs £3/rider (£2 of your entry fee has to be paid out to the CTT as levies) . Prizes will also be awarded on the day to some of the fastest novice riders.  Signing on will be from 9:00am in the HQ (Great Bridgeford Village Hall, ST18 9PR).   Full details can be found below

We hope to see you there on the day for another friendly event designed for cyclists of all abilities.  Please spread the word and encourage your friends and neighbours to come and give it a go

Safe Cycling

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Come and Give it a go 2015 poster

Parental Consent form

Course map LINK

for more details contact Alastair on 07914 756 796 or webmail@staffordrc.org

 

 

Women specific training rides

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Now that the evenings are getting lighter Stafford Road Club will be running another female tempo paced training session.

These started on Wednesday 13th May and run every week apart from the 3rd June until the 12th August. The session will start at 19:00 the Mill in Stafford opposite Sainsbury’s car park and be led by Wendy Anderson.

The ride will be about 1.5hrs long building to 20miles on a hilly route out towards Stone. The focus will be building pace on hill climbs and pushing your normal riding pace from 15mph to 19-20mph average and working as a team. Please bring lights with you and high visable clothing.

The ride is open to non club members who maybe interrested in joining a club and will not go if it is heavy rain. Please contact Wendy on Wendy@staffordrc.org if you are interrested.

If you are very new to cycling and want to have some coaching first please visit www.staffordbc.gov.uk/wheelsaroundstaffordandstone for an alternative free coaching option ran by Stafford Borough Council and Stafford County Council.

St Leonards Cycling Festival…6th June Stafford

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St Leonard’s school is hosting 3 cycling rides to help promote health active lifestyles to children (and grown ups too) and raise funds to facilitate this through the the year.

Great routes, 10km family ride and 60 & 100km sportives.

Full details of routes and entry’s can be found on their website

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Women specific training rides start this week

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Now that the evenings are getting lighter Stafford Road Club will be running another female tempo paced training session.

This will start on Wednesday evening 13th May and run every week apart from the 3rd June until the 12th August. The session will start at 19:00 the Mill in Stafford opposite Sainsbury’s car park and be led by Wendy Anderson.

The ride will be about 1.5hrs long building to 20miles on a hilly route out towards Stone. The focus will be building pace on hill climbs and pushing your normal riding pace from 15mph to 19-20mph average and working as a team. Please bring lights with you and high visable clothing.

The ride is open to non club members who maybe interrested in joining a club and will not go if it is heavy rain. Please contact Wendy on Wendy@staffordrc.org if you are interrested.

If you are very new to cycling and want to have some coaching first please visit www.staffordbc.gov.uk/wheelsaroundstaffordandstone for an alternative free coaching option ran by Stafford Borough Council and Stafford County Council.

Stafford RC Monday night club rides start again April 20th

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Now that the evenings are getting lighter our regular club rides will begin again on Monday evenings.  The rides leave for 18:45 from the windmill which is situated on the roundabout opposite Stafford college close to Sainsbury’s.

The rides will follow the usual routes through the lanes west of Stafford arriving back about 20:15.  Steady pace, go out as a group and back as a group.  Depending on numbers the ride will be split into groups with Chris B and John C been the regular ride leaders.

Due to the size of the county lanes it will be best for everyone’s safety and to show due consideration to other road users for the groups to be of 8 to 12 riders rather than 18 to 22 as we have had in the past.  So please follow the instruction of the ride leaders on the night as to how many groups we will have.  You may need lights for the first few weeks as it will be getting dark as we arrive back.

Look forward to seeing you all on these weekly rides.  But remember if it’s ‘raining cats and dogs’ it’s more than likely that the ride leaders will decide to have a night off.  These rides will run through till later September when the nights start drawing in again.

Tour of Yorkshire 1 – 3 May 2015

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Look like it will be a great event with many of the Pro Teams represented

http://letour.yorkshire.com/

so if you are looking for something to do over the back holiday weekend why not find a nice B&B in East Yorkshire and cycle out each day to watch one or two sections of each days racing, and hopefully th esun wil be shining too

 

Local Club Time Trials near Stafford

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Here is a full list of events taking place on courses close to Stafford which you may which to ride as part of your training or event series.  This list is filtered from the events list available via http://www.midlanddc.org.uk.

Stafford RC is keen to support Brereton Wheelers events to help build up the number of riders participating so hopefully you will be able to take part in one or two of these.

Select the course to open up details of route.  You will need to go to specific club website for more details.

 

Day Date Time Distance Course Club Notes
Sun 22/02/2015 09:00 10.00 Miles Club K7/10 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Dunston, , Come & Try It
Sun 08/03/2015 10:00 23.00 Miles Club K48/23 Stafford Road Club Weston, (Hilly). Sign on in layby on A51
Sun 15/03/2015 10:00 23.00 Miles Club K48/23 Stafford Road Club Weston, (Hilly)Sign on in layby on A51
Sun 29/03/2015 08:00 50.00 Miles Club K7/50 Stafford Road Club Dunston (Sign on in layby on A449)
Tue 31/03/2015 19:00 5.00 Miles Club K17/5n Mercia Lloyds cc Sign on in club room
Sun 05/04/2015 10:00 10.00 Miles Club K49/10 Brereton Wheelers Hilly 10. Signing-on in layby at start
Sun 05/04/2015 08:30 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Stafford Road Club Dunston (Sign on in layby on A449)
Tue 07/04/2015 19:00 5.00 Miles Club K17/5n Mercia Lloyds cc Sign on in clubroom
Tue 07/04/2015 18:30 5.00 Miles Club K17/5F Lichfield City Cycling Club Flat, Start just past milestone on your left heading towards Alrewas
Wed 08/04/2015 18:30 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Stafford Road Club pottal Pool (Sign on at Start on A34 )
Tue 14/04/2015 18:30 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Pottal Pool, Come & Try It
Tue 21/04/2015 18:45 5.00 Miles Club K17/5W Lichfield City Cycling Club Hilly, Start on the Old A5. At the end of Flats Lane turn Right in 100m on your Right will be the start.
Tue 21/04/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K48/10 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Weston, Come and Try It
Wed 29/04/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K48/10 Stafford Road Club Weston (Sign on at Start near to sandy lane)
Tue 05/05/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K17/10L Lichfield City Cycling Club Sporting, Start at Cleat Hill Lay-by southern end by first drain cover.
Wed 06/05/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Stafford Road Club Penkridge, (hilly)(Sign on at Start on opposite Leisure centre )
Tue 12/05/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Penkridge, Come and Try It
Tue 19/05/2015 19:00 12.00 Miles Club K17/10Km Lichfield City Cycling Club 2 x Laps of course. Start at junction of Shaws Lane and King Bromley Lane.
Tue 19/05/2015 19:00 20.00 Kilometres Club K17/10Km Brereton Wheelers 2 Laps Sign-on at start
Wed 20/05/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Stafford Road Club Penkridge, (hilly)(Sign on at Start on opposite Leisure centre
Tue 26/05/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K48/10 Brereton Wheelers Sign-on at start
Tue 26/05/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K6/10S Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club Start at Gailey
Tue 02/06/2015 19:30 10.00 Miles Club K17/10y Mercia Lloyds cc Sign on in layby
Tue 02/06/2015 19:00 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Dunston, Come and Try It
Tue 09/06/2015 19:00 40.00 Kilometres Club K17/10Km Brereton Wheelers 4 Laps Sign-on at start
Wed 10/06/2015 19:00 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Stafford Road Club Dunston, (Sign on in layby on A449)
Sat 13/06/2015 10:00 5.00 Miles Club K7/5W Stafford Road Club Great Bridgeford, “come and give it a try” event (Sign on at Villiage Hall )
Tue 16/06/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K17/10L Lichfield City Cycling Club Sporting, Start at Cleat Hill Lay-by southern end by first drain cover.
Tue 16/06/2015 19:00 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Dunston, Come and Try It
Tue 16/06/2015 19:00 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club Start at Dunston
Tue 23/06/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Penkridge, Come and Try It
Tue 23/06/2015 19:30 10.00 Miles Club K17/10y Mercia Lloyds cc Sign on in layby
Tue 23/06/2015 19:00 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club Start at Dunston
Tue 23/06/2015 19:00 30.00 Miles Club K17/10H Brereton Wheelers 3 – laps Sign on at start
Sun 28/06/2015 09:00 5.00 Miles Club K17/5F Brereton Wheelers “Give it a go” timetrial Sign-on at start
Tue 30/06/2015 19:00 12.00 Miles Club K17/10Km Lichfield City Cycling Club 2 x Laps of course. Start at junction of Shaws Lane and King Bromley Lane.
Wed 01/07/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Stafford Road Club Penkridge, (hilly)(Sign on at Start on opposite Leisure centre )
Tue 07/07/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Penkridge, Come and Try It
Tue 14/07/2015 19:30 10.00 Miles Club K17/10y Mercia Lloyds cc Sign on in layby
Tue 14/07/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K6/10S Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club Start at Gailey
Tue 14/07/2015 19:00 25.00 Miles Club K17/25 Lichfield City Cycling Club Hilly, Start at Cleat Hill Lay-by southern end by first drain cover. Finish close to Roundabouts garage just past Park Lane junction with A515 (Tewnals Lane) heading towards Lichfield
Wed 15/07/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Stafford Road Club Penkridge, (hilly)(Sign on at Start on opposite Leisure centre )
Tue 21/07/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Penkridge, Come and Try It
Tue 21/07/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K6/10S Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club Start at Gailey
Tue 28/07/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K6/10S Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club Start at Gailey
Tue 28/07/2015 19:00 12.00 Miles Club K17/10Km Lichfield City Cycling Club 2 x Laps of course. Start at junction of Shaws Lane and King Bromley Lane.
Tue 28/07/2015 19:00 20.00 Kilometres Club K17/10Km Brereton Wheelers 2 Laps Sign-on at start
Wed 29/07/2015 19:00 9.20 Miles Club K7/9 Stafford Road Club Penkridge, (hilly)(Sign on at Start on opposite Leisure centre )
Tue 04/08/2015 18:45 21.00 Miles Club K7/21 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Castle Bank, Come and Try It
Tue 11/08/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K48/10 Brereton Wheelers Sign-on at start
Tue 11/08/2015 19:00 10.00 Miles Club K17/10L Lichfield City Cycling Club Sporting, Start at Cleat Hill Lay-by southern end by first drain cover.
Wed 12/08/2015 19:00 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Stafford Road Club Pottal Pool (Sign on at Start on A34 )
Tue 18/08/2015 19:00 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Pottal Pool, Come & Try It
Sun 23/08/2015 08:00 50.00 Miles Club K7/50 Stafford Road Club Dunston, (Sign on in layby on A449)
Tue 25/08/2015 19:00 5.00 Miles Club K17/5F Brereton Wheelers Sign-on at start
Tue 25/08/2015 18:45 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Pottal Pool, Come & Try It
Tue 25/08/2015 19:00 5.00 Miles Club K17/5n Mercia Lloyds cc Sign on in club room
Tue 25/08/2015 18:45 5.00 Miles Club K17/5W Lichfield City Cycling Club Hilly, Start on the Old A5. At the end of Flats Lane turn Right in 100m on your Right will be the start.
Tue 01/09/2015 18:30 5.00 Miles Club K17/5F Lichfield City Cycling Club Flat, Start just past milestone on your left heading towards Alrewas
Sun 06/09/2015 08:00 50.00 Miles Club K7/50 Stafford Road Club Dunston, (Sign on in layby on A449)
Sun 13/09/2015 10:00 10.00 Miles Club K49/10 Brereton Wheelers Hilly 10. Signing-on in layby at start
Sun 20/09/2015 08:30 25.00 Miles Club K7/25 Stafford Road Club Dunston, (Sign on in layby on A449)
Sun 27/09/2015 09:30 1.00 Miles Club KH24 Stafford Road Club Hill Climb – Layby at top of Weston Bank
Sun 04/10/2015 10:00 1.00 Miles Club Kh21 Brereton Wheelers Hill Climb – Stile Cop Sign on at start
Sun 11/10/2015 09:30 1.00 Miles Club KH41 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Hill Climb – Birches Valley – Come & Try It
Sun 18/10/2015 09:00 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Walsall Roads Cycling Club Pottal Pool, Come & Try It
Fri 01/01/2016 11:00 5.00 Miles Club K7/5 Stafford Road Club Pottal Pool(Sign on at Start on A34 )