| Welcome to the South Western Road Club. We are a friendly cycling club based in South West London with a membership of over 100 cyclists. The active heart of the club is our Saturday club ride with a rotating three monthly list of the planned destinations, which take in the roads and lanes of Surrey, Sussex and Kent. There are also midweek rides and in the summer months an evening ride (chain gang) prior to our weekly Tuesday club night held in the Chessington area. You are welcome to try us out on a club ride or a visit to our club night. Use this site to find out more about us and some of the things that we do in the Club. The SWRC Blog can be found here ..... The Saturday Club Runs list updated to end September 2008 here....... |
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SWRC 'FOLLICY CHALLENGED' VETS ROAD RACES These road races on Saturday 5 July 2008 and are run under LVRC rules. Advance entry is £6 and £12 for entry on the line. All cheques payable to SWRC. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.lvrc.org. Cash prizes plus donations from our sponsor Evans Cycles. Race Times 10am Cat. D (aged 55+) - 40 miles 10.05 Cat E,F,G (aged 60+) - 40 miles 1.15pm Cat. A,B & C (aged 40-54) - 60 Miles All races accompanied by experience motor cycle marshalls from. Event H/Q - Loxwood Villade Hall, Loxwood, Guildford RH14 0XS All races on Kirdford Circuit. Event organiser - Geoff Redhead, 11 Hillier Road, London SW11 6AX Mob. 07836 357535 CLUB RECORD IN FAST 50 TT Jonathon Thomas and I rode the API '50' on Saturday afternoon on the E2/50 course up on the A11/A14 near Newmarket, the same course I did a P.B. 10 mile not three weeks before. Again it was a super fast event in near perfect windless conditions and we came away satisfied with two P.B's and a new club record for me. Jon was a rider transformed from the one who could not break 23 minutes in the Inter club a couple of weeks ago and 'back to back' 56 minute '25' rides (the first more like 55 minutes) shows that he is returning to the form of before his knee operation. Any sporting performance requires a great deal of self belief and crucially confidence, cycling is an individual sport and time trialling doubly so, no team to carry you along or mask a bad performance, no bunch to hide in only you and the elements and the open road stretching out ahead. Illness and injury are the achilles heel of belief and since coming back from his convalescence even with all his experience I felt Jon has just lacked that little with his confidence You do all the exercises after the injury in the belief that you can come back as strong, you commit time and effort to getting up to fitness but still it does not seem to be working. Your belief in yourself is severely tested and you can begin to wane and you tell yourself its the best you can do.
Jonathon has shown great determination and fortitude to come back from his injury and this is his reward, a personal best and a vindication of all those hours and months of training, Jon has won his battle and I think we can look forward to some exceptional rides from him in the rest of the season. Well done Jonathon SWRC May Flyer Cyclosportive – Sunday 11th May, 2008 Thanks to all the riders who entered and finished our event, which was being run for the 10th consectutive year. The weather was great but may be a little to hot for some but generally most riders welcome the sun on their backs. The new finish at Downside Village Hall also prove popular as it was less than a mile ride back to the car park after some tea and cake in the hall. The finishers’ times are listed here... Riders categories and award times are here..... If a query appears beside your name and you want to know your award please send us an email via the link at the top of this page to the Club Secretary. Please put "Query May Flyer" in the subject heading. The queries relate mainly to not being able to work out the rider category because either just initials have been put on the entry form or you have omitted to give your age. Gold, silver and bronze awards were determined by a combination of age categories and time taken. The award certificates will be posted to you. Interesting facts from the event were :- 87 riders completed the short course (13 women) 163 riders completed the long course (24 women) 36 pre-entered riders did not start 28 riders did not finish The youngest rider was 13 The oldest rider was 70.
Saturday Club Rides - New C group
We now run “C Group” Saturday rides in order to provide an opportunity for club members and new riders to join a ride at a more modest pace and distance than generally undertaken by the A and B Groups. Start is at 0930 at Cobham car park, as for the other groups, allowing people to choose their ride on the day. However, note that the C Group always starts from Cobham and does not change to a Betchworth start on the first Saturday of each month. Distance will generally be 30-40 miles at a pace that keeps everyone together and avoids the steeper hills. A tea stop is also scheduled for each ride to keep energy levels up! The club runs list shows the destination, so all you have to do is turn up at the start. We want members to spread the word once they have tried the ride and it will become the ride of choice for those looking for a more relaxed outing. Come and give it a try! .
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SWRC MEMBER TO REPRESENT GB AT WORLD CHAMPS Club member Ann Marshall has successfully qualified to represent Great Britian at the 2008 ITU Duathlon World Championships to be held in Rimini on the 27 & 28 September. The qualifying event was held on the 4th April near Swindon on a cold exposed windy and sloping airfield. Ann’s achievement is even more noteworthy as this was her first duathlon event. The event consists of a 10k run / 40k bike ride / 5k run. She did not of course just turn up and take part but put in some heavy training in Ann in her new GB kit. Ann writes ….. I wasn't nervous because I was too busy being concerned about what to wear – I get so hot running and so cold on bike – consequently my transitions were disastrous as I fumbled with gloves, gillet etc, but fortunately I managed to come 4th in my age group (old bird category) and claimed a place in Rimini! Hopefully the Adriatic weather will be kind at the end of September and I've checked out the course – it's up and down the promenade so no hills there... things are looking up! SWRC GETS STAR BILLING IN CYCLING WEEKLY The SWRC's May Flyer Cyclo-sportive event has receive an excellent four page spread in Cycling Weekly dated 29 May 2008. The writer Ian Munnery, a member of Addiscombe CC, writes in fulsome praise of the route and our organisation of the event. The fact that Ian received no special treatment from us, he just entered and rode the event reflects well on all the club members who gave up their time to help with the event. With his encouraging words next year's event should sell out fast. NEW CLUB KIT GETS ITS FIRST COMPETITION OUTING After a mixed bag of old and new in the Interclub on Saturday the new club colours got a proper outing in the De Laune LVRC Road Races on Sunday, the SWRC had riders in the 40 & 60 age races around the (9 mile) Bletch Brother Alan had a tough In the 60-69 we had two representatives Andy Hicks & Roger Jackaman and who were in the action all race long but missed the two man break that snuck away on the secon Colin Parkinson
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We are all looking for that elusive quality of form that will transform our riding from the mere ordinary to 'super' form, experience plays it's part in keeping our expectations grounded and we are constantly looking for that one thing which will move us up that extra level. A new pair of shoes, a slight change of position or diet, there does not seem to be one factor that works for everybody, it is a constant search but it's a relief when it 'clicks' and great when all the elements that you have worked on for so long come together
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ingly circuit near Godstone. I rode out to ease the legs (& shame) of going wrong in the previous days event (after telling all and sundry to make sure they went around the right roundabout!). These races are part of the season long South East Green Jersey series so there was full fields and competitive racing in all the events and the LVRC tend to be quite combative as they are populated with (Ex) pros and top roadmen who like to race hard and know how to exploit weak legs
ride in the 5 lap 40-49 race with Colin Roshier (Team Quest) running out the winner over Matt Seaton (Rapher/Condor) in a break from half distance and Andrew Meilak (ODLS Racing) just pipping Alan for the uphill bunch sprint after Alan led out, his usual speed must have been blunted in the hills of the Lake District last weekend!
d lap of the 36 mile race. The Bletchingly circuit is a tough course with a steep climb up to the finish and then a mile long drag up through Godstone and as this was Andy & Rogers first race of the season they did well to be competitive and come away with 5th and 6th place respectively, the last time I saw them they were off the front with half a lap to go but they did not have enough conditioning to stay away and the bunch brought them back so they both did well to get up in the sprint. Their race was won by Dave Bonner an ex Old Ports '25' mile TT Champ from 1963.
South Western Road Club hold a programme of time trialling events (racing against the clock) throughout the season from March to September. The programme includes a series of evening events open to club members , including a hill climb and a series of inter-club events held jointly with Epsom CC. ...