Author: Anthony Rogers

Outer Ring – our final session of the 2017 season is a 10 mile TT

Bring your rollers/turbos to help warm up for our last booked session of this season. Though we hope some of you will continue riding Saturday mornings and follow our to be published programme on our website. We will send youngest riders off on their 10 mile TTs first and work our way through our riders…
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We really need some helpers for next Sunday’s cross race

Hi PPYCC supporters, If you can help and we don’t have your name on our list below please let Anthony know your availability for next Sunday. We have roles from 07.30 to 17.00 with our greatest need being setting up which finishes by 11.00. The message below has already been sent to  some volunteers. Your…
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Hill Climb Racing News: a win for Lloyd Costello

Three  PPYCC riders competed in the Butts Lane Hill Climb event at Willingdon last Saturday. There was a field of forty riders with a mix of juvenile, juniors, adults, seniors and veterans.  All three PPYCC riders had a good ride putting in a lot of effort and hard work to reach the summit in a…
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No Outer Ring at Preston Park this Saturday 21st October

Apologies for any disappointment but the coaches will be at Lee Valley velodrome with some of our riders.

Outer ring Saturday 14th October

Saturday is the penultimate session for the Outer Ring at Preston Park with 21st October seeing riders visit Lee Valley Velodrome, (see details in post earlier this week). We will continue from last week’s session by continuing to look at winter training and interval sessions. We will run a pyramid session in what may well…
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Outer Ring on 21st October [limited availability to ride at Lee Valley Velodrome]

On Saturday 21st of October, 08.00 – 10.00, we have secured a track session at Lee Valley Velodrome alongside Brighton Tri, running two separate groups – youth and adult. There will be no Outer Ring session at Preston Park that day but there are 12 places available to join us at the velodrome. You do…
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Le Ride, a film about following the route of the 1928 Tour de France!

Anyone else interested in supporting and seeing this film? It could be a PPYCC winter evening social event. We are unclear of the certification but assume a film about cycling around France will not be something that will cause upset. If interested just pledge on the website for the film Le Ride. LE RIDE PROMOTED…
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One for parents

Did you know 02-08 October 2017 is Parents in Sport Week? The Child Protection in Sport Unit, (CPSU)  a branch of the NSPPCC, holds information on the importance of parents [not that you needed telling] and their needs; read more here:  https://thecpsu.org.uk/help-advice/topics/parents-in-sport/ With the recent events we have organised we would like to thank all…
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Hill Climb TT on the iconic Ditchling Beacon

We would like to encourage our racing members to enter the Sussex Nomads Time Trial Hill Climb at Ditchling Beacon on Sunday 29th October. Unusually we are encouraging members to take part even though our second Cycle-cross event is on the same day. The early start of the Hill Climb gives riders a chance to…
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Cross-race report

If you look at our Face Book page you will see much more about yesterday’s cross race, however there was much excitement, less bad weather than expected and some success for our riders in a discipline where we are not so commonly on the podium. With over 30 volunteers we showed an impressive club and…
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