Author: Anthony Rogers

Race report of Round 8 of the London Cyclo-Cross League – podium places for PPYCC riders

See the full report in web context here, or read it below. See the results and an animation of each riders progress in the main Youth race here. [Other races are all viewable]. Congratulations to Adam Churchill, Lukas Nerurkar and Luke Goodwill for their podium places.   18.8 Kinesis UK LDN and SE Cyclocross Rd.8 East…
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Shimano RO88 road shoes for sale

For Sale, A pair of size 44 white, Shimano RO88 road shoes. Worn once and didn’t fit. These road shoes originally cost £79.99 at full price, these have been worn once but did not fit. They take Shimano SPD SL or Look Keo road cleats to fit those road pedals. They accept a large range…
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Interval Training starts this Sunday 25th November

Members have been asked to arrange Interval Training sessions on the weekends whilst there are no formal coaching activities and two of our senior members, Francis Schofield and James Gilmore, have offered to take a lead in this. They plan to turn up on Sundays at 10.00 to the track and to take part in…
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Post-cross clean up in Preston Park, Sunday 18th November at 3pm

We need to remove our course markings from the trees in the woodland near the cycle track at Preston Park. From 3pm to 4pm today we are asking members to turn up and gently scrub away the chalk paint markings from 10 trees. We have scrubbing brushes and rubber gloves for you to use, a…
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PPYCC members at today’s National Trophy race and a video of our own race

Thanks to promoting club Crawley Wheelers we have a round of the National Trophy Cyclo-cross series taking place at Ardingly today and yesterday. The National Trophy is a season long series which produces National Winners. Racing today for PPYCC are: Juniors Adam Churchill and Joseph Martin Under 16s Josh Ballinger and Freddie Newman Under 14…
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Final instalment – Francis and James do hill climbs

Here is the final instalment of Francis Schofield’s race reports covering the autumn hill climbs, many thanks must go to Francis for both competing and writing these informative, colourful and engaging reports.   The final Hill Climb of the season- Ditchling Beacon. For James and I, the final Hill Climb of the season that we…
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Cycle-cross review and thanks

We have come to the end of our summer season at Preston Park YCC and we finished with Halloween shenanigans and the first ever cyclo-cross race at Preston Park. Thanks must go to the many volunteers who helped on the day of our cross race. More than 50 people made a contribution to the day’s…
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Hill climb season near’s its conclusion: Francis and James do Hill Climbs

With the ‘peak’ and final event for local riders coming this weekend, the Ditchling Beacon Hill Climb, we present the 3rd instalment of ‘Francis and James do Hill Climbs’ Week 3 of 4 For our next weekend of hill climbs, James and I rode the ESCA Firle Bostal and Velopace Butts Lane hill climbs on…
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Saturday winter morning intervals programme

The details of today’s, and future, interval sessions can be read below and are also found on our Winter Activities page To keep those that wish to stay on top of their fitness during the winter in training miles we have our first interval session tomorrow. The track is not booked, there are no session…
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Outer Ring Saturday 20th October – intervals

With the summer season closing next week we focus on interval training in tomorrow’s session. What is interval training? Well interval training is a way of structuring your riding so that you get maximum reward from your effort in the minimum time. “Sounds great!” However we could also describe this as digging deep and working…
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