Hemel Hempstead Cycling Club

79th ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER & DANCE
Saturday 28th January 2012

Shendish Manor Hotel
7.30pm – Midnight
3 Course Buffet Meal
£35.00 per person

Everyone is welcome, family & friends
Dress to impress

Cheques made payable to: J Goffin

Send names & payment to: Carol Macdonald, 46 Bencroft Road,
Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 5UY

On 10 March 2012 our annual open road races, the Roy Thame Cup & Spring Chicken Road Races will once again be held on a rolling circuit in the Claydons in Buckinghamshire. With luck this 24th edition of the popular early season event (& for many years the previous incarnation the Circuit of Cublington making it 35 years) will be blessed with fair Spring weather as has been the case on so many previous occasions.

The club's annual open 10 mile time trial takes place on the Leighton Buzzard bypass course (code F12/10) on Saturday 6 August 2011.

Stop Press: Full results here:

http://www.hemelcycling.org.uk/news/spring-chicken-rr-roy-thame-cup-full...

The Workshop, held on Monday 27th September at 20.00 comprises a brief overview of Sports Psychology, an introduction to mental toughness (what it is, how to find it, how to keep it), and a question and answer session at the end.

Full details here

We are once again holding our triathlon championships at the the Bedford Autumn Sprint triathlon.  This excellent event is well run, accessible to beginners and with a slightly long bike favours the bikers amongst us!!  The distances are 400m swim, 24km bike and 5km run.

Entry in advance is required as the event is open to all.

Full event and entry details here: http://www.galeforce-events.com/event5.htm

Keith Fletcher is again organising the cyclo-cross after the success of the previous two years’ events.  With fast open racing for all abilities on the popular Longdean School course.

The annual hillclimb takes place on Ivinghoe Beacon, taking in a course of approx one and a half miles, starting from the bus stop lay-by opposite the Ivinghoe Aston road junction and going all the way to finish at the National Trust sign just before the top cattle grid.

First rider off at 10 am.

Club run normally starts out from Hemel railway station at 9 am to get to the start in time for anyone doing the run can participate in the event (or if you wimp out of that you can at least go up the hill to cheer on the ones that do!).

The club's annual open 10 mile time trial takes place on the Leighton Buzzard bypass course (code F12/10).

Entries for the event must be made on the Cycling Time Trials standard entry form - downloadable from the CTT website here: http://www.rttc.org.uk/AboutCTT/RiderInfo/FormsGuidanceNotes/tabid/77/De... (lots of forms there - seniors only need the front only page, juniors etc. need the full double page version). Under 18's need a parental consent completed (on the 2nd page of the full form).

The clubs open time trials promotions kick off with it's annual 25 mile time trial on the course code F13/25 - a course based on the A41 north of Aylesbury, starting and finishing a few miles south of Bicester. The race HQ is in Launton Village Hall, Launton (a village just south east of Bicester), and about 2 miles from the start. There are events for tandems and solo riders.

Entries for the event must be made on the Cycling Time Trials standard entry form - downloadable from the CTT website here: