Club Annual Dinner
9th March, Dulwich Woodhouse. More details to follow.
Regular Winter Activities:
Racing:
Winter is traditionally a training period for cyclists. However, VCL has an increasingly large number of riders racing cyclo cross throughout winter, some just for fun, some quite seriously. We mainly race in the London Cyclo Cross League across the South East of England and our home venue, Herne Hill Velodrome’s other ‘cross events
Our members mainly leave road racing to the warmer months, but do occasinoaly dabble in local circuit racing leagues at Hillingdon and Hog Hill throughout winter.
We also tend to save our track racing for spring, summer and autumn, but we have been known to drop in on the Newport and Calshot track leagues. Last year a good number of our riders raced in, and got some great results in the youth only Newport Icebreaker series. Dates here
Training:
Youth Turbo Training runs every Monday and Friday from 6.30-8pm with Phil, Tristan or Jason. Cost is £2 now moved to Herne Hill Methodist Church on Half Moon Lane, SE24 9JG.
Mid Week Riders.
Some of us are also starting to meet for night mountainbike rides, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday either meeting in Croydon at around 7pm or driving out to Dorking. You’ll need to be competent off-road, and have lights bright enough to illuminate pitch black woodland! Ask any questions on the forum.
A few of us with strange or non-existent work schedules meet for midweek day time rides. Post a message in the random rides thread on the forum to see who’s about.
Saturday track training at Herne Hill Velodrome will start up late Feburary/early March.
Sundays: Club Run. Weekly winter club road ride leaving at 9.30. We split into groups based on speed depending on who turns up. We usually have a good number of differently paced groups. If the weather is really bad we may go mountainbiking instead – check the forum for any last minute changes. We meet on the corner of Birch Tree Ave and Layhams Road – BR49EQ. This gives younger people the option to be driven out past the heavy suburban traffic. Smaller groups do meet in Herne Hill/Dulwich just before 9am to ride out the the meeting point.
