From the office of the Vice President
With El Prez enjoying a well-earned break in Italy (and getting some good SPR exposure on International television) it falls to me to provide the spiel this week. The main aim is not to get any politicians offside.
It has been a busy week, with my wife away and me tending to 3 teenagers at home. The struggle has been to fit in training in between work, lifts to and from school, sports and jobs, together with doing the cooking cleaning and other jobs said teenagers were meant to do.
However, organising the children and coping with it will no doubt put me in good staid for Saturday morning, when once again the task of organising the Main 1 groups will befall me. With the fine weather still here, I’m expecting a big turnout and so there will be the need to split groups. Ideally, in the interest of safety, the groups should be kept to a maximum of 25.
Please be warned I will come down on anyone who tries and sneaks across the divisions. Get organised beforehand with the people you want to ride with.
The route this week is an old favourite with enough lumps to keep everyone happy.
On the racing front, good luck to those heading up to Kalgoorlie this weekend and well done to all those who participated in the Pickering Brook Race last week, especially the ones who climbed the podium in the various grades.
Dr J
ride leaders – I’ll be taking out either the trannies or Main 4 this week and am looking for others to assist in other groups. sign up here.
ride leaders sponsorship – May’s Ride Leaders are proudly sponsored by Forever Living Products. please see the previous post detailing what they provide and we thank them for encouraging our members to step up as ride leaders. ride leaders will receive a $10 Dome voucher to be used after the saturday ride. if you have a business that you want to promote to our members, check out the previous post to both promote your business and help out the club.
friday development ride – this ride has been put together to help develop anyone that wants to participate in the swan valley cyclo-sportif later in the year. not aimed at those that are already racing, this is to help get people used to the type of riding required for a cyclo. see the previous post for more details.
rules of engagement – please read the previous post if you come out on any of our rides. it is up to all members to enforce these rules.
ride routes –
saturday 30th may
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special
all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
development group – novice shelley 36.06km spr saturday
transitional – Trans Reverse River 40.58KM SPR Saturday
fast & main groups – Cresswell & Herdsman 48.86Km SPR Saturday
sunday 31st may
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special
all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
short – brktn weir 82.89km spr sunday
long – carr peet obs 97.72km spr sunday
monday 1st june – wa day
ride starts under the narrows (sth perth side) at 5:30am
main group – south stock 33.76km spr monday
rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am
fast & main groups – public hol 58.97km spr special
tuesday 2nd june
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
spr tuesday 36.37km (river ride)
ride starts frasers carpark at 5:45am
development group – interval training kings park
wednesday 3rd june
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
spr wednesday 14.22km (uci masters)
ride starts raffles bike path at 5:30am
development group – stock road repeats
thursday 4th june
ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30arm
spr thursday 37.26km (cott & freo)
ride starts frasers carpark at 5:45am
development group – interval training kings park
friday 5th june
ride starts under the narrows (sth perth side) at 5:30am
Hang on… I thought you were a teenager Dr J :p
See you tomorrow at the EBR? Can you make sure we regroup after Shelly please 😀
Oh joy. Cresswell & Herdsman…. that was the route on my first ever ride with SPR some 3 1/2years ago. Got dropped like a stone when we hit Creswell!! Cameron Brook kindly nursed me home. Such great memories… still, I came back the following week for more… I still got dropped…. from the Trannies! Those were the days.
Although this course has a lot in common with some others, many (including me) wouldn’t have ridden this course, so if anyone wants to ‘send to device’ the Garmin connect link (normally provided at bottom) it is as follows:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/3169595
Legend. Thank you.
Actually that didn’t work for me. I had to use this: https://connect.garmin.com/course/3169595
Oops that is for the Cresswell & Herdsman 48.86Km SPR Saturday course.
Hey All
Just wondering if anyone found out the purpose of the cameraman that was following the Main 2 ride on Monday morning?
I was in the main 2 group as well and the cameraman followed the group from Cottesloe to the city. The story appeared in the channel 9 news on Monday night and they showed the footage from the main 2 ride. The footage was repeated in the late news. The story was about car drivers being made more responsible for accidents with cyclists (or something like that). I was concentrating more on if I could see myself in the footage rather than the story contents.