Entries close tonight midnight for Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race.
There are nearly 200 entrants in this Sunday’s race, with over 30 SPR members across all women’s and men’s grades. We will have SPR van and tents out, so do come down to watch what should be an excellent morning of racing.
All the details below.
The Rotary Tour of Blackwood is fast approaching – Saturday 12 March. Now in it’s 5th year it has quickly established itself as a challenging tour of one of our most spectacular regions of WA – the Blackwood River Valley.
The region was sadly affected by recent bushfires however the Event organisers confirmed last week, despite this and COVID-19 concerns pertaining to Events, it is on. We have more than 25 SPR riders registered and there’s still time to enter this Charity ride (3 courses to choose) supporting youth mental health by providing funding to Blackwood Youth Action Inc for at risk youth counselling in the region.
Entries close Wednesday 9 March so don’t snooze, see https://www.blackwoodtour.info.
For SPR specific queries please email race@southperthrouleurs.com.au.
Kit shop open – The Mayeur shop is taking orders for SPR kit. This order closes 1 March so get on it!
Go to the shop here.
Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race – This event is RCCC’s biggest event of the year. And rightly so. It aims to celebrate the lives of Henk Vogels Snr and Renae Baker, one a man who dedicated much of his life to the promotion and love of cycling, the other a young lady taken way too soon by an insidious disease.
For those not familiar, I encourage you to read the history of the race here.
Enter online here, and follow updates on Facebook.
Many will be aware that there have been a number of coaching sessions offered for our female riders at RCCC and 4Five+ races over the summer. Men, now it is your turn. RCCC and GB Coaching are pleased to offer a skills session for C and D grade male athletes as part of the Henk Vogels Snr Memorial / Renae’s Race program.
Get tips on bike handling and cornering from two time Olympic Gold Medallist and ex-professional cyclist Graeme Brown. Enter here and follow on Facebook.
Criterium racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.
1. RCCC Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race
From the Ride Coordinator – So a couple of changes to signal this week regarding some of our ride choices. I’ll start with “the dirty stuff”!
This weekend (ie this Sunday the 27th February) sees the return of the monthly SPR gravel ride on the Heritage trail and optional Chidlow extension. We are reinitiating this ride after our summer hiatus to coincide with those that might be training for the SeVen event in May. This ride will be lead by one of our dedicated volunteer ride leaders and departs from the carpark opposite the Darlington post office at 7.30 on Sunday. Just a cautionary note, as it hasn’t rained up there in a while please make sure you choose you most “gnarly” of tyre choices because at this time of year it can be a little slippy. Probably perfect training for the SeVen event.
The second thing we would like to signal is the “unwinding” of the summer start times for our Sunday rides throughout March. So the regular riders of our Sunday coffee ride and the Sunday Social short hills ride will experience a move back to a 7am start time on the first weekend in March – which makes it Sunday the 6th March (or the long weekend if that is easier to remember). Please note that this is only for the coffee ride and Sunday Social Short Hills groups. We have had requests from members of the regular short hills and long hills groups to keep the start time at 6am for a further few weeks in March so that will remain at 6am. We managed these requests OK going into Summer where we had disparate start times for these groups so we should be able to manage coming out as well. But we wanted to signal the change out a few weeks ahead and hope that people are reading down this far and not skipping to the routes by now 😀
I guess we will find that out in a few weeks time.
Saturday 26th February
- Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
- Early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special
- Hills ride starts at Coode st carpark at 6:30am
- Short Hills – <not this week>
- All rides start at Coode St carpark at 7:00am
- Development group – novice shelley 36.06km spr saturday
- Transitional 1/2 – trans nth lake & shelley 40.50km spr saturday
- Fast, Main – stock & shelley 49.56km spr saturday
Sunday 27th February
- Rides start at Coode St carpark at 6:00am
- Short – les obs 67.37km spr sunday
- Long – chook obs goose 94.01km spr sunday
- Rides start at Coode st carpark at 6:00am
- Development group – coffee ride
- Short Hills (Social) – les obs 67.37km spr sunday
- Ride start at car park opposite the Darlington Post Office at 7:30am
- Gravel – Heritage and Chidlow spr gravel
Monday 28th February
- Ride starts under the Narrows (Sth Perth side) at 5:30am
Tuesday 1st March
- Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
- Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
- Development group – interval training kings park
Wednesday 2nd March
- Ride starts Raffles bike path at 5:30am
- Interval training – stock road repeats
Thursday 3rd March
- Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
- Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
- Development group – interval training kings park
Friday 4th March
- Ride starts under the Narrows (Sth Perth side) at 5:30am