Ride Routes 31st August – 6th September

You will see from the cover that we had a great result at the Cyclocross Nationals several weeks back. Congratulations to Anna Schwartz for her Bronze medal 💚💪🏻!!

You can check out all the results and the WACX write-up for 2024 AusCycling WA State Cyclocross Championship held in Ballarat several weekends back (podium photos below).

Some solid SPR green in the results:

  • Anna Schwartz – 3rd place, Womens M4
  • Oscar Barratt – 6th place, Mens u15
  • Tom Barratt – 7th place, Mens M5

Congratulations. And if I missed anyone, please let me know.

🎄🎄 Shouting out to SPR members. The Committee would like your feedback on our Christmas event for 2024. Tell us what you think! Check out the poll on Facebook here. 🎄🎄

See you out on the bike.

Daniel

Racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.

1. PDCC State Champs (Junior/Kermesse/Para)

2. WCMCC Splendid Park – Yanchep – Graded Criterium

3. MCC Pickering Brook Road Race (8/Sep)

Juniors Ride — This Saturday, we won’t have our usual junior training session as we’ll be cheering on our kids at the State Champs! If you’d like to participate in the race, there’s still time to register here: https://entryboss.cc/races/21374.

If racing isn’t your thing, we still encourage you to come out and support all the kids and adults competing. It promises to be a fun and exciting day for everyone!

From the Ride Coordinator — One of the reasons we like to keep the size of Saturday groups to around 15 riders, is to limit the physical length of the group on the road. Longer groups are a greater disruption to traffic, and more susceptible to being split at lights.

One way to help maintain a compact group is to delay accelerating when coming out of corners. A good rule of thumb is to count up to the number of riders behind you, before picking up your pace. So if there are 10 riders behind you, count to 10 after the corner before picking up speed.

Try it this week, and enjoy the rides.

Please note, the development group currently runs 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month.

IMPORTANT: We have changed the start time of our Sunday Hills rides back to our winter time of 7am. Take note 🥶

Saturday 31st August

Sunday 1st September

Monday 2nd September

Tuesday 3rd September

Wednesday 4th September

Thursday 5th September

Friday 6th September