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

• 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 (next week)
  • Transitional 1/2 – Trans Reverse River 40.58km SPR Saturday
  • Fast, Main – Scarborough Beach & Hale 51.21km SPR Saturday

Sunday 1st September

• Rides start at Coode St carpark at 7:00am (WINTER TIME)
  • Short – Welsh Falls Repat MWR 74.76km SPR Sunday
  • Long – Wlsh Obs Chook MWR Goose 91.08km SPR Sunday
• Rides start at Coode st carpark at 7:00am (WINTER TIME)
  • Development group – coffee ride
  • Short Hills (Social) – Welsh Falls Repat MWR 74.76km SPR Sunday

Monday 2nd September

• Ride starts under the Narrows (Sth Perth side) at 5:30am
  • south stock 33.76km spr Monday

Tuesday 3rd September

• Ride starts under the Narrows (city side) at 5:30am
  • spr tuesday 36.37km (river ride)

Wednesday 4th September

• Ride starts under the Narrows (Sth Perth side) at 5:30am
  • SPR Wednesday 35.3km (2023 Edition)
• Ride starts Raffles bike pathat 5:30am
  • Interval training – stock road repeats
• Rides start at Coode St carpark at 10:00am
  • Midweek Transitional – Trans Shelley Midweek SPR 29.58km

Thursday 5th September

• Ride starts under the Narrows (city side) at 5:30am
  • see previous post for ride groups
  • spr thursday 37.26km (cott & freo)

Friday 6th September

• Ride starts under the Narrows (Sth Perth side) at 5:30am
  • SPR Friday Alternate 38.43km (Shelley)