Note from the JDO
This Sunday will see the last of our Winter RaceSkills program and what a great winter season with our experienced riders doing Opens and putting in stellar performances and a number of our new riders doing their first Country Tittles. The winter has also seen us enjoy RaceSkills up at North Wyong for the first time, which was a great success. The last few weeks has shown riders really starting to gain their fitness and race capability. Central Division Championship was only a couple of weeks ago now and CCCC made a fantastic showing in all the division with some results I am sure will drive some riders to new levels.
I would like to thank all the parents for their help and support, whether it be standing on a corner or working a stop watch, it all make for smoothing running for the kids.
As we move into the warmer months our focus changes to Track racing at Adcock Park. This truly looks to be an exciting season with a number of our riders now starting their second season on the track. The season will start Wed 8th October see further down for details. To add some excitement to summer the juniors will also have their own criterium racing this year see details below.
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CycleSkills
We will once again have a CycleSkills program this Spring over six weeks commencing Sunday 19th October at the CARES facility, Ourimbah. This is aimed at new riders to teach them the basic before moving to RaceSkills. So if you know anybody who might be interested please tell they are well come.
RaceSkills
Summer brings us Track and Crits. It has been a few years since CCCC has had junior criterium racing so I hope you get behind it and enjoy the racing.
Track Racing
Track Season see us return to Adcock Park on Wedensday night with the track open to juniors from 5pm. We will follow a similar format to last year:
5.00 pm Track open for warm and training
5.30 pm official start of track and Sign on
5.45 pm 1 Lap Time Trial
6.00 pm Clear the track for Senior warm up ( Juniors stretching)
6.30 pm Juniors commencing racing
There will be three races each for the riders with an assortment of event to be ridden. Race entry will be $4.00 for juniors.
Track Open and Country track titles
This year our traditional track open will be run over two days. I would like to see as many CCCC juniors racing in this event. I will follow with more details as they come to hand. Racing licenses for next year can be purchased from Oct 1st, this means you get 14 months of racing for the price of twelve great offer.
CCCC Track Open – 15th November
NSW Country Tittles – 16th November
More details to follow
Criterium Racing
This year our club will be running some Sunday morning racing as well as the traditional Friday nights at the North Wyong circuit. Those juniors in U13 or higher are welcome to take part in these events. These races are graded on ability and range from A - E there will be something for all.
That does not mean our U9’s and U 11’s miss out either. As part of the new Sunday racing, we will be holding Junior Crits around our traditional circuit and these will be graded. Support is needed by riders for these events to be run as they will be driven by numbers. Juniors will start racing at 8 am on the dot as the seniors start at 8.30 on the big circuit. If you have friend in other clubs, they are welcome also.
See below for dates and details.
Sign on will be from 7.45 am, Racing will commence at 8.am sharp.
Entry Fee will be $4.00 per rider.
Dates: for U9 and U 11 only
Day/Date. Race/time
Sunday October 19 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps.
Sunday November 2 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps. Sprint primes
Saturday/ Sunday November 15/16 CCCC track open and
Sunday November 30 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps. Sprint primes
Sunday December 14 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps.
Sunday December 28 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps. Sprint primes
Sunday January 11 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps.
Sunday January 25 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps. Sprint primes
Sunday February 8 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps.
Sunday February 22 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps. Sprint primes
Sunday March 8 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps.
Sunday March 22 8am .15minutes plus 3 laps. Sprint primes
Opens
This year our aim is to get more of our riders racing at Opens. I have attached a link to the Cycling NSW website where you can see the Open details. The official calendar is not out yet so keep your eyes open.
Cycling NSW
Opens need to be entered two weeks before the event and can be done online. If you are not sure about racing opens, come and ask me.
Club Bikes
As our numbers grow, we are sometimes challenged with the number of bikes we have. To allow us to have new riders join our sport we need to give them a helping hand, how many of you realised how much quicker a road or track bike was once you climbed on. Now you wouldn’t look at those mountain or BMX except for fun.
To help these new riders we have decided to put a two season limit on the hire of club bikes. How does this work, well if you it is easy if you start in a track season you can also hire a club bike for the road season. The expectation then is that for the next track season you would have your own bike, allowing somebody new to use the club bike. The some works in reverse if you start in the road season.
As a quick note if you are looking at buying right now have a chat to us as we have some store giving us some great deals at the moment. In addition, a road bike might be the go as you can use it for Sundays and road season.
With bike hire over the summer season the as we will be moving between events if you are intending to race both venue you will need to take the bikes home with you. Also you will need to be prepared to change bike configuration from track to road and back. This is not hard and takes about 15 minutes.
Memberships
One of the joys of taking out your full racing license is that you get 14 months for the price of 12. So join for the whole year with a racing license and start racing our opens.
