The last Sunday in October for a few years now has seen both the PPYCC hill climb and the Sussex Nomads Ditchling Beacon Hill Climb organised by Preston Park cycling volunteer Alex Beyfus. Some members and other cyclists chose to race in both. If you want to take part in the iconic hill climb you…
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With the Club Champs just passed, and the end of October in sight, we can see our season end approaching. For racing cyclists, riding normally resumes after a short break but for volunteers there may be some down time in sight. Club sessions end with the month of October to be followed by our AGM…
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Tomorrow we’ll be running the final distance challenge of the season. Inner Ring riders will complete their distance challenge by age group after a warm up. It could be quite cool first thing so please bring long sleeves/legs to warm up in. Outer Ring riders will complete the 10 mile TT after their warm up.…
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A reminder to all riders that tomorrow is club championships! As such, there will be no Inner or Outer ring sessions, however, there is racing for every age group, starting from 11am, with sign on from 10.30. Please see the earlier post below for exact timings for each age category. We look forward to seeing…
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Important club dates for your calendar PPYCC Club Championships 28th September 2019: This is the opportunity for all club members to showcase their racing skills learnt over the season, and a chance to win the title of Club Champion in each age group! Every member is welcome to join in, racing starts at 11.00am this…
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Many of you will remember that club member Tom Pughe-Morgan completed an Everest Ascent of Ditchling Beacon, accompanied by Lukas Nerurkar, in 2017 at the age of 14 years; 65 continuous ascents on a single day. This seemed a most extraordinary and astounding achievement for anyone, and even more so for someone so young. Well…
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With a good weather forecast tomorrow we will try and fit in lots of active riding to prepare for the Club Circuit Champs in a couple of weeks; bring your largest lungs for your greatest efforts.
Club championships are coming up on the 28th September at Preston Park. We hope that all riders will enter under their age category and have a chance to stand on the podium and win medals and trophies! As the racing is being run under British Cycling regulations, riders will need to use the British Cycling…
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After the performances last weekend we have updated the 10 mile challenge times for those that took part. There were some great times and pretty much everyone recorded an improvement on the previous logged time. Well done those that took part.
On Saturday 28th September the PPYCC Circuit Club Championships will be held at Preston Park. We’ve moved venue this year from Cyclopark to our home track to hopefully make the club champs more accessible. The inner ring will run as normal on Saturday 28th and we hope many of our riders will stay on and…
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