We have come to the end of our summer season at Preston Park YCC and we finished with Halloween shenanigans and the first ever cyclo-cross race at Preston Park. Thanks must go to the many volunteers who helped on the day of our cross race. More than 50 people made a contribution to the day’s…
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With PPYCC’s AGM coming up on the 17th November, and with it the annual election of PPYCC’s committee, it is timely to think about our volunteer team. We currently have some vacancies within the committee, and welcome parents, or other adults within the club, to join our team. You don’t need any specific skills to…
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Any cake contributions for the refreshment stand at our Preston Park Cross Race this Sunday will be gratefully received (and eaten) as usual!
PPYCC riders have been out racing at a lot of events both local, regional and national this season. We have now added a galleries page on the website and have uploaded galleries for some early season regional races at Palmer Park and Hog Hill, Inner Ring Go-Ride Racing in June and September, Leeds Castle CycloCross…
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This weekend is our final Saturday morning session of the season. We will be doing fun races rather than coached activities and are going to have a Halloween theme! Please come dressed up in your Halloween costumes, but remember that baggy trousers should be tucked into socks and don’t wear flappy stuff like witches and…
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With the ‘peak’ and final event for local riders coming this weekend, the Ditchling Beacon Hill Climb, we present the 3rd instalment of ‘Francis and James do Hill Climbs’ Week 3 of 4 For our next weekend of hill climbs, James and I rode the ESCA Firle Bostal and Velopace Butts Lane hill climbs on…
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Well done to all our Inner Ring riders that took part in the Distance Challenge last weekend. We’ve seen great improvements during the year and 12 riders clocked new PBs. Link to the results below … https://www.ppycc.org.uk/activities/distance-challenge/
The details of today’s, and future, interval sessions can be read below and are also found on our Winter Activities page To keep those that wish to stay on top of their fitness during the winter in training miles we have our first interval session tomorrow. The track is not booked, there are no session…
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With the summer season closing next week we focus on interval training in tomorrow’s session. What is interval training? Well interval training is a way of structuring your riding so that you get maximum reward from your effort in the minimum time. “Sounds great!” However we could also describe this as digging deep and working…
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The second report on hill climbing by Francis Schofield. Francis and James do Hill Climbs, Week 2/4: Weekend 2 of the Hill climb season was to be the hardest yet for James and I, as we both signed up to race two events on Saturday and two events on Sunday, including the prestigious Catford and…
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