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Sadly, our regular café after club runs and races has had to close. The Auction Rooms Café was a place of excellent value with a welcoming atmosphere that will be difficult to find elsewhere in the island. |
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Jayson Lee died suddenly on 17 January at the age of just 38. Jayson was an active member of our Club, first competing in Club events in the late 80's, when he was a junior and was followed by his dad, Ronnie and younger brother Brenton, better known as Bomber. Jayson was a member of the Racing Committee between 1994 and 1998 and a Vice -President of the Club from 1998 to 2000. He then went on to become an active member of the Jersey Spartan Athletic Club, mainly in their road and cross country events. |
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| Keith White and John Derrien are making plans for trips to Brittany for both the Jean François Rault and La Pierre Le Bigaut Randonnées. If you're interested, read this... |
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| Commonwealth Games hopeful, Chris Spence, gets his season off with a creditable 5th place in the Red Trolley Classic held in San Diego. |
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| Our president, Allan Miller is inviting riders to consider travelling to the UK to take part in this year's Rudi Project series. Forming a group of riders willing to make the effort to get to these races on the Mainland will ease travel and keep costs per rider low. And remember, each rider can apply for a travel grant up to £100 to help with the travel costs and entry fees. |
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| CCC riders, Chris Spence, Adam Wojtkiewicz and Chris Saviour were in action the first weekend in March competing in their first UK national B event for 2009, The Jock Wadley Memorial, held over 83 rolling miles in Colchester, Essex. |
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Four riders from Jersey’s Caesarean Cycling Club – Chris Spence, Adam Wojtkiewicz, Robin Ovenden and Chris Seviour – took part in the 50th anniversary of the National B race, the Dulwich Primavera Wally Gimber Trophy, on 15 March. This tough 75 mile classic early-season event takes in the undulating countryside of rural Kent and always attracts a top class field of riders. |
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A colleague of (Jersey's premier recumbent cyclist) Keith Davis, Ronald van de Ven, has a nephew, Teun, who is cycling from Holland to Jersey. Ronald has asked that the local clubs are made aware of this mighty challenge which is in support of scientific research into Cystic Fibrosis, an illness Teun himself suffers from. |
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Three riders from Jersey’s Caesarean Cycling Club – Chris Spence, Adam Wojtkiewicz and Chris Seviour – took part in the Surrey Cycle Racing League Three Day Road Race, sponsored by Sigma Sport, over the Easter Weekend. In a tough three days of racing, over 200 miles and some rolling terrain, they were competing against strong UK racing teams and clubs, including fellow Jerseyman, Richard Tanguy, riding for the Pendragon Kalas, drawn from south-west England. |
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| Two riders from Jersey’s Caesarean Cycling Club – Adam Wojtkiewicz and Robin Ovenden took part in the Les Ingman Memorial Road Race on 27 April. This 130km National B event was held on the Bletchingly circuit which is reputedly one of the hardest road race circuits in Surrey. |
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Chris Spence ended a two week trip in San Diego with an Excellent fifth Place in the San Luis Rey Road Race in the Pro.1.2 Division held over 88 challenging miles. |
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| Chris Spence was in action in May at the Lincoln Grand Prix, close to 200 riders lined up for the start which from the off was chaotic with speeds of 30 plus mph in the neutralised area |
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Robin Ovenden from the Caesarean Cycling Club travelled to Sussex to take part in this year’s National B BEC Open Road Race, held on Sunday 10th May 2009. The weather was sunny and near perfect for the 65 riders that started out on the fast undulating 78 mile Lingfield circuit. |
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| Chris Spence continues his run of bad luck in a cold and wet Black Downs GP. |
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| The committee would like to express their desire to see riders competing in club Kit. The JCA in particular wishes to encourage the wearing of club Kit during JCA events. More... |
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Here are the full results of the Town Criterium and other Whitsun Weekend races with images of the events from here. You'll all be pleased to hear that Rhys Lewis' crash during the Ladies/Vets/Juniors event caused no serious injury and he's keen to get back on his bike as soon as possible. |
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| Here's a note from Ronald and Susan van de Ven: just a quick note to once again thank you all so very much for your support for Teun's Cycle Challenge and your extremely generous donations.The little man and ourselves have done our sums and we are all amazed by the final amount he managed to raise between Jersey and Holland. So much so that the little man wanted to tell you himself, and he's made up a little recording to do so. |
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Here's information, from Jersey Round Table, of this year's Tour de Jersey Cycle Challenge in aid of Jersey Hospice Care which is being held on the 5th July. |
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| Chris Spence, from Jersey's Caesarean Cycling Club, claimed a respectable fourth place finish in the only National B road race being held in the UK at the weekend. |
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La Marmotte: 174kms with 5,000 metres of climbing over the Col Du Glandon, Col Du Telegraphe, Col Du Galibier and finishing at the top of Alpe D’Huez. Here's how the eight CCC riders coped with one of the toughest randonnées. |
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A number of Jersey riders travelled to Provence to take part in this year's L'Etape du Tour which finished at the summit of Mont Ventoux. |
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CCC riders; Robin Ovenden, Adam Wojtkiewicz, Ian Cabot and Erik Le Brun, the “Jersey Rough Riders”, set themselves a gruelling challenge when competing in the 2009 Trans Alp Challenge - “Toughest mountain bike race in the world” |
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Four members of the Caesarean Cycling Club took part in the 24hr mountain mayhem bike race held in Malvern, Ledbury. Renowned for being the best and hardest endurance race in the UK it attracted over 2500 competitors, made up of 450 teams and 150 soloists and was watched by in excess of 15,000 spectators and supporters. |
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After the rigours of the Marmotte seven members of the CCC saw fit to recuperate in Provence and take on the various challenges of Mont Ventoux. Helen and Sam Goulding, Simon Fenton, Gary de Gruchy, Torty Hubert, Peter Glendewar and Dave Mayman. Here's what happened, and why. |
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In form CCC rider Chris Spence was in action again in August racing the National B Python Racing Team Summer Road Race. The event on the day attracted another full field with some of the country's regular Premier Calendar riders choosing to ride. |
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Fancy riding a stage of the Tour of Britain - and raise money for fighting Prostate Cancer? Here's a message from Mike Price a Jersey based trustee of the Prostate Cancer Charity: For the first time ever, keen cyclists are being offered the opportunity to ride a stage of the Tour of Britain and help to fight Prostate Cancer at the same time. I thought your members would be interested in testing their endurance on Stage 5 of the Tour of Britain. This is the same demanding 145km course that the professionals ride and is taking place near Stoke-on-Trent on 6th September. For more information and to sign up to this unique event, please visit the website www.unitebycycling.org.uk. Prostate Cancer kills one man every hour in the UK alone. The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Tour of Britain are working together to help fight prostate cancer on every front. Further information about the charity can be found at www.prostate-cancer.co.uk.
Many of you will remember Norman Clayton a long standing member of the CCC who died of prostate cancer in 2007. |
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3 Jours de Plouay was an exciting weekend for one junior club member, Sabine Minchinton-Gilley. Besides meeting the current women's Olympic Road and World Champion Nicole Cooke she took part in the open 15Km mountain bike VTT randonnée with her mum Lynn. |
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CCC riders Chris Spence and Adam Wojtkiewicz resumed their UK racing with the Surrey League 5 day. Although the field was not full some respected Elite riders were in the line up along with mainly 1st category riders. They were joined by Jerseyman based in the UK, Richard Tanguy, riding for Pendragon-Kalas. It was to be a challenging five days with some long stages |
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Robin Ovenden crossed over to Guernsey at the end of August to race a two up TT with James McLaughin on their L'Eree course. Conditions were not ideal being a bit winder than the riders would have liked but at least in a favorable direction. Robin and James had a good ride and posted a time of 52.03 which sets a new all-comers TTT record, beating the previous record by 2 minutes. The tandem record was also broken (Chris Le Page and Graham Le Maistre in 53:31), along with seven other personal bests. A good day for all. |
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Robin Ovenden travelled to the UK to complete against the nation's best riders in the British Time Trial Championship finishing in 21st place in an excellent time of 1:10:51. The winner, Bradley Wiggins (in a league of his own), won in 1:02:15, with Michael Hutchinson 2nd in 1:04:34 and Chris Newton 3rd in 1:06:14.
Also competing was Club President, Allan Miller, who had the pleasure of passing Allan Renyard of Guernsey Velo Club on his way to 106th in the Masters' event in a time of 54:51 Renyard finished in a time of 58:07 and 120th. The winner was Jeff Jones of Chippenham & District Wheelers in a time of 45:09.
The Men's event was 3 laps - 30.2 miles. Masters' 2 laps - 20.8 miles. |
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CCC rider Chris Spence was in action again racing in his last UK race for 2009. Spence lined up in the Surrey Road race promoted by VC Meudon held over a modified Cutmil circuit of 76 miles which featured a new testing climb up to the finish. |
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Caesarean Cycling Club’s contribution to the 2009 Duo Normand was one of quality rather than quantity. With probably one of the smaller turnouts from CCC pairs in recent years, a number of Caesarean riders paired up with both club mates and riders from other Channel Island clubs to produce some fine rides and some record-breaking times |
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Chris Spence was in action recently racing in his last UK race for 2009: the JP's Sussex Border Race 2009, held at Rowlands Castle, Hampshire by Southdown Velo on October 4. Victory went to pre-race favourite Wouter Sybrandy, of the Sigma Sport Team, but Spence finished a creditable sixth. |
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ESC will be running three hour workshops on Safeguarding and Protecting Children aimed at clubs who have children as members. If you're interested in attending on either Friday 20th, Saturday 21st or Sunday 22nd of November please get in touch with Gordon Wright on 744764. The club will cover the cost of the course. |
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Hunter Allen is returning to Jersey and will be giving a seminar on the Saturday afternoon of 7th November at the Don Theatre from 1pm, fee for all is £20 as this time the event is a JCA event. He will also be performing Lactate testing again and anyone interested should mail testing@ccc.je ASAP to reserve a slot. Testing fee will be £75 with the test taking approx 1 hour again to be held at Fort regent. Days for testing will be Fri 6th November, Sunday 8th and Monday 9th |
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On 17th October, the last of 8 of the Rudi Project UK National Time Trial series---which 'El Presidente' has been riding throughout this year---was held on a course based on Devises in Wiltshire. Allan made a real 'flying' visit to the race leaving Jersey on the overnight ferry to Portsmouth on the Friday night at 9pm, riding the race at 3pm on the Saturday afternoon, and then returning to the island at 6am (ouch) on the fast ferry back from Weymouth on the Sunday morning. |
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Attention all who wish to do a First Aid course with a view to either:
1. Becoming Involved in assisting in the running of YDP Sessions
2. Becoming a British Cycling Certified Coach - possible course being arranged in Jersey by BC for January (Watch this Space!) - if you fancy the coaching course, you will need this First Aid qualification first. |
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Commonwealth Games candidates; Chris Spence, Robin Ovenden and Richard Tanguy will be carrying the Queen's Baton at FB Fields on Thursday 19 November as part of the Baton Relay – their stint is at 5.30pm and will last for about ten minutes. If any one is available, it would be good to show our support for the Games & for our potential Delhi athletes. |
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Commonwealth Games candidates; Chris Spence, Robin Ovenden and Richard Tanguy carried the Queen's Baton at FB Fields. |
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If you're interested in travelling to the UK to take part in any of the 2010 Rudy Project Events, please get in touch with Club President, Allan Miller at president@ccc.je |
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