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CCS Open Event: 14th September
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Cycle Club Sudbury’s Open 10 mile TT will be held on Sunday 14th September 2008 and will be the B10/39R course which is the Lavenham to Sudbury and return course
The closing date for this event is Tuesday 2nd September 2008
All enquires to Brian Webber, CCS Event Secretary on 01787 379605
Fancy A Longer Run?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
This coming Bank Holiday Week end the Club is planing a slightly longer club run. From our normal meeting place of the Market Hill in Sudbury we will be heading out into the Suffolk countryside and hopefully clocking up a few more miles.
The planned cafe stop will be down on the Shotley marina, looking across at Felixstowe port.
Don’t worry the normal procedures will be followed; travel at the slowest man (person’s) pace, no one gets left behind.
The weather fore cast is looking good so hope to see you on the hill at 9 this Sunday.
Tagged: clubrun, shotley, sunday
CCS Reliability Ride 2008
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
The club has once again made it into the press, thanks to some words put together by our own Roger Rush.
Cycle Club Sudbury – Reliability Ride – Sunday 27th January 2008
C.C.S. organised their first event of the year in the form of a traditional Reliability Ride from the Stevenson Centre in Gt. Cornard. These rides are used to ‘kick start’ riders training schedules for the coming season and were held over two courses. The longer one at 48 miles, touched the edge of Stowmarket with the shorter version at 27 miles reaching Bildeston. The organisers were surprised at the popularity of the event as 95 riders arrived on the day, which were 30 more than the previous year. All the local clubs from East Anglia were well represented and the entry included a visiting pair of riders from the Camel Valley Club in Cornwall. C.C.S. was the largest participant with 18 riders, which was a good effort, considering the size of the club. With a minimum ride time allowed for each course, there were some fast finishing times recorded for the majority of the field as they enjoyed some rare winter sunshine around the Suffolk lanes. One visiting rider unfortunately found himself off course as he found himself about to join the A14 trunk road and had to make some hasty back tracking to rejoin the correct route. Only 7 riders did not finish the two courses and C.C.S. were congratulated by many of the riders for another well run event.
Sunday Club runs are still taking part from Sudbury Market Hill at 9.00am and new riders are always welcome to join in for a 30 – 40 mile jaunt through the quiet surrounding lanes which includes the obligatory ‘café stop’.
Tagged: free, press, reliability, report, ride
First CCS Quiz Night
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
The quiz night that was held on Thursday 13th December was a success.
We had a good selection of club members with their families turn up to compete in a very random quiz with a twist. We had two timed rounds with extra points gained with various picture and dingbats questions.
People turned up in twos and made teams of 4 or 5 which generally consisted of couples and families except team Rush who only had one Rush in there, I think the rest were honoree oneʼs for the evening.
So the teams that were battling it out were Team Rush, The On Timers (who turned up late!), Chain Reaction, Dougal and the Muppets. Due to the questions being random in the first round it was close between the teams but the On Timers were in lead. The second round saw the teams scores stretch out even further with at one point Team Rush who were trailing, catching up with the On Timers.
It would all boil down to the secret round on the Tour de France I had planned to throw any non cyclistʼs off which the On Timers were not cyclistʼs, they were Adamʼs family. At this point their was less than 10 point between them and a total of 15 points from this round. It was a multiple choice paper so there was a chance that any one not knowing the history of the tour could take a guess. Peter and I kept the scores a secret from the last two rounds as we read out the answer’s and heard cheers and groans from around the room.
The moment of truth, who won. It was a even score between Team Rush who consisted of Roger, Adam, Colin, Brian and Geoff and the On Timers who was Lyn and Ken, Adamʼs Mum and Dad, Sean his brother and Sarah, Seanʼs girlfriend.
Well done to you who won prizes and to all who took part. Other prizes went to the Muppets and Dougal for the extra picture rounds. Iʼd like to thank Peter for helping me in the quiz master duties and the internet with the questions.
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Speed and how to achieve it: An Evening With Bob Hayward
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
You werenʼt at the Stevenson Centre on 29 November? Your time-trial placingʼs may suffer as a result! Those who were there had a logical fact-based presentation from Bob Hayward, ETTA coach, which apparently virtually guaranteed we could all cycle faster as a result of a structured training programme taking no
more than 6 hours a week, including time-trialling time.
These were the basic theories; Set objectives for the year (which must be realistic) Establish a phased training programme, designed to peak no sooner than mid-way through the time-trial season.
Six hours training a week (up to half on a turbo trainer permissible)
The key to riding faster time-trials is training to ride faster than your current fastest time-trial average speed (fairly obvious when pointed out)
In more detail:
Phased training programme: – start date can be varied to suit individual season requirements.
Basic/Specific phases:
Ideally 2x 1.5hr + 1x3hr or 4×1.5hr periods per week. Known as endurance session; typically, for 3hr ride, start ride for 30min in high gear (70revs), then 15sec sprint in 52×15/16 gear, then main ride section for 90mins in low gear, spinning at 100+revs, then end section of 60mins in high gear (70revs), with 15sec sprint in 52×15/16 gear halfway through this. This should all be at “conversation pace”, except the sprints; should also be at your own pace, not that of others.
Transition phase:
Ideally, 4×1.5hr sessions (3 on consecutive days, with 2day break before timetrialling) first session, speed splits training; 15mins low gear, 15mins intervals training, 60mins low gear, again “conversation pace”. The speed splits intervals training is made up of short bursts of speed with recovery intervals; see table
below.
Interval. % of t/t spd. Recry. No. Name
10 min 105 2 min 2 Split 10
5 min 107 2 min 2-4 Split 5
3 min 110 3 min 2-6 Split 3
1 min 115 1 min 2-5 Lactate
15-30sec 125 4 min 4-10 L Sprint
sprint
5-10sec 130 2 min 4-10 S Sprint
burst
Second and third training sessions; endurance training as in Basic/Specific phase.
Fourth session; time-trialling!
Season phase:
Ideally, 4×1.5hr sessions (3 on consecutive days, with 2 day break before timetrialling) first session, speed split intervals training as Transition phase second session, endurance training as in Basic/Specific phase third session, speed sprint interval training as table above.
Fourth session; time-trialling!
General:
Have an easier week every 3 or 4 weeks! Riding to work regularly is excellent background work. If you miss some training through tiredness, donʼt add extra training to catch up. Recovery times decrease as you get fitter (it says here!)
Increase work-rates gradually and progressively.
All in all, this was an excellent session, with itʼs basic assumption that anyone could improve t/trial times with structured training. My personal target is a sub 28m on the Sudbury 10 – if thatʼs achieved, the assumption is proved! For those who werenʼt able to attend, itʼs possible Geoff Morse may have copies of the handouts
provided.
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