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Evening Ten Time Trials
August 24th is the final Evening Ten for this year.
Thanks to all who have taken part to make this our most popular and successful season for quite some years. We hope you've all enjoyed your 'suffering' and will return for more of the same next year! As usual, our sincere thanks to the team of Time Keepers and Pusher Offs, without whom we couldn't run the events. See you all next April.
More New Kit
The next batch of kit has now been ordered, with an expected delivery date of October. You can still add to the 'Wish List' for more garments using the Members Forum, and we will order again once the minimum quantity targets are met.
Mapperley Open Ten Mile Time Trial
Saturday May 29th The event was marred somewhat by very unseasonable weather conditions, but this didn't stop the majority from riding. In fact some excellent times were posted under the circumstances, and winner Matt Bottrill (I-Ride.co.uk) again broke the Course Record with a fantastic time of 20:21, some 49 seconds ahead of James Perkins (Zenith CC) in second place in 21:10, with Mark Mallender (Rutland CC) just another 4 seconds back in third with 21:14. Mapperley rider Shaun Eden posted a Course Best 21:40 to take 4th place, leading Mapperley CC to the Fastest Team prize in our own event for the first time in quite some years! Jason Varnam ( 22:21) and Ewan Tarrant (22:37) were the other two counters towards this achievement. A basic results sheet is available here:
Open 10 Results 2010
Matt Bottrill on his way to the winning time of 20:21 minutes. © P Collier 2010 |
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Mapperley Go Italian
With almost perfect timing, the new style kit finally landed from Italy, and excellent service from My Team Giordana got it to us in time for the first Sunny Saturday Club Run.
The happy band of early recipients line up alongside a few still waiting to receive theirs at the new meeting point at Lowdham.
In general, everyone seems very happy with the new design and kit quality, so we are already looking to place a repeat order. If you're new to the Club, or are thinking of joining and would like some then get in touch on a Club Run or at the Evening Tens.
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Resplendent in most items of the new kit, the Saturday Club Run at the new rendezvous at Lowdham. A few show off the old style by way of contrast, and one shows how to mix armwarmers any way you like and get away with it.
Photo courtesy JV iPhone. |
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Evening Ten Time Trials
The Evening Ten Races for 2010 will start on Tuesday April 13th at 6.45pm, staying at 6.45pm for Tuesday April 20th, then moving to 7.00 the week after, April 27th. Due to the potential number of riders the start time will then becoome 7.15 and remain at that untill further notice. See the Racing page for more details.
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Club Forum
We are pleased to announce that a new facility for Members has been created and tested over the past couple of weeks, namely a Members Forum. This can be found at: http://www.mapperleycc.org/forum
This new Forum allows quick and easy contact between members, and a variety of Topics are already active. Anyone can view the Forum, but only Club Members can contribute, and to do so you must first register by following the instructions on the Read Me page. So why not pop along and check out what we get up to, and sign up if you haven't already done so! |
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Saturday Club Runs
Please note that the Saturday Club Run now starts at the summer time of 9.00am as from Saturday April 3rd. Also we haved relocated the rendezvous point to a new area, after a few problems getting everybody away safely on some Club Runs. The new meeting point is only about 60 metres from the original spot, across the road nearer the houses at the start of Lowdham village. There is a picture showing the new location on the Club Runs page. Sunday runs will also meet here from now on.
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Club Nights
Meet on the first TUESDAY of the month, at the Ramsdale Park Golf Centre, Oxton Lane, Calverton. Join us in the bar from 8pm onwards, or 7pm if you wish to indulge in a meal first (or maybe swing at a basket of balls on the Golf Range).
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Mapperley CC Mallorca Training Camp - April 2007
This year's Camp now seems but a dim, distant, wet memory. For once, the weather was not quite what we've come to expect from Mallorca!
Nevertheless, and as you might expect, our heroic group stoically suffered the misery of being unable to ride for nearly two and a half days, and turned this "bike downtime" into a positive by arranging various other forms of training. This involved, in the main, Carb and Protein loading, upper body weight training using varied heavy liquid filled glass weights, and for some of the extreme athletes amongst the group, late night (or even early morning) triathlon swim training in the Mediterranean!Eventually the weather relented, and began to resemble the Mallorcan climate we've all come to know and love, thus enabling our intrepid group to get on with the more important aspects of such trips, namely suffering on long climbs, dare-devil descending, cross country orienteering (with and without maps) and most importantly, "Eric Baiting". All of this, of course, fueled by copious amounts of pasta and varied (jamon y queso) bocadillos!
Next year, plans are afoot to change the venue completely (rather than just relocating on the Island), and currently Italy is the front runner. Watch this space for future info. |
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Ready for the final day's run to San Salvador! For more images, click the picture. |
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