KPC Race For Hope 4th Dec & Mbuya Barracks Hill Climb 5th Dec

Come, the weather here is luvvly!
Kampala, Uganda, East Africa.

Non Stop Winter Training

The cold weather didn't deter the CCH youngsters from turning in up in large numbers at the club this morning to take part in some indoor training. Twenty riders put the spinners, turbo trainers and rollers to good use in between running sessions round the Downs and core fitness sessions on the mats. There were no complaints about the cold after all that. In attendance today were two new members who race for the Southwold Primary School team - Bici-Club en Southwold - Klaudia and Nikola - so welcome to them and hopefully they'll be joined by more of their team mates. Bici-Club en Southwold has already produced two strong CCH riders in Shiva and Noah and as the schools race league progresses we look forward to welcoming more riders this way.

Ned gets to grip with the the rollers

Who needs central heating?

On a cold and frosty morning...

Dave grows an antenna from his helmet in an attempt to beat the cold...

The Early Riser riders set off from the club this morning in a temperature of about -4C - which must have went down another notch or two by the time they climbed out of Loughton towards Epping. Icy conditions aside they enjoyed the ride and bumped into the A team of Clem, Alex and Tao at the tea hut on their way up to Hertford with Joseph and the ever young Dave Carr.

Is the the Lea valley ice rink?

Club Runs - Early Riser Ride - Women's Ride

Please note the CCH club runs are currently meeting at the Lea Valley Ice Centre at 9am on Sunday mornings not 10am as it states on the side here - all are welcome to come along. The website is in development and all club activities will be properly flagged up on it when it comes online.

The Early Riser ride leaves from the clubhouse at 1 Olympus Square at 8am on Sunday mornings. Contact Andy

Women and girl riders (13+) are invited to join the bi-monthly CCH women's ride on the first and third sundays of the month. Your lead riders are Liz Rees & Anna Hart
13-18 year olds please contact Keir for further information and consent forms.

December rides -

Sunday 5th December Epping loop (20-30 miles) 9.10am Chingford train from Hackney Downs.

Sunday 19th December mulled wine at the Mole Trap (15 miles) 10.25 am Chingford train from Hackney Downs.

For all rides meet on train platform. Please bring spare tubes & tools, water and oyster cards.

Deep in the mud at Gunpowder Park

The boys line up for the Under 12's.

Sunday November 21 saw the ninth round of the Mosquito London/South East Cross League held at Gunpowder Park, London, promoted by London Phoenix and Lee Valley Youth CC. Artie rode in the Under 10's whilst Ned, Logan,Bede and Frank rode in the Under 12's. The going was very boggy which made for hard racing. Harry and Neil took part in the veteran's and senior's race later on with Harry finishing well whilst Neil had to retire due to a broken deraillieur - one of six similar mechanical breakdowns on the day.Full results here.

Andy's photos here.

Frank going strong

Bede going for it

Meanwhile Sam took getting close to the mud to a new level at training on Saturday earning him crash of the day award.

Hackney Primary Schools Cycling League

The girls line up

Amelia on the alpine circuit

The boys line up

CCH riders were out in force at the Hackney Primary Schools Cycling League circuit race held at Hog Hill circuit on Thursday 18th of November. Representing Gayhurst Community School Cycling Team were Amelia, Bede, Frank and Logan, who along with their school team mates competed against Kingsmead and Southwold Primary Schools. Peter Cattermole from British Cycling came along to check out the racing and hand out prizes. Amelia came 6th in the girls race whilst Logan came 1st in the boys followed in 2nd place by Bede and Frank in 5th.

Frank looking stylish

Bede and Logan pull away

Logan enjoying his second win of the week

Many thanks to all those who helped organise and run this event - Andy, Harry, Gary, Kate, Markus, Joe - CCH for providing bikes to race on and Mick for coming up trumps with the minibus. The schools league features monthly events with more schools joining and many of the riders keen to join CCH will ensure it'll be a regular part of this blog.

Go-Race - Hillingdon 13/11/10

Twelve riders from the under 13's squad ventured over to Hillingdon Cycle Circuit to take part in a British Cycling Go-Race event last Saturday. The riders rode three races each in their age categories on the circuit and in the mud.

- see photos here

- more photos from Andy here

The riders put on a good showing with podiums for Mostyn, Garvey, Jack, Ned, Shaquille, Logan and Artie. With Ned doing especially well with two 1st places and a third giving him overall 1st for Under 12's.