22.01.16 CCH social date for your diary - Awards Night celebrating 2015

Happy New Year 2016!
Our next social date for your diary - CCH Awards Night

A celebration of achievements for the riders of ‘CCH’ in 2015

Eighteen awards on the night from

 Cyclo Cross to Road, Time Trial and Special Achievements.

All categories will be covered for male and female riders in the club from U10 to senior. Trophies for all winners!

7.00pm arrivals, 8pm awards. DJ (MiHS) and buffet bar (VENERDI!). Food & snack donations very welcome.

£5 on the door. Youth £2 

Friday 22nd January 2016
The Hackney Marshes Centre, Homerton Road E9 5PF

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HASVC's training programme Jan, Feb & March 2016

HASVC Training programme Jan, Feb & March 2016 

Lee Valley VeloPark - Mondays 5-6pm

 

 4th, 11th, 18th 25th January, 1st, 8th February & 21st March; all Velodrome

15th, 22nd and 29th February – BMX track (lead coach - Tai Suleyman)
7th March – MTB trails (all bike hire is included, but not shoes)

Due to UCI World Cup 14th will be off site activity to be confirmed (TBC) & 28th March WattBike Studio session TBC ASAP

Cometh the hour cometh the team - 35.454 km !

Hackney After School Velodrome Club (HASVC) has produced a clear and tangible outcome in the CC Hackney, Young Hackney, Sported, & Interlinkx CiC sponsored mixed youth group hour setting record attempt: 35.454 km

Well done to all involved, that's riders, parents, the LVV (venue) crew,  officials and staff. A great effort and a new bench mark for other youth groups from around the world to target - game on!

7th December - a date with data.

A graph showing lap peaks from the training session last week.

Assistant coach Lindsay Parker has collated performance data from our last training session before the big day on 21st December at Lee Valley Velodrome.

 

"With less than 2 weeks to go until Hackney After School Velodrome Club's landmark 1 hour mixed youth group record attempt, both coaches and riders are beginning to make their final preparations. While the riders are continuing to work on all important group techniques like drafting, communication and change-overs, as well as keeping their defences up against winter colds.

Although early indications suggest that the 54.526km that Sir Bradley Wiggins rode solo at the very same velodrome about 6 months ago may be a little beyond this young group's current capabilities, the coaches are focusing the team on simply setting a distance that satisfies the independent British Cycling judges according to the rules."

Hackney After School Velodrome Club - HASVC
No.1 MONDAY 21 st DECEMBER 2015 1pm – 3pm
Mixed youth group 250m velodrome hour record rules:
1. Any record attempt must be judged and ratified by qualified track commissaries of the host nation’s cycling governing body in
accordance with the rules as set below.
2. At the time of any record attempt all competing riders must be aged no younger than 12 and no older than 16.
3. No more than 16 riders are permitted on the track at any given time.
4. Proof of age must be provided by participants to the independent judging team.
5. All competing riders must be registered, signed-in & numbered with males wearing different coloured numbers to the female
riders.
6. Track pursuit pads must be out during the record attempt.
7. Appropriate youth gearing on standard fixed wheel track bikes must be used without tri-bars.
8. A minimum of 4 riders must be on the pace line at any given time (4+1 to allow for changes)
9. A minimum of one accompanying female or male rider must be in the pace group at any given time.
10. If there is a gap of any more than a bike length between any of the front four riders on the pace line that is carried on for more
than 250m (and if there is not a 'legal' quartet behind to step in as the new lead group) then the record setting attempt would
be declared null and void by the event commissaries.
11. Riders can only join the pace group at the back of the pace line.
12. At one hour, the final distance reached is to be recorded at the point on the track where the front wheel arrives in the first mixed grouping of 4 pace line riders that includes at least one female or one male competitor.

"Last Monday's session saw the older group of riders doing 2x10 minute sessions in which the record attempt's rules were adhered to: no fewer than 4 riders can be in the group at any time, and there must be at least one boy and one girl in the group at all times.

Although it doesn't look particularly consistent, all the lap times were within a 3 second spread, which is promising for a 1 hour attempt where consistency and rhythm are crucial for success. The fastest laps were completed at just over 40kph - very impressive! As the trend line shows the group got faster and faster as the session progressed: also very promising as the group faces up to their hour attempt. Come and support the group as they undertake this cutting edge challenge."

Lead coach Keir Apperley:

'For the team effort on 21st December, the main message to all riders is that it's a new record setting attempt as it's not been done before. The focus is on the process and not to risk failure because of maybe pushing the pace too high, which could result in the rules being broken. For this reason I'm not so interested in how fast or far they are going for this one; I'm just looking to make sure that they all keep it together and set a new record that our independent British Cycling judges are satisfied with. Our supporters would do well to shout "keep it together!" rather than "faster faster!"  :)

 

Updates for CCH members attanding HASVC

HASVC news updates for 14th & 15th December 2015

Session plans:
Monday 14th December 4-5pm
Due LVV staff having their Xmas dinner party on this day the track is unavailable for us to use. Instead we will be in the meeting room to support and contribute to the HASVC short movie project that is lead by Austin Edwards's. This is for the historic record and to evidence our work for HASVC's sponsors and funders.
It's feedback the time and an opportunity to provide your comments on film about what HASVC means to you. Some footage will be taken outside with the velodrome behind for added effect.
After this we shall move to another location (a nearby cafe or restaurant) for a staff meeting to prepare for 21st December's double session and AOB. Older age group young riders are welcome to join in and contribute at the stage too.

Bjorn, James, Ryan & Israel

Bjorn, Daniel, Alex & James

Tuesday 15th December
As a special we have the Watt Bike VeloStudio room from 5-6pm. In the first period we will be logging our first SMART goal tests for HASVC riders with some free training training time after these are recorded.

HASVC record attempt flyer - share and promote 21.12.15

HASVC record attempt flyer - share and promote 21.12.15

Venerdi restaurant & bike in the news

Good news from Hackney, below is a copy of the article that was recently published by Hackney Gazette:

Restaurant links up with Cycling Club Hackney to help young riders

07:30 29 October 2015

CC Hackney riders at Venerdi restaurant

Italian restaurant Venerdi are now working together with Cycling Club Hackney to give help and support to young riders.

The Chatsworth Road restaurant have initially supplied a branded quality road bike – a lightweight Pinarello racer – for the club to use in races and training.
The bike, which bears the colours of the sponsor, will be in action soon with young CC Hackney rider Israel Oketade in the saddle. Now he is ready and equipped to go hill climbing this autumn and the remaining 2015 season circuit races.
CC Hackney’s lead coach Keir Apperley said: “Having a bike branded in this way for riders new to cycle sport and quality cycling is special. We aim to roll this out as a way of achieving progress with other businesses in the borough.
“This is so that more young people on CC Hackney’s outreach programme will be able to take up cycle racing on competitive bikes and in the process learn about the responsibilities of working with sponsors.”