West Midlands Road Race League

MattShep · Veteran Member

RE: West Midlands Road Race League

mcorbett · Veteran Member

Some sage advice for the squad...

http://zoom-gordo.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-not-to-completely-suck-at-road.html

Birdy · Veteran Member

Thought I'd let you know I've sent entries in for:

April 10th - Paramount CRT Stan Jones Cycles RR (West Mids RR League)

And also:

April 17th - Echelon Cycles RR (This is NOT a West Mids RR League race, it is an 80 mile E/1/2/3 category race on the Welland circuit)

adam · Veteran Member

Just look up the entries on these races and most of the ones im able to do on a 4th cat license anyway - so no worries (can take my time to get the glory points!) mind you if your in a race the aim is to win.

so now looks like ill aim to do

27th March - got sevale open 10tt day before
5th May - Astley
19th June - day after our open 28m tt on same circuit
26th June- Derby
7th August- Astley
Not sure about others - think wife may have already sorted holidays- Therr above are def on circuits that i train on and like. (maybe not derby although i did like the circuit last year)

ill meet up with you guys for a training ride one day if you let me know when your out.

adam

adam · Veteran Member

I'll see if i join you guys in the higher cat races - If i get a pass out on sunday ill head down to bridgend to do the 4th cat circuit race with an aim to get some decent points to upgrade - ive entered the race on the 27th at Corley again 3rd and 4th cat. so target is to get license upgraded by April to 3rd cat. from looking at the race dates i'll do a few inbetween my target open tts (would like to do the Derby Mercury race)
see you guys out some time maybe.

adam

MattShep · Veteran Member

Sounds good to me! biggrin

Birdy · Veteran Member

I love it when a plan comes together!!

Look's like Matt's team leader as he was dropping me on the climbs yesterday

mcorbett · Veteran Member

Yep count me in.

MattShep · Veteran Member

I'll do as many of these as I can Birdy.

Birdy · Veteran Member

Who's up for this then??

It would be good to try and get as many of us as possible to ride some of these races. I won this series in 2009 and Echelon also won the team prize so I would like to win it again and it would be great to put the Worcester St Johns name back at the top again. I know Halesowen CC won it last year overall but they've lost a couple of their big point scorers from last year so the title could be ours for the taking!!

I've already entered the Bill Jinks RR and my entry for the Paramount RR on April 10th will be sent off this week. I should be riding the whole series and of course our own Gerry Hughes Memorial RR will be an important race and definitely a target for ANY ONE OF US to win!!

-- Edited by Birdy on Monday 7th of March 2011 09:46:59 PM

Birdy · Veteran Member

Taken from the BC Website:

2011 West Midlands Road Race League

This year's West Midlands Road Race League for 2/3/4 cats opens on 27 March with the Bill Jink's Memorial Road Race promoted by the Royal Sutton CC at Filongley.

With more events this year, riders from the region's clubs and teams will have plenty of opportunities to score points towards individual and team rankings. The individual winner will receive £50 and the team £100 and, thanks to Veloplus, there will be a leader's jersey for the leading rider to wear at each race.

There have been a couple of changes to the League rules:

- the number of riders from a club able to score points for the team award in each race is limited to five
- non West Midlands clubs promoting races within the region are eligible for membership of the league

The full schedule of events is:

27 March Bill Jink's Memorial Road Race Filongley
10 April Paramount CRT Stan Jones Cycles RR High Ercall
8 May Halesowen Road Race Astley
5 June Derby Mercury Summer Road Race Hanbury
19 June Stratford Road Race Inkberrow
26 June Gerry Hughes Memorial Road Race Welland
10 July Newport Shropshire CC Summer Road Race Sherrifhales
7 August Jean Baker Memorial Road Race Astley
TBC August Beacon RR TBC
11 September 2011 Circuit of the Wrekin Worfield
25 September Solihull RR TBC

For 3/4 cats the Development League events are:
24 April Two Counties/Norman Southall Memorial Trophy Road Race Bridgnorth
5 June Climb on Bikes Spring Road Race Sutton St Nicholas
12 June Stafford Road Cub Grand Prix Coates Heath
3 July Paramount CRT Summer Bontrager RR Leighton

The full rules and current standings can be found on the Red Kite Cycles web site at http://www.redkitecycles.com/info/west-midlands-road-race-league/