Club AGM and St Valentines Day Mass-cycle

The first of these, on Sunday the 14th February is the return of the ever popular Sunday Muddy Sunday format. We are hoping for as many club members as possible to turn up at the Castle a week on Sunday to go for a ride, so please mark the date in your diary. The time will be 10am and we are planning to take a group photograph at some point in the proceedings with a view to getting an article about the club into the local press.

The second event is the our AGM and this will take place from 7pm on Tuesday the 23rd February. We are hoping that everyone both young and old who has been involved with the club over the last year will come along and take part. We will announce the venue in the near future - last year we held the meeting in the Auldgirth Inn and we are looking for a similar venue this year. As before, please let me know if you cannot make the meeting, but would like to give an input.

Root Rats Cycling Shirts

Here is a first veiw of the design of the Root Rats cycling shirts. These shirts will be available to order in all sizes at a reasonable price in the near future.

Cyclocross race results

The last two weeks have seen some outstanding performances from Drumlanrig riders in cyclocross races up and down the country. First of all, Jamie Willoughby became the Scottish U12 Cyclocross Champion at Glenrothes. Ariana won the race for the U10 girls. This weekend saw Cameron Scott take a convincing win in the third round of the South of Scotland Youth Cyclocross League at Heathhall. This second win secured his overall victory in U12 series. Meanwhile, Jack Taylor made the trip to Mull for the final two rounds of the Scottish Cyclocross and continued with his run of excellent results in his first season as a Junior to seal his victory in the overall Scottish series. Well done to everyone - the picture below shows Jamie on the podium in Glenrothes lofting his trophy.

Drumlanrig Root Rats Coaching 10th December

This Thursday night is the last of our floodlit coaching sessions before the Christmas holidays. The session will start at 19:00 and last until 20:30 and as ever will be supported by Richard Lord from Scottish Cycling. This will be the highlight of our series of floodlit sessions on cyclocross and we are aiming to cover the full micro cyclocross circuit including the bank and the descent. Please note that this session is open to both the Sprogs and Yoofs age groups.

Don't forget that this Saturday is the Stepping Stanes round of the South of Scotland Youth Cyclocross Series. Full details of this race can be found at the Stepping Stanes web-site at http://www.steppingstanes.co.uk/. Even more reason to come along and Thursday and brush up on your skills.

The Scottish cyclocross championships were held last Sunday at Glenrothes and the club were represented by the Willoughbies and Taylors. A full report will be posted on the blog (www.rootrats.blogspot.com) with some photos, but the big news is that Jamie and Ariana both won their age group races making them the Scottish Champions.

Stepping Stanes Youth Cyclo Cross Race

December 12th sees the final round of the South of Scotland Youth Cyclo Cross series. We have a great course lined up at Heathhall, Dumfries. Under 16's only, races for under 10, under 12, under 14 and undeer 16, boys and girls. All welcome. see www.steppingstanes.co.uk for details.

Note. race HQ is the old runway opposite the Air Museum on Tinwald Downs Road. NOT at the Pines golf centre as previously advised.