Tuesday 28 July 2009

Drumlanrig Root Rats Coaching Thursday 30th July

This weeks Sprogs coaching session (U12 group) will run from 17:15 to 18:30 and the Yoofs (U16 group) will run from 19:00 to 20:30. We are planning to for the Yoofs group to take a ride this week, so please bring along something to drink.

Next Tuesday will be the next of our series of trail building sessions. Please come along at 18:30 and join in. Don't forget to bring a spade and / or a rake, gardening gloves, suitable clothes and something to drink.

The next session in the Scottish Cycling Regional School of Racing Programme is a Mountain Bike session being held at Cathkin Braes Country Park in the South of Glasgow near Castlemilk, which will also be the venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games Mountain Bike Race. The aim of the session is to allow riders the opportunity to practice and learn some inside tips for the upcoming round of the Scottish Cross Country Mountain Bike (http://www.sxc.org.uk/) series being held in the park on the 9th of August. The Glasgow RDC, Rab Wardell will be leading the coaching activities on the day and Paul Newnham the Scottish Mountain Bike Talent Team coach for Scotland will be helping out. The session will be open to riders aged 12 to 18 year olds (under 12’s will e considered based on ability) and will begin at 10am and finish at 3pm with a break for lunch which will not be provided. Please get in touch with Robert Wardell on robert.wardell@scottishcycling.org.uk 07508 040 069 if you would like to take part.

Tuesday 21 July 2009

Drumlanrig Root Rats Coaching Thursday 23rd July

Coaching is back on for both groups from this week onwards. As usual, the Sprogs (U12) group will run from 17:15 to 18:30 and the Yoofs (U16) group will run from 19:00 to 20:30. I am planning to run the Yoofs coaching session on the new singletrack section that was established through our trail building work at the start of July.

Have you all been following the Tour de France on TV? If not, it's well worth a watch this week as the race goes through the Alps - it's usually on 7-8pm on ITV4. Talking of racing, Jack and Ewan were up in Innerleithen this weekend for the British MTB Champs and both turned in impressive performances - more details are on the blog. We also saw Liam Killeen and Oli Beckingsale going head to head for the senior championship.

Monday 20 July 2009

British XC Champs

This weekend saw the British XC Championships take place at Innerleithen. The course
was combination of an unforgiving and gruelling climb followed a long, menacingly technical descent. The Drumlanrig Rik's Bike Shed team were represented by Ewan Clark and Jack Taylor.

Ewan's race got of to a superb start, entering the forest in third place despite a very stong field in the Junior race. From then on, he rode well to complete the race in fourth place. Jack too had a good race, making his return after the injury he collected at the Scottish Champs last month. He finished in tenth place - hs best ever national result. The photograph above shows the start of Jack's race in the Youth category.