ACT Veterans Weekly Bleat, Monday 27th August, 2018

Hello Vets,

In this week’s Bleat;

• Indoor Training
• Final Event Traffic Controller course for 2018
• Racing this Week

Please send me your contributions at: TheBleat@actvets.cc

Ian Morton

Indoor Training

Indoor training will focus this week on anaerobic capacity 1 & 2 minute efforts.

Bruce Griffin

Final Event Traffic Controller course for 2018

Please enrol for the next Event Traffic Controller course on 8 September!

We currently only have about 25 ETCs from a club of over 300 members. Members need to share the burden of helping to run races. Having enough traffic controllers available in the club is critical to our ability to run races in the ACT and it is likely we will need to have ETCs for NSW races in the future. ETCs are eligible for reimbursement of $100 for marshalling at ACT road races.

Course details are available on Cycling ACT’s web site http://www.act.cycling.org.au/Road/News/2018-cycling-event-traffic-controllers-course-dates-confirmed. Members previously accredited as ATCs will need to do the updated training course to get ETC accreditation. Please register for a place on the course ASAP as numbers are limited.

Ian McVay
Race Committee

RACING THIS WEEK:

Saturday, 1st September: Uriarra – Club Road Championships

Where: Register near Uriarra Homestead at the corner of Uriarra and Brinbabella Roads.
When: 1:30 pm.
Sign on: 15 mins before scheduled start time wearing your registered number.
Race Description:
M1 to M5 start on Brinbabella Road, ride to Mt McDonald turnaround and return, left at Homestead to short turn, down to top of crossing (TOC) and return to Homestead for 1 lap. Repeat for a 2nd lap. Distance 48km.
M6 to M9 and all Women start at Homestead, short turn, TOC, Mt McDonald, short turn, TOC finish. Distance 39km.
Start groups may combine age divisions, based on numbers of riders, but results will be determined based on age division.

* Age division is determined by the age you are on your birthday in 2018.

Race Director: Shane Warburton Contact: Email: robertothegreat975@gmail.com    Ph  0410620586

Marshals: Ed Joliffe, Terry Moore, Robert Brunato, Kim Malcolm, Alison Hale.

Upcoming Marshal Roster

Thank you to those who volunteered to help (noted below in black) at the races to September. The nominees (in blue) have been selected based on results from the previous summer race season and the period since they last helped at a race. Please advise your availability or unavailability to the race committee (race.committee@actvets.cc) as soon as possible.

We still need at few of race directors for Summer series races to the end of the year. Crit races are at Stromlo Forest Park on Tuesdays and road races are on Sunday mornings.

* denotes ETC required for ACT races.

Ian McVay
Race Committee