Tuesday 30 July 2013

Provisional Results... And A Big Thank You

....Thanks to Eamonn Deane's very excellent Local Riders, Local Races blog. Go here: http://blog.sportsmassagebournemouth.co.uk/2013/07/gittings-provides-fitting-tribute-to.html for photos and a race write up.

There is another write up here with Velo UK:

http://www.velouk.net/2013/07/29/reportresults-rob-jefferies-memorial/

If it sounds very similar, it's because it was also written by Eamonn.

In the meantime, I'm off to Sweden for a week poking around abandoned military facilities and it only remains for me to offer a HUGE thank you to EVERYONE involved in making the day a success. To everybody who helped on the day, to all the officials, to the commisaires and time keepers, to RoadPeace, to Change Partners Consultancy, to Guy, Jose, Aaron and the young lady who's name I did not catch from the AECC, to Dave Wade and Jurassic Cabs, Ros Spencer for funding a whole race AND helping with the scoring, to Charlie The Bikemonger, to CyclePaths, to Lush Cosmetics (you know who they are) to Adam for helping me come up with the concept to start with, to everyone who retweeted one of my desperate pleas for entries and techno Steve for keeping the music pumping.

Particular thanks go to Gerry Gray and to Graham Hurst for close to a year's worth of advice and guidance. I genuinely couldn't have done it without you, but then you probably already know that.

And finally, a big thank you to all the riders for making it all such an incredible race. As a fan of track racing, I thought the racing was awesome.

See you all next year.

Wednesday 24 July 2013

Entry On The Line (EOL) Still Available For The Rob Jefferies Memorial

Entry on the line is still available for the Rob Jefferies Memorial in all categories. The race is on Sunday 28th July, with events starting at 1pm. Sign on is from 11.30, so get down early to ensure one of the remaining places on the start list. The cost is £15 for seniors, £10 for youths.

Just to remind everybody, the race has a £600 prize fund and has categories for Elite (E/1/2/3/4), for club riders (3/4) as well as seperate races for both u16/14 boys and girls. The feature race, the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race is a 25km points race with a total prize fund of £200, including primes for every one of the sprint laps. The support race in the E/1/2/3/4 category, The Alan Spencer Devil has a prize fund of £100.

In the support categories, for 3/4 category riders, the series of events, including a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit and a devil, carries a £90 prize fund. It culminates in the 10km Eddie Beck Memorial race, also a points race and also with prizes offered for each of the sprint laps.

And last but not least comes the junior categories, with seperate races for u16/u14 boys and girls and with a total prize fund of £180 and prizes for the sprint laps of the points race finale. The girls races will be accepting entries for first and second year junior riders as well as seniors up to cat 2.

And if you can't ride, please come along and join in the fun. Spectators are more than welcome. We have music, we have food, we have everything you need for an afternoon spent watching some of the country's top riders in action.

Saturday 20 July 2013

What Do Points Races Make?.... Prizes!


Thanks to our sponsors Charlie The Bikemonger and CyclePaths, we now have, quite literally, a pile of stuff to win. See picture below (foot and dog bed not included).



And it's not just that!

The race has a £700 prize fund, spread through races for Elite (E/1/2/3/4), for club riders (3/4) as well as seperate races for both u16/14 boys and girls. The feature race, the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race is a 25km points race with a total prize fund of £250, including primes for every one of the sprint laps. The support race in the E/1/2/3/4 category, The Alan Spencer Devil, has a prize fund of £100.

In the support categories, for 3/4 category riders, the series of events, including a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit and a devil, carries a £90 prize fund. It culminates in the 10km Eddie Beck Memorial race, also a points race and also with prizes offered for each of the sprint laps (see above).

And last but not least comes the junior categories, with seperate races for u16/u14 boys and girls and with a total prize fund of £180 and prizes for the sprint laps of the points race finale. The girls races will be accepting entries for first and second year junior riders as well as seniors up to cat 2. 


For further details, email me: Gordon Skillen ggrs@sky.com

Friday 19 July 2013

Three Days Left To Enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial

You have THREE DAYS left to enter the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race.

Look at the kitten:

If you do not enter, you will make the kitten sad.

Do you want to make the kitten sad?

No, so go here:


...and get entering.

Wednesday 17 July 2013

Five Days Left To Enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet

There are now FIVE DAYS left to enter the Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet.

 That's five days left to enter the feature event with it's £200 prize fund, we have £100 available for the Alan Spencer Devil-Take-The-Hindmost as well £300 in prize funds for the support races with their own range of prizes to win.

We have races for the elite, national level boys, races for club level boys and girls as well as boys and girls races for youth a's and b's.

We have scratch races, we have roadman's pursuits, we have devils, we have a big finale points race for each tier of racing, each of which will be offering primes on all the sprint laps.

Event details here:
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#summary

Enter HERE:
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#entry

E/1/2/3/4 for the feature event, 3/4 for the support events and U16/U14 for the youths.

The weather's gonna be fantastic. See you there.

Tuesday 16 July 2013

Six Days Left To Enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial

You have SIX DAYS left to enter the Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet.

That's six days to enter either the main event, the 3/4s support event, or the u16s event.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

Good. Now get clicking...

Tuesday 9 July 2013

The Eddie Beck Memorial

Time is running out to get your entries in for the Eddie Beck Memorial. Entries close on 21st July, leaving slightly under two weeks to go here https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#entry and enter the event marked '3/4'.

This will enter you into a series of races (a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit, a devil take the hindmost and the grand finale points race) and give you the opportunity to win a range of prizes. The final, points, race has a 'prime' for every fifth of the forty laps, meaning that the first across the line will receive a prize every five laps.

But, to win it... you have to be in it! So get online and put your name down. Once again, enter here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#entry

...all for a very reasonable £15. See you on the start line.


Youth Events For Girls... And The Roadman's Pursuit.

After a flurry of female entries into the Youth events, we can now announce an exclusive, girls only event. There are already a series of 'Roadman's Pursuit' events for the top tier (The Rob Jefferies Memorial) the support events (The Eddie Beck Memorial) and the youth As and Bs.

These involve the top six finishers in the warm up races starting at six equidistant points around the track. On the gun the riders have to go from a standing start and either eliminate the riders ahead of them by catching them, or avoid being eliminated by not being caught. The winner is either the only rider left over the course of  16 laps for seniors and juniors or 8 laps for youths, or the rider with the best time over the full distance.

As mentioned, to qualify for this event you are required to finish in the top 6 of the warm up race and, as mentioned, for youths this will involve separate events for youth a's, youth bs and the top six youth girls of either category.

You can enter here but hurry, only two weeks left:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

Monday 1 July 2013

The Eddie Beck Memorial

As well as the elite level Rob Jefferies Memorial event, there is the Eddie Beck Memorial series of events. Named after another popular member of the South's friendliest club, the Eddie Beck Memorial comprises of a series of events identical to the 'elite' series of events but aimed toward the club rider.

Consisting of a 20 lap warm up race, a roadman's pursuit for the lucky first six of the warm up, a devil and a 40 lap points race, the events do not count towards and national hard track league points. However, they do all have prizes and the points race - like the headline event - also carries a prime for each of the sprint laps. So that's every fifth of the 40 laps, making a total of eight prizes up for grabs.

This event was dreamt up precisely as an event for riders of local track leagues to target. If you can handle yourself in your local 'b' league, wherever that may be, then put your name down, have a go and see if you can win some cash.

Enter here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting 

...you'll be wanting to click on 'Eddie Beck Memorial', obviously. Pay a very reasonable £15 and if you ride it right, you could have made that back within the first half hour.

More Sponsorship...

Another week, another sponsorship  announcement. This time, it is AECC - the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic - stepping up to provide assistance to both the prize fund and the riders at the event.

The Bournemouth-based AECC is one of the largest chiropractic colleges in Europe and students in their final year are set to work in the colleges own clinic, treating sports injuries and the like. And where better to find a group of people in need of - or soon likely to need - a little physiotherapy than a bike race?

Representatives of the college will be at the track during the event, so don't hesitate to tell them all about your aches and pains.

Check here for further info:

http://www.aecc.ac.uk/clinic/about.aspx

Enter the event here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting