​Please let me know if you can help!
We are again hosting ‘Round One’ of the Northampton & District Cycling Association time trial series, on the 18.7 miles version of our Middleton course. Normally held on the second Saturday in April the event has been brought forward to avoid conflict with traffic from local events. We normally have 70-100 entries; I hope this early date won’t put off too many.
Again we need lots of help for the event – approximately 20 people including around 15 marshals, plus a holder-up at the start, somebody to help the finish timekeeper, someone to collect the finish times, help in the canteen, help with signing on, help with the results, and MOST IMPORTANTLY a few people to make some CAKES for the canteen.
The N&DCA TT Series http://www.northamptondca.org.uk/events 
is a great opportunity to experience short and medium distance time trialling on safe courses around our district and enjoy some friendly competition with riders from the association clubs. There are overall and category prizes for juveniles, juniors, ladies, seniors and masters age groups in each event and for a season long points championship open to association club members of which we are one. So far we have three entries from Rocko’s : Julian Freeman, John Dainty and Michael Harvey.
Entering closes next week, 13th March 
https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/race-details/16513

Next Sunday 17th Sep sees the first round of the Leicestershire Cyclocross League, hosted by RFW at Weldon Woodland Park in Corby.  As usual, we'll be be looking for volunteers to marshal the event.  The event runs from 9:00 (with riders warming up), first race at 10:15 through to the last race at 14:00.  Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated, however little.  The race promises to be fast and furious and will definitely be a joy to watch

The trophy rules have been reviewed and tidied for 2017.  The main changes are for CX trophies, otherwise just clarifications.  Many thanks to Norman Abraham for doing this, and Norman Needham for checking them.  The rule, as always, can be found on the Club Rules page.

The date for the annual hill climb competition with our rivals at Kettering CC has been set.  It will start at 10:00 on Sunday 10th September in the usual place, near the bottom of Nevill Holt hill in Drayton.  No change to the format, a timed route up from Drayton, then after an insufficient recovery time, up the same hill from the Medbourne side.

We need as many members as possible to enter this event, as points are awarded to the top 20 finishers across both clubs.  I remember a couple of years ago we lost the trophy simply because we didn't have enough entrants from RFW in the middle of the finishers, meaning that KCC picked up enough cheap points to win.

SO PLEASE PUT THIS DATE IN YOUR CALENDAR NOW AND SUPPORT THE CLUB.

We have a separate page set up for the results of the 2-day road race run on 6th and 7th May - click here.