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RACING & TRAINING TIMES. HEFFRON PARK

Heffron Park

Criterium Racing

YEAR ROUND START TIMES Saturdays (Except public holiday weekends) - Juniors start at 2pm. Seniors A, B, C & D grades will start at 3pm. Note: No change of start time during Daylight Saving times - Juniors start at 2pm. Seniors A, B, C & D grades will start at 3pm ALL YEAR ROUND ! You must race in your club uniform, unless entitled as a registered member of a Cycling NSW or Cycling Australian registered or International team, to wear registered team uniform. All male (non junior) registered team members will be required to compete in the A grade event. Riders competing in their registered club uniform may compete in any grade, A, B, C or D, dependant on their ability as accessed by club handicapper. Female registered team members will be allowed to compete in B grade event.

Assistants required to facilitate racing - 2012 Marshal roster NOW PUBLISHED.

ROCKSTAR ON THE MEND

You know, modern medicine is absolutely fantastic. Rocky "Rockstar" Fortuna experienced unbelievable pain, and what he diagnosed as "Frozen Shoulder" on a RBCC Sunday training ride. Well I am happy to announce that after a triple by-pass operation yesterday, they seem to have completely cured his frozen shoulder. Rocky is recovering well and should be happy to receive visitors this weekend (24 May)

Jokes aside, and haven't we all heard it over and over, if you are experiencing pain in your chest, shoulder or arm (especially on the left side), you may be experiencing a heart attack. Get to hospital straight away. No, because you ride a bike 5 or 6 times a week, you are not immune.

Get well soon Rocky.

ROUND 1 OF THE RBCC 2013 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Saturday June 1 Heffron Park. 2pm start. Flying "One Lapper" For program click here. See also "2013 Club C'Ship Program" button at top of page.

RBCC NEW UNIFORM LAUNCH AND SOCIAL GET TOGETHER EVENING

The new RBCC uniform for 2013 to 2015 was successfully launched on Friday evening 12 April at a social get together at Mi Piace in fox Studios. The uniform can be seen here:

Invitation from our major Sponsor, Vantage Freight

Yes, David "Knuckles" Crampton will be racing the Vantage Freight Radical at Eastern Creek this Saturday and Sunday. Now whilst we are sure Dave is going to be unbelievably exciting, just in case we have back up events like Mark Webber taking the Formula 1 Red Bull car around Eastern Creek for a lap record attempt. There are HEAPS of events. Even our own Ray Mather will be taking his Manx Norton around for a hot lap. It really will be an action packed weekend.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TRACK TEAM

Congraltulations to Gavin White, Michael Popplewell, Dave Stevens, Chris Murray and Graeme Allbon. At the recent Masters State Track Championships at Dunc Gray Velodrome, the boys achieved the following results:


Gavin White	Chris Murray	Michael Popplewell	Graeme Allbone	Dave Stevens
Gold - Sprint	Gold - Team Sprint	Gold - Indiv Pursuit	Gold - Scratch race	Bronze - Team Pursuit
Gold - Time Trial	Gold - Time Trial	Gold - Team Sprint	Gold - Points race
Gold - Team Sprint		Bronze - Time Trial	Bronze - Indiv Pursuit
Bronze - Team Pursuit		Bronze - Team Pursuit	Bronze - Team Pursuit
			Bronze - Sprint
			Bronze - Time Trial

Well done guys !

JINDABYNE TRAINING CAMP 2013
	Dates: Friday 25 January 2013 to Monday 28 January 2013 – total of 3 nights (Fri, Sat and Sunday) For Full details: Click here.

PRESENTATION NIGHT CHRISTMAS PARTY (photos click here)

When:	Friday evening 23 Nov 2012
Where:	Paddington RSL
Time:	7pm (for 7.30pm to midnight)
Cost:	$20 per head via tickets (Cost is much more than this but is subsidised by club)
What:	Our annual presentation night, Christmas party function

On Sale now. Ticket sales end Monday 19 November. We have to give final numbers to caterer on the Monday and so there will be no tickets available after that, so BUY NOW & DON'T MISS OUT. Tickets can be purchased at the club house on Saturday. Alternatively you can EFT the money into the club account;

Transfer funds to: Account Name: Randwick Botany Cycling Club

BSB: 062-125

Account No: 00800035

Don't forget to leave your name in the reference field. Example: John Smith x 2. Please also email our Treasurer, and advise Anna that you have paid.

The night is open to ALL, members and guests and is not only for trophy winners. It is a chance to have a Christmas drink together and a nice meal socially.

CHAMPION SYSTEMS CLASSIC FOR CLUBS

Overview: $5000 on offer for riders and prize money for your club as well. Teams are ineligible for these races and competitors must compete in their club jerseys.

Where: Heffron Park Maroubra

When: Sunday 11 Nov 2012

Time: C Grade 1pm

B Grade 2pm

A Grade 3pm

Entry: $10 - Register on the day

Note: Because of this Open meeting, their will be no Saturday afternoon racing on Sat 10 Nov.

For more info, click on the brochure/image on the left.

CONGRATULATIONS ANTOINE GIZARDIN & SANDY MITITELU
	Sandy and Antoine raced recently at the festival of cycling. This was a great event on a very "professional" Criterium style track in front of the Olympic stadium. The boys raced in front of a crowd and with prizes to win…Sandy and Antoine enjoyed it very much. Sandy did very well as he came first on the Boys Under 9 category. This was two laps of the track. Antoine finished second in the Under 13 race. The race was 15 minutes plus 3 laps (around 7 laps in total). It was a close race that came down to a sprint finish between Antoine and 2 other cyclists. Two very happy RBCC juniors left who both won $50! Congratulations guys and keep up the great work.


CONGRATULATIONS SUE HENRY CYCLIST OF THE YEAR
	Congratulations to RBCC's Sue Henry who was recently named NSW Womens Masters 2 Rider of the year. Not totally unexpected given all the races she has won this year like the story below. Keep up the good work Sue.

CONGRATULATIONS RBCC RIDERS AT NSW STATE TITLES

The NSW State Masters racing was held in the Goulburn area from 7-9 September 2012. It started with the Time Trial in Breadalbane on Friday. After leaving a nice sunny Sydney competitors were greeted with howling winds, rain, hail and 4 degrees...not ideal for time trialling! The course was and out and back, 25km in total and in sections it was pretty scary with the wind blowing you across the road! Everyone struggled on the way out into a head cross wind and then flew home with the tail cross! RBCC results:

	WMAS2 - Sue Henry - Gold MMAS4 - Graeme Allbon - Gold MMAS4 - Dave Stevens - Bronze

There were other good performances by: Rick Jordan, Randolph Baral, Chris Thompson, Kevin Charman and Michael Popplewell.

The next day was the criterium racing at the Marulun Driver Training centre. Whilst it is a great venue for racing, the wind again played havoc as did one of the corners which claimed a few scalps during the course of the day! RBCC results:

MMAS2 - Matt Lucas - Bronze

MMAS4 - Graeme Allbon - Silver

WMAS2 - Sue Henry - Gold

Dave Jackson and Craig Hibbard also raced well in their respective divisions.

So lastly came the main event, the Road Race! This time the weather gods were smiling on us and it was a beautiful day in Gunning - the sun was shining and the wind was okay! The course was actually really good - it was an out and back and different divisions did a different number of laps, but by all accounts everyone that I spoke to loved the course! It was a true road course and very undulating, but the roads were good :)

RBCC results were:

	WMAS2 - Sue Henry - Gold MMAS2 - Connor Hughes - Bronze MMAS2 - Matt Lucas - 6th MMAS4 - Graeme Allbon - 8th MMAS5 - Dave Jackson - 13th MMAS6 - Neil Morris - 10th

CONGRATULATIONS GRANT ROE

Yes Grant was awarded this beautiful pokadot Colnago from Ernesto Colnago in Italy for consistently winning the club training hill sprint up Mons Avenue Maroubra.

Ernesto has had his photo taken with Heads of State, Kings, Queens and even the Pope and now with Grant.

Well that's what Rocky told me anyway Grant.

RBCC Club Sponsor Hooper Lane Turbo Studios presents its " RED HOT SIX PACK "

6 months membership for training sessions every Thursday night for the price of 3 months. That's half price. Click on logo to the left for full details.

BIKE BUG'S Long awaited online store

JUST WENT ONLINE Click here.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW STATE CHAMPIONS

Congratulations to all those who competed at Bathurst last weekend but especially to our women who had fantastic results in the NSW Hill Climbing championships. Congratulations to Sarah Roy who won the Elite Womens event, Sue Henry who took out the Masters 2 Womens category and Anna Murray who won the Masters 4 Womens Category. Congratulations girls. Sarah was also first woman home in the Blayney to Bathurst event. For full results of RBCC members in the Blayney to Bathurst, see our Facebook page.

ANZAC DAY TRAINING RIDE

7am Wednesday morning. Randwick gates of Centennial Park. Training ride to Cronulla via the Coluzzi route. For those who want a little further distance there will be the option of continuing on to Kurnell on the return loop home. For the Really Hard men who just must do the Park. Then why not start out with us at 7am and then when we turn to go to Cronulla you can continue on to National Park, Wollongong or wherever else you want to go.

CENTENNIAL PARK CHANGES WILL AFFECT ALL PARK USERS 24/7

Centennial Parklands are proposing radical traffic changes to Centennial Park which they say addresses the blackspots (accident injuries) that they have been experiencing in Centennial Park. The radical proposals include speed humps in the Grand Drive adjacent to the children's cycle track and perhaps even more restrictive is a proposed 24/7, 20kph maximum speed limit. Whilst we are 1000% behind any initiative that seeks to ensure safety for Mothers and toddlers crossing the Grand Drive, we feel that they should not even be crossing it at all. Quite frankly, the kids track is in the wrong place. Cycle Centennial informed Centenial Parklands of this some 10 years ago and even recommended an alternate location which ensured safety for kids and adequate parking and access for parents.

This plan is ill conceived and in a word selfish. To inconvenience all other park users on a 24 hr basis to address the tiny window in terms of overall time when mothers and kids attend the kiddies track. Para- athletes such as hand cyclists will be unable to train in the park at all as I am informed that they are simply incapable, because of their design, to negotiate over speed humps.

Ten years ago, a consortium of user groups, including delegates from many of the Sydney cycling and triathlon clubs, came together to address concerns over the last ill conceived plan by Centennial Parklands which not only proposed speed humps but also a contra flow bike lane. Cycle Centennial successfully demonstrated that their plans were unsafe and many of these unsafe aspects were removed from the traffic management plan. Cycle Centennial has once again convened in relation to the latest proposals and will be once again making submissions to Centennial Parklands in respect of the latest proposed traffic management scheme.

Thank you to all those who have sent in personal submissions to Centennial Parklands. Centennial Parklands advise us that we will be informed of the outcome sometime in May.

Cycle Centennial will keep you up to date with issues: http://cyclecentennial.org/

2012 Club Assistance (marshal) roster NOW PUBLISHED.

Now all we need is a Marshal Co-ordinator. I have changed the name to Club Assistance roster. Marshal roster was a very misleading term. We call on members one Saturday per year in the vast amount of cases to assist in facilitating racing at Heffron. Unfortunately some people turn up 15 mins before racing to perform their "Marshaling" duty. The job is MUCH Bigger than that. We need to ensure that the track is safe and clear of rubbish and debris. We then must deploy all the warning signs and witches hats around the course and all this has to happen BEFORE our Juniors start at 2pm. Club Assistants need to attend and be in the club golf cart at 1.30pm. At the completion of racing all the infrastructure needs to be loaded up and brought back in. Now you don't have to do this personally. You can set up for instance and have your partner do the marshaling component for you whilst you race. You can swap with someone else. There are lots of options. All we want is for you to take responsibility for your rostered day and ensure that the duties are performed. My apologies for the short notice to the first week people, Michael Bogoevski, John Kempler & Peter Craig who are rostered next Saturday.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TRACK TEAM (Again)

Congratulations to our Track Team who competed in the National Masters Championships recently.

Riders: Gavin White, Dave Stevens, Michael Popplewell, Shaun Colley

& Ian Aitkin.

Overall results for rbcc
Gav white - Gold Sprint (Nat Record), Gold TT, Gold Team Sprint, Gold Team Pursuit (nat record)

Dave Stevens - Gold Pursuit (Nat Record), Gold Teams Pursuit (Nat Record), Silver Sprint, Bronze Points. Bronze Team Sprint.

Michael Popplewell - Gold Pursuit, Silver Points Race, Bronze Teams Pursuit

Shaun Colley - Bronze Team Sprint

Ciclismo Italy Tour 2012

RBCC club sponsor, Ciclismo, has over 12 years’ experience of travelling in Europe and Italy, there is no-one better to show you Italy.

Duration: 9 days (8 nights)
Starts: Milan Malpenza airport Thursday 31st of May 2012
Finish: Milan Malpenza airport Friday 8th of June 2012

For full details, click here.

Ciclismo Cycling Tours gives you the chance to experience Italy as no other holiday will. You will have a chance to see race viewing of the Tour of Italy, indulge in the culture with variety of food, wine, coffee, style & everything else this beautiful country has to offer. Not only that but remember you will have a chance to cycle on the best terrain in the world where legendary riders have trained & raced since cycling began. Once you arrive you can relax in the knowledge that you will have an experienced team who have been running trips in Italy and Europe for over 12 years.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TRACK TEAM

Left: Gavin White, Michael Popplewell, Shaun Colley Gold medalists in the Over135 Team Sprint in a time of 49.7 secs.

Overall results for rbcc
Gavin White - Gold sprint (National Record), Gold TT and Gold TS

Michael Popplewell - Gold Pursuit, Gold TS, Silver Sprint & Silver TT

Dave Stevens - Gold Pursuit, Scratch and Points.

Shaun Colley - Bronze Sprint, Gold TS

We wish the boys, including Ian Aitkin, best of luck in the Nationals in 2.5 weeks

UPDATE - JINDABYNE HIGH ALTITUDE TRAINING CAMP. AUSTRALIA DAY LONG WEEKEND 2012

Jindabyne Camp:

CONGRATULATIONS DAVE STEVENS.

Just received information that Dave Stevens has broken the World Masters Hour Record at Dunc Gray Velodrome this date (Sun 11 Dec) Dave averaged over 47 kph for the hour. Exact distance and speed is being calculated. It is an unbelievable accomplishment. Congratulations Dave.

2013 CLUB SPONSORS

Tweets by @rbotcc

A FABULOUS NIGHT

	A Big thrill for everyone when RBCC member Graeme "Brownie" Brown turned up on the evening and via our MC gave us some insights into the professional racing scene. We were very appreciative of Brownie's attendance given that he had to race the following day in Woollongong. Congratulations Brownie on your second place in that race by the way.
For report and more photos of the night, click here.

CONGRATULATIONS GAVIN WHITE & DAVE STEVENS.

	Both Gav & Dave have defended their World championship crowns and won another rainbow jersey each in their respective disciplines. Besides being a current world champion, Dave is the CEO of Brennan IT which is RBCC's major sponsor (You may have noticed it on the front of your jersey) Dave Stevens is once again a dual World Champion in the Masters 40-44yrs, 3000 metre Individual Pursuit and the Points Race. Gavin White is once again Triple World Champion in the Masters 35-39yrs, Kilo Time Trial, Sprint and Team Sprint. Congratulations also to RBCC member Michael Popplewell who took the Bronze medal in the Sprint in his age division.

CONGRATULATIONS NATIONAL MASTERS 2 WOMEN ROAD RACE CHAMPION

Congratulations Sue Henry. Gold in the Road. Silver in the Crit and Silver in the Time Trial at the National Masters Championships in Ballarat Victoria between 5th and 9th October. Well done Sue !!

Thanks to Brad Collis
Editor of The Wheeler magazine for the great photos. See more Masters action at: www.thewheeler.com.au

Please note: We are in the process of making up the Marshal Roster for the rest of the year. If you can assist please contact our Marshal Co-ordinator, Glen Thornton. Track set-up starts at 1.30pm. Can you please ensure that you attend at that time to assist with track set-up.

Track cleaning and preparation is a part of your afternoon marshalling. As I have consistently reminded members, this is OUR club with the emphasis on "OUR" It is not about a select few doing all the work to facilitate racing. It is about us all pitching in to make it work. Please advise our Marshal Co-ordinator EARLY in the week prior to Saturday, that you will be performing your rostered duty.

You will only be called upon for assistance hopefully only 1 day per year to facilitate racing. Don't let your club and your mates down. Don't forget you don't have to do it personally. You can nominate, a friend, relative or swap with a mate. There are plenty of options. All you have to do is accept responsibility for that date and ensure that someone will assist to facilitate the running of the races.

CONGRATULATIONS WORLD CHAMPION DAVE STEVENS

On Friday 11th March at the NSW State Pursuit Championships, Dave Stevens, wearing the rainbow jersey as existing world Masters champion in that event, recorded a 3:27.4 and smashed the existing world record which was owned by Noriyuki Iijima of Japan ( 3.27.826 )

Then on Saturday 26 March Dave had another go at the Qualifying for the Masters Nationals, this time the day was pretty slow, so a super fast time looked unlikely. In the end however, Dave managed a 3:26.0 which was a further 1.4seconds faster than his previous record and 1.8 faster than Noriyuki.

Despite the fact the on Friday the 11th Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Noriyuki phoned though his best wishes prior to the event and also his congratulations afterwards. Now that's sportsmanship. Congratulations Dave.

CONGRATULATIONS RBCC UCI WORLD CHAMPIONS

You may have been wondering how our boys went in the UCI Masters World Championships in Portugal. Well they reckon a picture is worth about 1000 words:

Full Story in News

As incredible as it may seem. If Randwick Botany Cycling Club had been a country, we would have ran 4th overall. (See final medal tally below)

COUNTRY

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

TOTAL

USA

19

18

11

48

Australia

16

10

9

35

Great Britain

14

18

13

45

RBCC

5

1

2

8

Canada

5

1

1

7

France

4

6

4

14

Italy

3

3

4

10

Finland

3

0

0

3

Germany

2

1

3

6

Denmark

2

1

1

4

Japan

1

3

1

5

South Africa

1

2

6

9

Ireland

1

2

3

6

Argentina

1

1

6

8

Trinidad

0

2

0

2

Russia

0

1

2

3

Netherlands

0

1

1

2

Columbia

0

1

0

1

The Randwick Botany Cycling Club is one of the oldest clubs in Australia having been affiliated with the then, Cycling Union, in 1903. In 2003 we celebrated our Centenary year with our Centenary Race day and Mega Dinner party. A strong social theme exists between our considerable members. Year 2003 saw our membership swell beyond 150 members. We have a new major sponsor for 2010, being Brennan IT.

Our membership has exceeded expectations and has approaches 300 members as of late 2010. We are very lucky in that we are one of only a few clubs with our own clubhouse. The clubhouse consists of an administration area, kiosk, showers, toilets and shower facilities. The clubhouse assists in facilitating the great social atmosphere of the club and the great rapport and comradeship between the club members. It is great to sit down after racing amongst friends, enjoying a tea or coffee and a sandwich perhaps, and regaling friends with the highlights of the race. Sometimes such stories seem more exciting than the Tour De France (especially from the story teller's perspective).

The kiosk is well stocked with everything from tea and coffee to soft drinks, sports drinks & ice creams and a range of food from basic confectionary to fresh sandwiches. Every now and then we even put on a barbeque.

The club caters for all types of rider who wishes to pursue the sport of cycling in either a recreational or competive atmosphere. We cater for the social rider through to the serious racer. We conduct training rides, fun events, individual & team time trial events, hill climbs, criterium and road racing events (click here for more details). Racing is conducted on the Heffron Park criterium circuit every Saturday throughout the year in a safe and friendly environment. To ensure your safety we have marshals situated around the course who are in contact via two way radio. Accredited First Aid personnel are on hand every week also.

2010 sees us with a very young but blossoming Junior membership, The club has produced, International professional riders, World and Olympic champions. We have 2 current UCI World Masters track champions in the club.

Why & how can I join Randwick Botany Cycle Club ? For the answer to this question click here.

If you live in and/or are looking for a club in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney to facilitate your training or competition needs then look no further than the Randwick Botany Cycling Club.

RACING

Entry Fees are Free for Juniors and $10 for Seniors..

YEAR ROUND RACING

Racing for juniors commences at 2pm most Saturdays. (sign on no later that 1.45pm) Racing commences at 3pm for A B C & D grades. (sign on no later than 2.45pm).

We recommend that you join a club close to your home or work so that it is not too greater distance from the start of a training ride and also not far to go home after a long ride. Whilst we have plenty of members outside these areas, we recommend that you choose the Randwick Botany Cycling Club if you live and cycle in the Sydney Metropolitan area. If you are looking for a cycling club in Sydney to facilitate your cycling in Sydney and you live in any of the following suburbs then we recommend that you strongly consider becoming a member of the Randwick Botany Cycling Club.

Alexandria
Banksmeadow
Beaconsfield
Bellevue Hill
Bondi
Bondi Beach
Bondi Junction
Botany
Broadway
Bronte
Centennial Park

Chifley
Clovelly

Coogee

Daceyville
Darling Harbour
Darling Island

Darling Point

Redfern
Rose Bay
Darlinghurst
Darlington
Diamond Bay

Double Bay
Dover Heights

Eastgardens
Eastlakes
Edgecliff
Elizabeth Bay

Haymarket

Hillsdale
Kensington
Kingsford
Perouse
Little Bay
Lurline Bay

Malabar
Maroubra
Maroubra Junction
Mascot
Matraville
Moore Park

North Bondi
Paddington

Pagewood
Phillip Bay
Point Piper
Potts Point

Pyrmont
Queens Park
Randwick
Randwick North

Rosebery
Rushcutters Bay

South Coogee

Surry Hills

Sydney

Tamarama
The Rocks
Ultimo

Vaucluse
Waterloo
Watsons Bay
Waverley
Woollahra
Woolloomooloo
Zetland

Phillip Bay

Yarra Bay

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