by Dan Ocallaghan | Apr 29, 2018 | A members view, Race Team, Uncategorized |
Perhaps coming into the busiest racing month in the club calendar this weekend seen two main events being taken on. Houghton 10 TT and Keith Carter Memorial RR. Provisional results from the TT are: Connor Prior (13) 28.26 coming 2nd in Juvenile Age cat. David Nearney...
by Dan Ocallaghan | Apr 27, 2018 | Race Team, Training |
Feb 18 5 members of the Velo race team (VRT) returned from Calpe, Spain after a quality week of endurance training. Based out of the highly recommended AR Hotel Diamanté Beach the team managed in the region of 400 miles and 36000ft of elevation. Snow capped tops and...
by Martin Thomas | Mar 19, 2018 | Coaching, Uncategorized |
Velo Coaching Excellence Recognised The Velo has always had a commitment to widening participation in cycling and the best way to do this is through encouraging the next generation. The Club is affiliated to British Cycling (BC) and has been a BC Go-Ride club for two...
by Barry Marshall | Jan 6, 2018 | Race Team |
A year on a year wiser and new race plans are a hatching. This Sunday 7th Jan the Race boys n’ girls meet up to discuss the forthcoming season. There are a number of target races we wish to explore both home and away as well as discuss February’s trip to...
by Dan Ocallaghan | Jan 6, 2017 | Race Team |
Like most amateur sports clubs there’s no doubt that it’s the competitive element which fuels its members enthusiasm bringing them back to better what they done last year, whether it’s against peers in training or representing the club through competition. The...
by Dan Ocallaghan | Jan 6, 2017 | Race Team |
Race news Whether you look at the last race of 2016, or the first one of a new season the Velo29 winter series kicked off 31.12.16; first race being at Croft Race Circuit, Darlington. After a few suffering man flu type symptoms along with the seasonal over indulgence...
by Des Young | Nov 27, 2016 | CX |
CXNE Round 9 – Herrington For those people not familiar with Cyclocross the sight of hundreds of cyclists in a wet and muddy field may seem a crazy way to spend a Sunday but for some hardy souls this is cycling at its best. “It’s fast, frantic, spectator...
by David Mason | Nov 26, 2016 | CX, Racing Pups |
The things I do for a Happy Meal! The day started great – Mam brought me a bacon sarnie in bed! Dad gave me a pep talk, “go and have fun”, “doesn’t matter if you win or not”‘ etc. But all I heard was “blah, blah,...
by Dan Ocallaghan | Nov 25, 2016 | Race Team |
I think a good place to start is to have a look back over the 2016 season, which brought good results and new faces representing the Velo on the north east race scene. For the more seasoned racers amongst us there was a good showing at some of the major road races...
by Mark Pearson | Feb 8, 2015 | A members view |
A new year has arrived and it got me thinking about to where my Shields Velo journey all began. Around this time last year, early February I believe was when i stumbled upon a Facebook group about saving gypsies green, let’s have a look at what’s going on...
