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League 2000

League 2000, 17/07/2017

A photo roundup from last night’s extremely warm & sunny League 2000.

We’re not blessed with many evenings as lovely as last night, but regardless of the weather participation this year has been extremely good, averaging over 80 children per week. You can see by the look on some of the smaller ones’ faces just how much they love the event.

Skills Course

Helpers
Rachel from Stockton Wheelers ends up helping almost every week, despite also competing herself. We’re indebted to everyone who helps out at the event.

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Time Trial

Timekeeping
Wheelers’ legendary timekeeper Bill keeps an eagle eye on proceedings. Bill times at League 2000 every week, as well as the CWCC evening series and most of our open events.

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Lewis waiting for his race to begin. The 5 lapper is the last event of the night.

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Races
The last events of the night are the races, ranging from 2 small laps for the youngest up to 5 full laps for the oldest and fastest.


Get yourself along to the next event, we’d love to see you there.

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British Cycling Information Youth

CWCC/BC Youth Race Night 10 July CANCELLED

The CWCC/BC Go-Ride race night for youths is cancelled tonight because of a flooded track. Please pass this news around anyone that you know who might attend.

Thanks.

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British Cycling Special Events Youth

CWCC/BC Summer Time Challenge (Round 1)

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The Cleveland Wheelers/British Cycling “Summertime Challenge” is a series of 4 events taking place over the next couple of months (see calendar for details).
The events consist of a series of age-related races, with skills courses and cycling games taking place on another part of the circuit to keep the children entertained while they wait for their race event. Medals are awarded for the 1 – 2 – 3 in each race category and every competitor goes away with a prize.

Last night was the first round and proved to be very successful with more than 40 children taking part, and with some competitive racing in almost every age group.

The winner in the under 8s was Ewan Whiting (SWCC), 2nd was William Rowan (SWCC) and 3rd was Matthew Best (Manilla).

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The winner in the U10 was Joshua Hewitt (SWCC), 2nd was Daniel Thompson (CWCC) and 3rd was Aiden Colmer (CWCC)

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The winner in the U12 was Isabelle Mayes (CWCC), 2nd Stacey Williams (CWCC) and 3rd Holly Sanderson (CWCC)

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The winner in the U14 was Holly Dixon (CWCC), 2nd Finlay Davies (CWCC) and 3rd Felix Buckley (SWCC)

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Finally, the winner in the U16 was Stephen Bailes (CWCC) followed by Niamh Stinton (CWCC)

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Many thanks to all those children who turned out and made it a great event, and thanks to all those who gave of their time to help organise and run the event.

See you all again on the 10th July.

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Information League 2000

What Is League 2000?

Many people are very familiar with League 2000 but equally there will be a lot who don’t know what it’s all about, so this is by way of explanation and also a photo journal of a typical night at L2K.

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Basically, it’s a kind of stage race held at Prissick over the space of a few hours covering 12 Monday evenings from April to August (roughly, but not exactly, every 2 weeks).
There’s a skills course, a time trial and finally a handicapped road race (your handicap being based on your TT time), with points awarded for each stage to give an overall score on the night. These scores are added up week by week over summer to give an overall league table. Naturally, being open to children aged 4 to 16+, the league is split into age categories.

League 2000 has been running for over 20 years now, bringing pleasure to up to 100 children per session and being the launch pad for many of the region’s cyclists. It would not exist without the dedication of its full-time organisers and their on-the-night helpers and marshals who are drawn mainly from Cleveland Wheelers and the parents of the children taking part, all on a volunteer basis.

Hopefully this post this will encourage those who have children who they feel would benefit from and enjoy the activity to bring them along, and equally to encourage those who can spare a Monday night now and then come along and volunteer.

The photo-journal continues below:

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Club Open Events Time Trials

CWCC 18 Mile TT Results

The results of the TT held on Easter Sunday can be found on CTT website, here.

Many thanks to all those who took part and to all those who helped with organisation, before, during and after the event. Thanks also to The House, Yarm for their continued support of this event.