Thanet Road Club continued its 70th anniversary celebrations with 200km and 110km Audax rides on Saturday 2nd September. Audax is a type of long-distance cycling event, which has its origins in France in the late 19th century. Audax is not a race, and riders of all levels of ability and experience take part, testing their […]
I arrived in Albi a week before the race to get acclimatised and get some much needed hill work in. The week was fairly hectic with the usual fussing, running around making sure I had registered, recced the start area around the Cathedral and also the finish which was at the motor racing circuit. The […]
The latest new entry on the open event calendar this year was the Thanet RC Open 10TT on the Q10/30 course. This being only the second time this year that the course has been used and hopefully not the last as the potential quick times and thankfully dry weather boosted the start field to exactly […]
Due to the adverse weather conditions, we will not run the evening 10 mile time trial at Betteshanger this evening. Please note that the final evening 10 takes place on 6th September, weather permitting. […]
Oliver Robinson and Toby Perry of Thanet Road Club represented the South East Region at the Junior Tour of Wales 2017 over the bank holiday weekend, the finale of the British Cycling Junior Road Series. Stage 1 on Friday 25 August was a 8.37 km individual time trial at Brynmawr on a rolling course with […]
The annual one hour time trial at Betteshanger CP was blessed with some decent weather, with a sunny day and an easterly breeze. For those of you unfamiliar with this event, the onus is put onto the rider to ride for an hour using their own computer, recording the distance covered in 60 minutes. Greatest […]
The latest evening 10 at Betteshanger CP attracted a good field of 47 riders, no doubt the good weather attracting more riders than we have had for some time. It was sunny with a south westerly breeze, and times on the whole were reasonable but not outstanding. It was encouraging to see 12 juniors take […]
The Thanet Platinum 200km & 110km Audax Saturday 2nd September 2017 Two new Audax UK events to celebrate Thanet RC’s 70th anniversary. The 200km is a scenic ride along quiet country lanes through Kent and Sussex, heading down to the south coast at Hastings. The terrain is varied, with one or two challenging hills and […]
Following the disappointing cancellation of the SE Junior road championships on the Saturday in which Thanet RC were the promoting club, two of the clubs junior rides took on the challenge of the senior champs over the very testing 140km Chilham-Molash-Challock circuit finishing up with the 2km assent of White hill. Ollie Robinson got into […]
It was nice to get some better weather at Betteshanger CP for this week’s evening time trial. The sun came out and the wind from the south west was not too bad but still quite fresh. Times were not quite as good as expected, the wind having some effect no doubt. A total of 32 […]