1st Oct @ Hillingdon - prizes for 4ths, youths, women

Any of the VC Meudon 4th cats missing Dunsfold and looking for another opportunity to race might want to try the Redhill promotion 'Cycling Nuts" at Hillingdon on the 1st of October. There are also youth and a women's race.

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/64732/Cycling-Nuts---an-afternoon-of-racing-at-Hillingdon

There's some good prizes on offer - here's the promoter's explanation!:

"Calling all cycling nuts….here’s your chance for glory

Everybody tells you that you’re Cycling Nuts and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But as Cycling Nuts go, where are you on the nutty ladder? Are you just mildly nuts or do you stand on the highest rung, being graded as completely nuts?

Well here’s a good way to find out because now you and your club can once again be officially certified as the biggest load of Cycling Nuts out there.

There are prizes worth a total of £300….so do please come and race.


Can you spell out the details?

Well, yes. On Saturday 1 October there will be youth races at Hillingdon cycle circuit starting at 1.15pm. In the three youngest age groups, every rider will collect points and the club with the most points wins the title of “the biggest load of Cycling Nuts”.

How will the points system work?

Well, if there are 20 riders are in your age category, for example, then the winner gets 20 points while the second-placed finisher gets 19 points and so on all the way down to the one point earned by the rider finishing in 20th place. That means everyone counts. You all pick up points for your club.

If there were 15 riders in the next age category, say, then the points on offer would range from 15 down to 1.

So the more riders we come with, the better our chances?

Exactly.

In all, there will be prize money of £300 for us, but how is it split out?

The £300 is split between £220 for the age groups Under 12, Under 10 and Under 8 leaving the £80 balance for the riders competing in the Under 16 and Under 14 age groups.

OK. How will the £220 be split?

The top three clubs will share in the total:

first: £150
second: £40
third: £30


What is there for the two older categories: U14 and U16?

In the past we found that it was chaotic running all the five age groups at once. We found that splitting riders into groups and running two races made life easier for Steve May and his team of eagle-eyed judges who have to do the totting up.

In the three youngest categories, riders tend to split and finish individually, so that’s not bad to judge.

However the U14 and U16 get tactical and often finish in a packs and that’s why Steve has asked for them to be allocated to different races, so we have U14 in the first race and U16 in the following event…please note they are not both in the second race!!

What do they stand to collect?

A total of £80, split between four individual winners:

winner under-14 boy £20
winner under-14 girl £20
winner under-16 boy £20
winner under-16 girl £20"