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Sat Jan 3rd 2009

Moderate Saturday afternoon ride from Grove

Leader: Chris Walters	Start Time: 1:00 pm	Start Location: OMH
Description: A short 50km circuit around the Vale for a couple of hours to blow away the cobwebs and warm up a little! The route is here: http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=27493. No particular hills, so no need to worry about icy downhills! We can decide on the day whether we do a tea stop at the end.
Riders: Brian Hipwell Bryan Charleston Chris Walters Janet Charleston John Tranter Lyn Taylor Maurice Bawden Nick Dunton Peter Busby Sorrel Williams Riders = 10 Report: On a bitterly cold, but sunny afternoon, 10 riders eager to sweat out mince pies and Christmas pud set off from Grove. Janet left us at Steventon to go home and thaw out, following a warming dash across Cow Common. As we got north of the A420, I'm not quite sure what Brian was on, but he showed us all a clean pair of heels for much of the way back - I reckon Edith has been putting "rocket fuel" into her mince pies this year By the time we got to Park Lane, the sun was low on the horizon and the temperature dropped pretty noticably. It was a good job we weren't far from home then, as most people were pretty chilled. In all, a nice paced 50km, the ride details are here: http://connect.garmin.com/player/1690666. Well done to everyone for this year's first outing!
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Tue Jan 6th 2009

Turbo Session

Leader: Neil Warner	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. Turbo trainer evenings to be run every Tuesday throughout the winter. Bring your bike, and a turbo trainer if you have one. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements
Riders: Dean Douglas Des Higgs Ginny Henderson Maurice Bawden Neil Warner Paul Sanders Tony Smith Riders = 7 Report:
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Wed Jan 7th 2009

Turbo Session - Social Session

Leader: Chris Walters	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. The purpose of this session will be more leisure-oriented, with more generic turbo exercises allowing participants to tailor their training to their own needs, and have a social too! If you'd like to try turbo training, this is an ideal way - bring along your bike (and turbo if you have one) and cycling gear to DotBike and we'll get you started. We have several extra trainers for loan. We'll be doing a simple session this week to get us back into the groove and scare the mince pies off the midriff! The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements – attendees will be asked to prove membership.
Riders: Andrew Robertson Chris Walters Diane Stuckey John Tranter Kevin Fairs Sorrel Williams Riders = 6 Report:
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Tue Jan 13th 2009

Turbo Session

Leader: Neil Warner	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. Turbo trainer evenings to be run every Tuesday throughout the winter. Bring your bike, and a turbo trainer if you have one. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements
Riders: Dean Douglas Ginny Henderson Maurice Bawden Neil Warner Tony Smith Riders = 5 Report:
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Wed Jan 14th 2009

Turbo Session - Social Session

Leader: Chris Walters	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. The purpose of this session will be more leisure-oriented, with more generic turbo exercises allowing participants to tailor their training to their own needs, and have a social too! If you'd like to try turbo training, this is an ideal way - bring along your bike (and turbo if you have one) and cycling gear to DotBike and we'll get you started. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements – attendees will be asked to prove membership.
Riders: Diane Stuckey Sorrel Williams Riders = 2 Report:
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Sun Jan 18th 2009

Regular Sunday all day ride

Leader: Sorrel Williams	Start Time: 9:30 am	Start Location: WMP
Description: Regular touring ride from Wantage of around 80-100km with a pub stop for lunch. The route will be: Chain Hill, Farnborough, Ilsleys, Stanmore, Beedon, Chieveley, under M4 and right to Winterbourne.Then onto Boxford, turn right onto B4000 for Wickham, Upper Denford, Leverton and lunch at Chilton Foliat - The Wheatsheaf (lunch starts at 12:30,
Riders: Dean Douglas Derek Boutle Des Higgs Ginny Henderson John Tranter Lyn Taylor Neil Warner Sorrel Williams Steven Rogers Riders = 9 Report: Various weather reports for Sunday made for dismal reading. However nine riders turned out and enjoyed a barmy 6 degress with clear skys and a brisk wind. Des volunteered to act as a hare and set off a little early up Chain Hill, due to my role of leading from the rear I don't know if he was caught or not. Ginny and Sorrel departed after cycling the difficult hills, thank you for attending. Due to the weather over night a large amount of debris had been blown or washed onto the road. Just as I said we may be early for the pub stop Des picked up a puncture, (sorry Des my fault) a few miles later Neil fell to the same fate. Having tackled all the difficult hills everyone was ready for lunch. This included Richard who has sole claim to being the only Wantage CTC motorist member. Des decided to miss lunch and pushed on back to Wantage. Most cyclists chose the local brew 6X for its hi-energy and protein value, to help with the return leg. On the re-start there was no time for a gentle warm up,it was a turn right straight up Stag Hill. John found the hills difficult but was weighed down by the large wedge of cheese he had smuggled out of the pub from his ploughmans. The hill down to Ashbury was a welcome sight and with a few miles back to Wantage, riders peeled off and went their own way. Well done and thank you to everyone for making my first "lead ride" a success.
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Tue Jan 20th 2009

Turbo Session

Leader: Neil Warner	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. Turbo trainer evenings to be run every Tuesday throughout the winter. Bring your bike, and a turbo trainer if you have one. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements
Riders: Dean Douglas Des Higgs Ginny Henderson Maurice Bawden Neil Warner Paul Sanders Tony Smith Riders = 7 Report:
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Wed Jan 21st 2009

Turbo Session - Social Session

Leader: Chris Walters	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. The purpose of this session will be more leisure-oriented, with more generic turbo exercises allowing participants to tailor their training to their own needs, and have a social too! If you'd like to try turbo training, this is an ideal way - bring along your bike (and turbo if you have one) and cycling gear to DotBike and we'll get you started. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements – attendees will be asked to prove membership.
Riders: Diane Stuckey Riders = 1 Report:
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Sat Jan 24th 2009

CTC Wantage Christmas Party

Leader: Mavis Rose	Start Time: TBC	Start Location:
Description: Venue-The Plough Eastbury nr Lambourn. 7.30 for 8.00pm start. Excellent menu choice,with allergies catered for.
Riders: Alex Gaberscik Alex Walters Brian Hipwell Carol Altmann Chris Walters David Bridge Edith Hipwell Henk Altmann (deceased) Lorna Swanton Lou Rose Marion Jones Mavis Rose Rex Belcher Steve Swanton Sue King Sue Walters Teresa Belcher Riders = 17 Report: A fantastic evening was had by all, superb food, good company, and lessons from Henk in aeronautical engineering to boot - by the end of the meal everyone had invented their own paper aeroplanes and test flown them A huge thank-you to Mavis for organising the evening.
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Sat Jan 24th 2009

Easy-rider Saturday Ride from Grove.

Leader: Glen Savegar	Start Time: 1:00 pm	Start Location: OMH
Description: Regular Saturday afternoon ride of 45-50km with tea stop. Planned route leaving Old Mill Hall at a gentle pace will be....... Denchworth-West Hanney-Lyford-Charney Bassett-Longworth-Southmoor-West Hanney-East Hanney-Lains Barn-Ardington-West Lockinge-Lark Hill Cycleway-Wantage-OMH. Please note-Tea stop close to rides end.Ardington tea rooms,or possibly Wantage museum. Although unlikely to be required,it is advisable to bring lights in case of a delay whilst on route!
Riders: Allie Beck Chris Walters David Bridge Glen Savegar Henk Altmann (deceased) Jackie Manning Jane Bruffell Janet Charleston Lorna Swanton Mandy Taylor Maurice Bawden Steve Bruffell Steve Swanton Tony Lewis Riders = 14 Report: Ride details here: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/1897856. Well what a fab day it turned out to be!....... 14 set off on a glorious winter afternoon,with the low sun casting it's long shadows across the surrounding countryside. Luckily the flooding on the road between Denchworth and West Hanney had drained away nicely overnight, so there was no need to carry out the optional detour (Plan B anyone?). A gentle flattish route, with a (shock,horror!)hill climb passing Lains Barn, followed by a gentle descent to Smiths tearooms at Ardington. Steve S wisely decided to make the most of the lovely weather, taking in an extra solo loop of the village, joining us back at the tearooms a few minutes later. A final couple of miles to home, zig-zagging our way through Lockinge, where two cockerels residing at the local racing stables signalled their early morning call, despite it being late afternoon!.... A big welcome to Mandy, Allie, and Jackie,and really nice to see Lorna, Jane and Steve B back out on their bikes. Thanks everyone for your company!...... Glen S.
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Tue Jan 27th 2009

Turbo Session

Leader: Neil Warner	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. Turbo trainer evenings to be run every Tuesday throughout the winter. Bring your bike, and a turbo trainer if you have one. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements
Riders: Dean Douglas Des Higgs Ginny Henderson Maurice Bawden Neil Warner Paul Sanders Tony Smith Riders = 7 Report:
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Wed Jan 28th 2009

Turbo Session - Social Session

Leader: Chris Walters	Start Time: 6:15 pm	Start Location: Dotbike, Stanford-in-the-Vale
Description: Join us in Stanford in the Vale. The purpose of this session will be more leisure-oriented, with more generic turbo exercises allowing participants to tailor their training to their own needs, and have a social too! If you'd like to try turbo training, this is an ideal way - bring along your bike (and turbo if you have one) and cycling gear to DotBike and we'll get you started. We have several extra trainers for loan. The venue is at the Dotbike premises - see http://www.dotbike.com/ for details. Note, if you bring your bike on the roof of the car, check the headroom when entering the courtyard. We will be there from 6:15pm, the formal structured session will start at 6:30 prompt (please allow time to set up your bike & trainer) and last for approximately an hour including warm-up and cool-down time. Free tea and coffee and shower facilities afterwards. Note that this session is only available to paid up CTC members due to insurance requirements – attendees will be asked to prove membership.
Riders: Chris Walters Diane Stuckey Kevin Fairs Riders = 3 Report:
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Start Locations: WMP
Wantage Market Place; OMH
Old Mill Hall, Grove

Categories: 1* - Suitable for irregular, social, beginner or family riders, pace will match the slower riders. Not hilly or long. Expect rides up to 3 hours. Gentle exercise.; 2* - Suitable for regular riders who prefer to cover some distance but at a more relaxed pace. Likely to be half-day rides. Solid exercise.; 3* - Suitable for experienced riders, may be hilly, long, quick, or any combination! Likely to be half or full-day rides. Challenging exercise.; 4* - Suitable for athletic riders who can ride safely above the 3* standard. Quick rides for the fit.; More Information

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