Easing of Lockdown Week 16, 10th July 2020
Quite early on in the pandemic, when we were deep in lockdown, a BBC news reporter door-stepped an elderly gent. His only human contact was with a charity delivering food for him. ‘It’s just so nice to see someone’ he said. My equivalent is the Amazon delivery guy. Though he’s not my only pal, I
Easing of Lockdown Week 15, 5th July 2020
Seemed to go alright didn’t it? Fancy giving it another go? We’ll run the same routine of staggered start times and different locations, still with a limit of 6 riders per group. I have repeated Niki’s beautifully conceived guidelines from last week at the bottom of this email; please do your utmost to stick to them and
Easing of Lockdown Week 14, 26th June 2020
If you want signs that the lockdown is done, check out the pictures from Bournemouth or Anfield. Let’s hope that this last few months of isolation have not been for nothing. In the mix of human tragedy and economic catastrophe, the distruption to the first half of our cycling year has been a relatively small inconvenience,
Lockdown Week 13, 19th June 2020
Just when you were beginning to think it would never end – it seems we may be able to re-introduce group rides. We were told we would have 2 weeks warning of group activities being back on – but in the event we’ve just had 1 day. We had a really good look at whether
Lockdown Week 12, 12th June 2020
Doesn’t seem to be getting any easier does it. I’ve tried to keep tabs on what we are and aren’t supposed to do in terms of meeting up with other people, but that does mean watching the news and I’m afraid I can only cope with so much. It feels to me as if we’re
Lockdown Week 11, 5th June 2020
No question, it’s been a difficult week at a time when difficult weeks are not in short supply. I’m not sure this email is a platform for making weighty observations about the ills of the world, more a haven of relentless optimism and encouragement to get on your bikes. It is, however, hard to ignore the
Lockdown Week 10, 29th May 2020
The first tentative steps out of lockdown are reasonably clear for us in terms of cycling. Following British Cycling’s mid-week clarification, we still have no group rides, but on the road in ones and twos is fine. We are asking that you don’t wear club kit, not from any sense that we’re trying to hide;
Changes to guidance on riding during Covid-19
We promised to keep checking for the latest guidance on the cycling we can do with the on-going pandemic. As part of their continuing efforts to interpret government regulations and information, British Cycling yesterday updated their guidance. Stephen Crispin, our Race Secretary, has once more gone through this to update the club view. In March
Lockdown Week 9, 22nd May 2020
It did feel good to get out on the road last Saturday, though I noticed that gravity has been left totally unaffected by Coronavirus and was merciless on those extra pounds. That’s the trouble with home working, the proximity to tasty snacks and always being ready for the 6.00pm cocktails. We’re still in that limited
Lockdown Week 8, 15th May 2020
There’s something peculiarly human, maybe even British, about our ability to find things that are funny, touching, inspriational, even when the bombs and bullets are flying. I’ve started a mental checklist of all the good things to have come out of this catastrophe so far. Top of the list, important things like a new-found respect