Races In September pt 2

So where were we? Well we’ve had the Cove Road Race and the Autumn Road Race is on this Sunday 12th, starting at 10.30 and based at Holt football club in… um… Holt. Actually, Holt football club is on the way to Gaunts Common, rather than in Holt itself – HQ is now at Witchampton Village Hall [Mark]. But anyway, once you’ve found the place then its a 90km event on a ‘sporting’ course (don’t bring your deep-section rims) and organised by the Bournemouth Jubilee Wheelers.

Not to be outdone, a week later, on Saturday 18th September the Joob’s arch rivals Bournemouth Arrow run their own event, called, imaginatively, the Bournemouth Arrow Road Race. Where do they get these crazy names from? This is a 90km event, based at Woodlands and using the popular Horton village course, which is a good deal flatter than the one around Holt and doesn’t have any cattle grids or ponys on the course. More details and entry can be found here plus a course map here although its exactly the same as the one we used three times this season already. The race starts at 10.30.

We’re hoping that both of these great clubs have mustered an armada of marshals for their events but that doesn’t mean that we’ll turn any volenteers away.

And come the Sunday 19th September – thats the next day – there’s another race for you over at Applemore in the New Forest. This is run by Sotonia and is the third of their ‘Heath Road Race’ events, running over the beautiful and pretty much pan-flat circuit across a windswept heathland. A chance to practive your ‘spring classics’ style echelons. The event is run over 70km, open to riders up to 2nd cat and starts at 10.30 am. Entry details are here and, sadly, we do not have a course map available but it runs in an anti-clockwise oblong around Beaulieu Heath railway station towards the Motor Museum, taking a sharp left about half a mile short of the museum and running back towards Applemore [We do have a Map actually that’ll be here, Mark]. It’ll make more sense when you’re there. Signing on is at the leisure center, in a room just to the side of the main entrance.

And after that… that’s it. There’s Glenn Longlands 2 dayer in October which is nothing to do with us but still a good race (see the TLI website for details). Then its all hill climbing, track and cyclocross till next spring.