Provisional Results... And A Big Thank You

....Thanks to Eamonn Deane's very excellent Local Riders, Local Races blog. Go here: http://blog.sportsmassagebournemouth.co.uk/2013/07/gittings-provides-fitting-tribute-to.html for photos and a race write up.

There is another write up here with Velo UK:

http://www.velouk.net/2013/07/29/reportresults-rob-jefferies-memorial/

If it sounds very similar, it's because it was also written by Eamonn.

In the meantime, I'm off to Sweden for a week poking around abandoned military facilities and it only remains for me to offer a HUGE thank you to EVERYONE involved in making the day a success. To everybody who helped on the day, to all the officials, to the commisaires and time keepers, to RoadPeace, to Change Partners Consultancy, to Guy, Jose, Aaron and the young lady who's name I did not catch from the AECC, to Dave Wade and Jurassic Cabs, Ros Spencer for funding a whole race AND helping with the scoring, to Charlie The Bikemonger, to CyclePaths, to Lush Cosmetics (you know who they are) to Adam for helping me come up with the concept to start with, to everyone who retweeted one of my desperate pleas for entries and techno Steve for keeping the music pumping.

Particular thanks go to Gerry Gray and to Graham Hurst for close to a year's worth of advice and guidance. I genuinely couldn't have done it without you, but then you probably already know that.

And finally, a big thank you to all the riders for making it all such an incredible race. As a fan of track racing, I thought the racing was awesome.

See you all next year.

Entry On The Line (EOL) Still Available For The Rob Jefferies Memorial

Entry on the line is still available for the Rob Jefferies Memorial in all categories. The race is on Sunday 28th July, with events starting at 1pm. Sign on is from 11.30, so get down early to ensure one of the remaining places on the start list. The cost is £15 for seniors, £10 for youths.

Just to remind everybody, the race has a £600 prize fund and has categories for Elite (E/1/2/3/4), for club riders (3/4) as well as seperate races for both u16/14 boys and girls. The feature race, the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race is a 25km points race with a total prize fund of £200, including primes for every one of the sprint laps. The support race in the E/1/2/3/4 category, The Alan Spencer Devil has a prize fund of £100.

In the support categories, for 3/4 category riders, the series of events, including a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit and a devil, carries a £90 prize fund. It culminates in the 10km Eddie Beck Memorial race, also a points race and also with prizes offered for each of the sprint laps.

And last but not least comes the junior categories, with seperate races for u16/u14 boys and girls and with a total prize fund of £180 and prizes for the sprint laps of the points race finale. The girls races will be accepting entries for first and second year junior riders as well as seniors up to cat 2.

And if you can't ride, please come along and join in the fun. Spectators are more than welcome. We have music, we have food, we have everything you need for an afternoon spent watching some of the country's top riders in action.

What Do Points Races Make?.... Prizes!

Thanks to our sponsors Charlie The Bikemonger and CyclePaths, we now have, quite literally, a pile of stuff to win. See picture below (foot and dog bed not included).

And it's not just that!

The race has a £700 prize fund, spread through races for Elite (E/1/2/3/4), for club riders (3/4) as well as seperate races for both u16/14 boys and girls. The feature race, the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race is a 25km points race with a total prize fund of £250, including primes for every one of the sprint laps. The support race in the E/1/2/3/4 category, The Alan Spencer Devil, has a prize fund of £100.

In the support categories, for 3/4 category riders, the series of events, including a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit and a devil, carries a £90 prize fund. It culminates in the 10km Eddie Beck Memorial race, also a points race and also with prizes offered for each of the sprint laps (see above).

And last but not least comes the junior categories, with seperate races for u16/u14 boys and girls and with a total prize fund of £180 and prizes for the sprint laps of the points race finale. The girls races will be accepting entries for first and second year junior riders as well as seniors up to cat 2. 

Enter on line here: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

For further details, email me: Gordon Skillen ggrs@sky.com

Three Days Left To Enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial

You have THREE DAYS left to enter the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race.

Look at the kitten:

If you do not enter, you will make the kitten sad.

Do you want to make the kitten sad?

No, so go here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

...and get entering.

Five Days Left To Enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet

There are now FIVE DAYS left to enter the Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet.

 That's five days left to enter the feature event with it's £200 prize fund, we have £100 available for the Alan Spencer Devil-Take-The-Hindmost as well £300 in prize funds for the support races with their own range of prizes to win.

We have races for the elite, national level boys, races for club level boys and girls as well as boys and girls races for youth a's and b's.

We have scratch races, we have roadman's pursuits, we have devils, we have a big finale points race for each tier of racing, each of which will be offering primes on all the sprint laps.

Event details here:
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#summary

Enter HERE:
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#entry

E/1/2/3/4 for the feature event, 3/4 for the support events and U16/U14 for the youths.

The weather's gonna be fantastic. See you there.

Six Days Left To Enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial

You have SIX DAYS left to enter the Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet.

That's six days to enter either the main event, the 3/4s support event, or the u16s event.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

Good. Now get clicking...

The Eddie Beck Memorial

Time is running out to get your entries in for the Eddie Beck Memorial. Entries close on 21st July, leaving slightly under two weeks to go here https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#entry and enter the event marked '3/4'.

This will enter you into a series of races (a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit, a devil take the hindmost and the grand finale points race) and give you the opportunity to win a range of prizes. The final, points, race has a 'prime' for every fifth of the forty laps, meaning that the first across the line will receive a prize every five laps.

But, to win it... you have to be in it! So get online and put your name down. Once again, enter here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting#entry

...all for a very reasonable £15. See you on the start line.

Youth Events For Girls... And The Roadman's Pursuit.

After a flurry of female entries into the Youth events, we can now announce an exclusive, girls only event. There are already a series of 'Roadman's Pursuit' events for the top tier (The Rob Jefferies Memorial) the support events (The Eddie Beck Memorial) and the youth As and Bs.

These involve the top six finishers in the warm up races starting at six equidistant points around the track. On the gun the riders have to go from a standing start and either eliminate the riders ahead of them by catching them, or avoid being eliminated by not being caught. The winner is either the only rider left over the course of  16 laps for seniors and juniors or 8 laps for youths, or the rider with the best time over the full distance.

As mentioned, to qualify for this event you are required to finish in the top 6 of the warm up race and, as mentioned, for youths this will involve separate events for youth a's, youth bs and the top six youth girls of either category.

You can enter here but hurry, only two weeks left:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

The Eddie Beck Memorial

As well as the elite level Rob Jefferies Memorial event, there is the Eddie Beck Memorial series of events. Named after another popular member of the South's friendliest club, the Eddie Beck Memorial comprises of a series of events identical to the 'elite' series of events but aimed toward the club rider.

Consisting of a 20 lap warm up race, a roadman's pursuit for the lucky first six of the warm up, a devil and a 40 lap points race, the events do not count towards and national hard track league points. However, they do all have prizes and the points race - like the headline event - also carries a prime for each of the sprint laps. So that's every fifth of the 40 laps, making a total of eight prizes up for grabs.

This event was dreamt up precisely as an event for riders of local track leagues to target. If you can handle yourself in your local 'b' league, wherever that may be, then put your name down, have a go and see if you can win some cash.

Enter here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting 

...you'll be wanting to click on 'Eddie Beck Memorial', obviously. Pay a very reasonable £15 and if you ride it right, you could have made that back within the first half hour.

More Sponsorship...

Another week, another sponsorship  announcement. This time, it is AECC - the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic - stepping up to provide assistance to both the prize fund and the riders at the event.

The Bournemouth-based AECC is one of the largest chiropractic colleges in Europe and students in their final year are set to work in the colleges own clinic, treating sports injuries and the like. And where better to find a group of people in need of - or soon likely to need - a little physiotherapy than a bike race?

Representatives of the college will be at the track during the event, so don't hesitate to tell them all about your aches and pains.

Check here for further info:

http://www.aecc.ac.uk/clinic/about.aspx

Enter the event here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

V-Sprint To Sponsor The Rob Jeff Mem

A big thank you to on line velodrome shop V-sprint (http://www.v-sprintwheels.com/) who have agreed to through their sponsorship cash into the pot. V-sprint has a huge amount of lovely track-specific items, not to mention some top quality wheels, available. However, if you want one of these rather nice velodrome espresso cup and saucer sets, all you have to do is enter The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet.... and then win the specific race that they are offered as a prize for.

The first, and very much the easiest, stage is to go here, https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting. It's £15 for the 'Rob Jefferies Memorial' tier of events, £15 for the 'Eddie Beck Memorial' series of support events and a very reasonable £10 for the youth a's and b's event.

Rob Jefferies Memorial Revised Provisional Event List

'b' Riders (Eddie Beck Memorial riders) w/up race 20 laps

'a' riders (Rob Jeff Mem) w/up 20 laps

youth w/up 10 laps

top 6 in each go through to...

'b' riders roadman's pursuit 16 laps

'a' riders roadman's pursuit 16 laps

youth a roadman's pursuit 4 laps

youth b roadman's pursuit 4 laps

invitational pursuit Poole Wh vs Brixton Cycles

youth a/b devil

'b' riders devil

The Allan Spencer Devil for 'a' riders

The Rob Jefferies Mini-Memorial 20 laps. Sprints/primes every 4 laps.

The Eddie Beck Memorial Race. 40 laps, sprint/prime every 5 laps.

The Rob Jefferies Memorial Race. 100 laps, sprint/prime every 10 laps.

Entry here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

The Rob Jeff Mem

Hello everybody. This is the website for the Rob Jefferies Memorial, that will be happening at the Bournemouth Cycling Center on July 28th. Updates and news on the event will be appearing here.

The feature race to this event is The Rob Jefferies Memorial Fistful of Tenners 25km Dash For Cash. This is a 100 lap, 25km points race, with points and primes every 10 laps. Finishers in this race will be elidgible for points in the National Hard Track Endurance League.

As well as this is the Allan Spencer Devil, which has a prize fund of £100, as well as a 10 lap warm up race, from which the first 6 finishers will go through to a roadman's pursuit.

There is another series of events for 3rd cat and below riders, with the 10km, 25 lap Eddie Beck Memorial Race as it's main feature - also a points race and also with points and primes every 5 laps. Similary, this program has a devil, 10 lap warm up and 6-up roadman's pursuit. This series of races is meant for "lower catergory" riders, as well as riders in their first season of competition. Seeding for both races is at the organiser's discretion and, please note,  experienced and accredited riders only please! We WILL be checking.

Further to this, there will be races for Youth A & B riders, as soon as we've sorted those out. Stay tuned.

Any further questions, please email me at ggrs@sky.com

Event details and entry are here: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

The Alan Spencer Devil

As well as the headliner Rob Jefferies Memorial Fistful Of Tenners 25km Dash For Cash, we have several support races. There is a 20 lap warm up race, for which the first 6 riders go through to a 6-up 4 km roadman's pursuit.

Then there will be the Allan Spencer Devil Take The Hindmost in honour of Allan Spencer, another late member of the Poole Wheelers. A confirmed trackie and regular at the old track at Poole Park, Ros Spencer and her family thought this a fitting tribute and have put up a £100 prize fund solely for this race.

For anyone who doesn't already know, in a devil (also known as an elimination race), every 2 laps, the last rider across the line is eliminated until there is one single rider remaining. As anyone who was watching Laura Trott in the Olympics knows, it is one of the most exciting track races, a real test of both speed and race craft, as well as a fine addition to the program.

Entries for the race can be made on the British Cycling website here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

RoadPeace

The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet is proud to announce that the event will be raising funds and awareness for the charity http://www.roadpeace.org/. RoadPeace is a charity helping and fighting for the families of victims of road traffic fatalities.

In their own words:

"RoadPeace’s vision is for a world in which:

• road deaths and injuries are no longer treated by the economy as acceptable, by the judicial system as trivial and by society as accidents;
• road crash victims are no longer treated as third class victims, but as people who have undergone a terrible trauma and who therefore need justice, respect for their rights, care, support and acknowledgement of their loss and suffering;
• road danger and the risk of road use will have been reduced to that of other everyday activities, with concurrently improved services and criminal and civil justice for the greatly reduced number of road crash victims."

Here is the proposed schedule

Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet. 28th July

Sign on from Midday.

1. Track warm up (two 10 minute sessions with 5 minute gap between each)

Meeting starts at 1pm

2. Invitation Sprint qualifying (Flying 200m)

3. 'b' riders 20 lap warm up race. Top six to qualify for roadman's pursuit.

4. 'a' riders 20 lap warm up race. Top six to qualify for roadman's pursuit.

 5. Sprint heats.

6. 'b' Roadmans Pursuit 4km

7. 'a' Roadman's pursuit 4km

8. Sprint quaters.

9. Invitational team pursuit. (Probably Poole Wh vs Brixton Cycles)

10. Sprint semis

11. Devil (b string riders)

12. Devil (a string riders)

13. Sprint final

14. b final (Eddie Beck Memorial) 40 lap points race. Sprints every 5 laps. Primes for sprints.

 15. a final (The Rob Jefferies Fistful Of Tenners 25km Dash For Cash)

 

Sounds like fun?

  

Race entry here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

Enter the Rod Jefferies Memorial for 'a' stream events, or the Eddie Beck Trophy for 'b' stream. 'A' is open to anyone who thinks they're up for it, 'B' events are for lower category riders. Rest assured, we WILL be checking for previous track racing experience.