Macmillan Cancer Support Charity
The table top sale in aid of the Macmillan Cancer Support Charity held at the clubrooms on the day of our promotion of the N&DCA’s 31 mile time trial, August 4th raised a total of £77.39 for this worthwhile charity.
N&DCA Birthday Lunch
This will be on Sunday 16th September 2007, Irthlingborough Day Centre, College Street, Irthlingborough, 12.30 for 1.00 p.m. Details from John Partridge, 45 Gotch Road, Barton Seagrave, KETTERING NN15 6UF. Tel. 01536 722681. E-mail: jpartridge@freenet.co.uk
Club Run Points
Club run points up to 7th August are as follows:
Men: Mick Holliday 61, Steve Cockell 37, Dave Eastham 21, Duncan White18, Harry Clements 17.
Ladies: Debbie Moseley 18, Sue Holliday 12.
Club Barbecue
The club’s annual barbeque will be held on Friday 17th August at 7.30 p.m. at the clubrooms. Contact Steve Cockell on 01327 350842 to book your place.
Date Fixing Meeting
The club will be holding its date fixing meeting on Friday 12th October at 7.30 p.m. at the clubrooms, to set the racing calendar for 2008. This is your chance to have your say over the type of club events we will be running, so come along. All club members are welcome.
2-Day Tour of Bedfordshire
Once again this year’s county Tour was blessed with fine weather. The sun shone both days. Bedfordshire was the fifth of our stated goal of completing the eight counties bordering Northamptonshire.
After meeting at Hanslope we, Trevor Parrish, John Dunkley, Paul Clarke, Harry Clements, David Eastham and your truly, headed off in a north easterly direction towards the area around Kimbolton and Grafham Water where we had our lunch stop. Quiet lanes were then used to follow the county boundary towards Great Barford where we turned west into Bedford for our overnight accommodation.
Next morning we retraced the cycleway we had used the afternoon before as it was the quickest and easiest way out of Bedford. Once at the Cambridgeshire county boundary we headed south through Potton, Langford and Meppershall to Barton le Clay. A late lunch was taken at Stockgrove Country Park. Soon afterward, as we approached Milton Keynes, we started to go our separate ways. A total of 160 miles were covered over the weekend.