Cycling Club Awards 2023

We had a successful awards ceremony last Friday at GCHQ, with the winners being awarded their cheap plastic trophies (apart from Malbec who got a tastefully framed can of Recognition - organised by Lee Tandy, and James Connolly who got a hideous Gorilla ). The winners were announced after a review of the year, and watching a montage put together for us by Sean Miller . They were:

Neil Cocklin won the Epic Ride for Bristol-Glasgow-Bristol . 1657km with 27000m of climbing over 159 hours 40 minutes!

Sarah Sprittles won Spirit of Gorilla . From joining earlier this year she has always been a ray of light, throwing herself into all aspects of this weird new sport and club she's now a part of.

David Morton and Rob Anderson were joint winners of the Ride Leader Commitment award - both having led 41 rides so far this year!

Oliver Agar won most embarrassing moment for trashing his bike bit by bit whilst riding a sportive in Flanders. First a spoke, then a crash, and finally snapping his seat post!

Club Achievement award went to Rob Anderson who has raised, with the help of his company Legal & General £3500 of the over £5000 we as a club have raised for our charity of the year - The Menopause Charity.

Pip Mayo won the riders rider award , having improved massively this year.so much so she has ridden the Col de Lautarel, col de Galbier , Col D'Isoard, Col D'Eze, Col de Madone and col de Braus.

and James Connolly won the first Lifetime Achievement Award for setting up this wonderful club.

Also all our wonderful ride leaders got presented with a new limited edition Faster Than Advertised T-shirt designed by Neil Cocklin.