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Road Racing News 2010http://www.theleagueinternational.com/northmidlands.htmT.L.I. CYCLINGROAD RACING. :- Cuckney - Budby - Carburton. approx 37.5miles.Six massed start road races are being held on Saturday afternoons, 27th March, 24th April, 22nd May, 19th June, 17th July, 14th August 2010. Start time 2-00pm.For more details contact :- Peter Dungworth. tel 0114 236 3229 or email peter@bradway.co.uk-----------------------------------------------------------
The Future of our Sport. The LVRC has approximately 2000 members and currently provides a racing programme for its members of around 120 races in Over the past three years we have seen a slow but steady trend of reducing numbers of races and organisers. The effect of this is that races are sometimes over subscribed well before the closing date and increasing numbers of members are disappointingly having entries returned once fields are full. If this trend continues there is a danger that the LVRC will at best stagnate and in a worst case scenario cease to exist. This letter is therefore being distributed as widely as possible to all interested parties asking them to consider organising a race in 2010. There are many clubs and riders who regularly ride the races but who put nothing back into the sport. Some of these clubs have large memberships and are in strong financial health. If members of a particular club feel they are too small to organise a race then there is nothing to stop them joining with another club to combine resources and and put a race on. It could be a road race, a closed circuit race, time trial, cyclo cross or mountain bike. One of the great strengths of the LVRC is that it has an effective support infrastructure for organising races accessed either on the web site under the 'Racing Information' button on the home page or by talking to the Exec committee members or numerous other members with experience who will be willing to provide advice and help. The LVRC is not a bureaucratic organisation and has gone to great lengths to make race organisation as straight forward, cost effective and safe as possible. If costs are an issue locally then the LVRC will provide financial support for organisers. If we do not see and improved position for 2010 then we feel we will have no alternative but to recommend to organisers that certain clubs and their members who are not contributing are put to the bottom of the lists, or even excluded, when race fields are being planned. The Executive team of the LVRC therefore requests that all members and clubs who currently do not contribute to the race programme seriously consider promoting just one race in 2010 for the long term good of our sport. Yours in sport Don Parry LVRC Chairman and the The LVRC Executive Committee A Saturday Road Race League is being planned for 2010, If anyone is interested here are the details so far.
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