Apologies to those people who came down for the session last night. Goslings double booking with the football was totally out of our hands.

It was a pity as the track was the driest that it has been for a while.

Never mind better luck next week... 

This years AGM will take place at 7.30 pm Monday 6th February in the Collingwood Suite at Gosling Sports Park.
 
See here for the agenda, here for the 2011 minutes, here for the club rules with some proposed changes plus here for additional rule changes. Please print these and bring them with you. 

We are expecting there to be vacancies on the Committee for 2012.  If you would be interested in joining the Committee, please contact Peter Waghorn to discuss what is involved.
 

This is a reminder that tickets are still available for the Club Prize presentation and Buffet on Saturday February 11th in the Collingwood Suite at Gosling Sports Park at 1-00pm. Tickets cost  £11 (£7 for under 14’s) are available from Peter Waghorn, Francis Gallacher and Andy Evans. 

The Club Cyclo-cross Championship will be held at GSP in the morning with races for Youth U14/U16, U12’s and Junior/Senior. U14/U16 races will start at 09.30, U12’s at 10.30 and Junior/Senior at 11.00am.
 
The Prize Presentation will celebrate another good year for the club. See here for list of prize winners for 2011. The winners of those trophys where no name has been assigned will be announced on the day.

Peter Waghorn 

After the challenge of two years in the Junior ranks, Welwyns Tom Gallagher talent has been recruited by a new Professional UK Based Cycling Team - Metaltek–Scott.

A number of Welwyn riders took part in major track events during October - the National Track Championships and the World Masters Track Championships - both at Manchester.

At the Nationals, Laura Trott took silver in the individual pursuit and points race and a bronze in the Senior 500m TT. Vicki
Williamson, still a Junior, took bronze in the sprint and was 6th in the Senior 500m TT.

A well drilled Welwyn Junior team of Josh Maynard, George Farrell, George Farrell and Alex Anderson, took part in the team pursuit. Although their time (4:44:586) was slower than many it was still a club record. Josh and Alex also took part in the Junior Madison but retired at half-distance (60 of 120 laps!).

U14 Joe Fry qualified for the Boys Youth madison final with partner Jack Hoyle of Team Terminator where they came 9th. Four teams made up of Welwyn girls rode in the Girls Youth Madison with Lucy Harper (WW) and Abigail Dentus (Palmer Park) finishing best in 6th place in front of Bethany Hayward (WW) and Keira McVitty (Kings Cliffe Flyers) (7th), Kim English (WW) and Emily Barnes (Rapha Condor) (10th) and Chloe Evans (WW) and Emily Haycox (Maindy Flyers) (11th).

In the same weekend Joe Fry, Kim English and Bethany Hayward were selected for the National Talent Team squad.

Claire Newland took gold and defended her title in her age group in the individual pursuit at the World Masters. Her qualification time of 2.32.347 was less than a second slower than the world best ever. More details here .

Late on this month, Laura Trott has been selected for the womens endurance squad for the European Track Championships that take place 21 to 23 October in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.