ACC Sportive Thingie

[Snoop Doug]

How about this then....

Could we do an ACC Summer Sportive? Course we could! I think this has been talked about before? We have a lot of riders who do these things so I hope we could get a small team together to plan/test a route and help organise quite easily (blindly optimistic ). It would help raise the profile of the club and introduce more people to riding on the road.

I think this would take some organising so would like to run the event in 2010. Have talked to the BPA and they reckon we could get a couple of paralympian medallists along if we were to do this as an awareness/fund raiser too. This could be great fun, a great pr opportunity for the club and a good way to support the run up to 2012.

Guessing we'd plan a pretty straightforward route for newcomers, maybe a mid range and a nutcase one too? They'd all need to be in the same area ( ).

A few people have commented to me recently that our sportive dept doesn't get the recognition it deserves. No arguments from me - you gets out what you puts in mind. So - I'd like to ask a few people to put their hands up to form a team to plan this please? Ideally I'd like to work with people who have experience in this area of cycling. I'm happy to coordinate stuff generally but route planning, feed stations etc I ain't got a clue.

Who's up for it then?

Snoop

[thePinkDreamMachine]

Yes about time I got involved. count me in.

I don’t have experience in this area of cycling, but i do for running and i did once date a race Organizer.

I couldn't work out if his hair loss was due to organizing the races or dating me.. humm

Chloe

[-Adam-]

[quote="Snoop Doug"]I think this has been talked about before?

[quote="-Adam-"][quote="Snoop Doug"]I think this has been talked about before?

[-Adam-]

Then you misunderstood Dombo.

Yes there were costs involved in the London to Paris event. But neither of us were expecting them to be covered by any potnetial revenue a sportive would have brought in. Just a help towards the larger sum we had to raise in actual sponsorship, cash which was going direct to charity.

But as Alan M pointed out at the time, you had two of the youngest riders in the club wishing to promote an event, and we were almost told where to go.

[quote="-Adam-"][quote="Snoop Doug"]I think this has been talked about before?

[Dombo]

[quote="-Adam-"]Then you misunderstood Dombo.

[Jon H]

[quote="Dombo"]Dragon last year was almost like a 100-mile time trial.

[thePinkDreamMachine]

I think it could be a awesome event, and we should think about it being charitably aimed,

also as a thought... are we at all linked to Rotary club, often known as the 'round table'?

well they support lots of charities and trust of varying types, (they donated a £1000 pounds to the school in Nepal my brother taught at in his gap year) and to fund this every year put on or support lots of events in their own little areas.. such as in Devon (sorry to bang on about home) but they support many half marathons/ 10K and with this they provide huge amounts of marshals and support, in terms of vans and wives makeing cakes ect, also if we are linked to a charity we can approach companies for free things, such as bottled water ect or free Pasties for all finishers, (sorry that’s the south west in me coning out)


Another thing to consider is the 'go ride' program, as we are now linked to many schools and PTAs in our local area. Which could provide the facilities and parking, or for small schools could even link it to a schools summer fair and have the start a finish there?

All things to consider

I'm certainly up for making lots of cakes, dealing with rotary clubs, local councils, schools, website admissions.

so i'm with snoop.. lets get some optimism, some constructive input and positivity going


chloe

note: There are 6 rotary clubs in our Surrey alone -
http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/SiteTo ... rds=surrey

Ewell -
Weybridge & Byfleet
Walton-on-Thames
Ripley & Send
Egham
Banstead

[carl f]

Great idea snoop
Count me in
I will be up for searching for a 'nutcase' route this summer,lots of hills please
A route taking in some of the south downs would be great
Carl

[-Adam-]

You make a fair point Snoop. At the time, and reading the posts back now, that could well be how it seems. I'm not anti the idea, I just think that like that other thread has pointed out, ACC has a few problems that perhaps would be better fixed before the undertaking of a sportif onto the calendar.

So if your asking me if I'll help? Well, I can gladly assist route planning, perhaps even to put up signage (only if the signs will fit in my messenger bag mind you!). But realistically I cannot offer anymore. I will have obligations to fulfil for my first claim team this year, and they come... first.

[Snoop Doug]

rotary club we are not connected to. Go ride Huw has done some sterling work in that dept. could be a useful feature on the day.

The idea of helping support disabled sport has been floated for a bit now hence my approach to the BPA. I don't want to major on the charity aspect but I think if we did something that benefitted local grass roots disabled sport and the BPA that could be a good mix.

What is important?

Loads of ACC people trying this kind of ride.
Loads of ACC help and possibly others, interesting suggestions Chloe
Loads of newbies (if we had an intro/mid/hardcore set up) I wonder if we could start somewhere like Kenley Aerodrome we could do some very junior fun stuff too.
Awareness raising/PR opportunities
fund raising

Sorry - getting carried away . Cheers for sticking your hand up carl. If we could have a couple more volunteers then I think we should arrange to meet, kick this stuff around and report back.

Snoop

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="-Adam-"]You make a fair point Snoop. At the time, and reading the posts back now, that could well be how it seems. I'm not anti the idea, I just think that like that other thread has pointed out, ACC has a few problems that perhaps would be better fixed before the undertaking of a sportif onto the calendar.

So if your asking me if I'll help? Well, I can gladly assist route planning, perhaps even to put up signage (only if the signs will fit in my messenger bag mind you!). But realistically I cannot offer anymore. I will have obligations to fulfil for my first claim team this year, and they come... first.

[Michelle]

Yes I can help too.

Really we only need signage, some people to do the food stations, someone to buzz round the circuits as necessary - support, and a big tent for signing on.

Perhaps some marshalls at particularly nasty junctions? Or we can make sure we don't have any nasty junctions?

What else do we need......come on, pipe up!

I like Snoops idea of helping local disabled charity/ies.

[Andrew G]

[quote="Michelle"]Yes I can help too.

Really we only need signage, some people to do the food stations, someone to buzz round the circuits as necessary - support, and a big tent for signing on.

Perhaps some marshalls at particularly nasty junctions? Or we can make sure we don't have any nasty junctions?

What else do we need......come on, pipe up!