The first day of March and Spring is here, hopefully. Days have been getting noticeably longer and the dark evenings will recede even more over the coming few weeks as we look forward to the changing of the clocks on 31st March, which also happens to be Easter Sunday.
As we are now into March, we are also into a new subscription year for HWCC, which runs from 1st March until the end of February. Now the bad news is that all members, Full, Beginner & Overseas, need to renew their membership and please pay their subscriptions. The good news is that we are holding the membership fees at the same level as last year, £30 Full Membership, £10 Beginner Membership & £10 Overseas Membership for the period up until the end of February 2025. Once again, Full Membership works out to less than the price of a coffee per month!
Our club rides during the colder seasons have been well supported and it is amazing to see so many members now wearing club kit. We have been limiting the distances of our club rides in the last few months, no-one wants to be out in the cold for hours on end. As the days get longer we will look at re-introducing longer rides and the greater distances will be useful as training for some of our upcoming events and Audax rides. As previously mentioned, we will rotate these with shorter distance rides, so that there will be something for everyone each month. We will continue to host New Member Induction Rides in Richmond Park for those wishing to join as Full Members and on alternate Saturday's we will host our Beginners Sessions. We have been fortunate to welcome some new members to the club over the Winter months, but we hope to meet many more of you as the weather improves and the temperatures increase.
Over the course of the Winter, our Wednesday evening Zwift rides have proved popular with our club members that use the online training platform and we recently had our first Guest Rider join us for a Zwift session. We were fortunate to be joined by Dan Richards, otherwise known as The One Armed Wonder on Instagram. We will be looking to invite more guest riders to join us, so keep an eye on our Meetup events. We intend to continue these virtual rides but will probably move the events to Tuesday or Thursday evenings once the clocks change and lighter nights mean we can resume our Wednesday night pretzel rides around Richmond Park.
Interested in joining us? Visit our Meetup we look forward to meeting you soon. In the meantime you can use some of the links at the top of the page to view our social media channels.
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