2nd Annual Polar Bear Ride

Hi Everyone
The club is holding the 2nd annual Boxing Day "Polar Bear Ride," cold like the swim, but we would prefer if you were fully clothed for the ride. The ride will leave from the sports center on Vanier drive at 11am on December 26 and will be about 1.5-2hours easy ride depending on how cold it is. Afterwords a stop at a coffee shop to warm up any cold body parts, enjoy a hot chocolate or coffee, and socialize before riding home.
So come on out and escape the Boxing Day shopping maddness, visiting inlaws, and enjoy a easy spin and catch up with your summer riding mates.
Fenders are strongly encouraged if you have them! If you dont you are still more than welcome to come and have a great ride.
Cheers
Doug Merrick

December Minutes

CVCC Executive Meeting

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Attending:

Ray Wagner              Trevor Pritoula

Kent Duncan             Hillary Grant

1.     Society Act- $ 25 required to re-new annual contract.  Hillary to complete form and mail with cheque.

2.     Gaming Grant- $309.63 still in reserve.  Executive approved submission of report and will mail to ministry in near future. Balance to put towards trailer maintenance.

3.     Finances- No new business. Hillary to review the expense of the AGM and provide summary by email for next meeting. To defer 2011 budget until next meeting.  Currently GIC fund serving as reserve but to determine if this is enough or too much so that funds can be re- allocated.

4.      Sponsorship Structure- in the past we have solicited sponsors for the club. Ray proposed different levels of sponsorship with a cycling theme:

yellow-$250+,

green-$150-250,

polka-dot- $50-150,

white-$0-50). 

Different levels based on amount of product/ money donated. 

Ray recommended doing a notice in paper for this past year sponsors (QF, Trail Bicycles, Eat More Sprouts, Airport Service, Black’s Cycle…). To do early in New Year and put together package for soliciting new sponsors (highlighting membership #’s, value to sponsor. Recognition at events, website, trailer, notice in paper, thanking sponsors.

5.     Racer Support- club to review/ create a policy.

In 2010 club budgeted 1000.00- There were 2 award recipients of $150 each, and approx. 200 to travel expenses for junior racers (approx. 500 was still available from 2010- to carry forward to 2011).

For 2011, Budget to be as follows for Racer Support:

Individual Club members- 300.00 will be allocated

Remainder 1200.00 to be allocated to the Junior Program and divided into following categories by a Junior Race/ Member coordinator/ manager. Funds to be allocated to, but not exclusively the following:

·        Coaching Courses/ Qualification

·        Junior Racing Travel Expenses

·        Race Fees

·        Junior Development/ Team Support

·        Equipment Purchases

Anyone seeking support must submit application with proof of expenses to the club executive.

Some concern was brought up with respect to competition from other team sponsors (ie wear club kit or other team kit- deemed club would play more a supporting role to racing versus sponsor.

6.     Club Kit for 25th year anniversary.  Kent to contact Andy regarding designing a 25 year anniversary club jersey/ kit.  Kent recommended continuing with Pactimo to streamline and simplify this.

7.     Race Coordinator- complete list to be determined for 2011. As per AGM, for 2011 to appoint a race director for each event.  Ray proposed to have same schedule as 2010- May, June, July, August, and possible September. Actual dates and racecourses to be determined.

Race Directors thus far:

May- John Van der vleit

June- Steve Grant

Doug has loosely created a manual to help with organizing the race events and can be available for providing insight to race directors.

8.     Awards- Ray proposed a race trophy to have as club property with each year’s winner in different category engraved on it.  To look into cost and design for next meeting.  Individual award/ trophy- glass mug (or version of) will continue to exist.

Ray proposed scoring for series to be changed to include top 4 race results to lessen issues for race director, missing a race so that the final standings are fair.  There was discussion of points being awarded to the Race director to reward member for doing the job and encourage more involvement from others.

9.     Cycle BC Club renewal- Ray to complete and submit.

10.                        Insurance- Ray to review current policy with Directors insurance to determine what this covers and if current liability coverage amount is adequate. Current policy is valid until March, 2011. 

11.                         TT to be deferred to next meeting.

12.                        Budget- Hillary to prepare statement for next meeting to determine a more accurate budget for 2011.

13.                         Incident Reporting- Ray to create a accident report to be in the race director manual to use in event of an incident/ injury

14.                         Monthly Meeting Dates/ Location- 2^nd Tuesday of the Month.  Location and time to be determined in advance by email between executive members and announced to club members in advance.

BC Cyclocross Championships

In the junior women category Amanda Wakeling continues to shine in 2nd place.

Jordan Duncan and Nigel Ellsay round out the junior mens podium.

And Andrew Grant takes a well deserved win after a long race season starting in March of this.

Steve Grant survived the master men 50+, while James and Mark Grant finished 4th and 6th behind their brother Andrew in the U17 MEN.

Andrew Grant Wins U17 Provincial Cyclocross Championships!

2009: Jordan Duncan wins U17 Provincial Cyclocross Championships!
2010: Andrew Grant wins U17 Provincial Cyclocross Championships!
The club knows how to rock!
will posts some pics or details when i get them.

Amanda Wakeling Rocks Cross on the Rocks!

The clubs Amanda Wakeling dominates yet again.
From the "Cross on the Rocks" Vancouver Island Cyclocross series

Open Women (after 6 races)
1st Place: Dawn Anderson
2nd Place: Joele Guynup
3rd Place: Amanda Wakeling

Most Improved Female - Amanda Wakeling. After a great rookie season two years ago, where she dominated the women's beginner category at 13 years old...last year Amanda was 11th in the Open Women for the series. A few DNF's. Sickness and some sub-par results. This year she came back and got stronger towards the end of the season and placed third overall for the series. All at 15 years old. Plus she was the youngest female at National Champs racing the elite women.

Youngest female at nationals!
If your not following Amanda's Blog, do it.
And the canadian cyclist article about cross on the rocks
Sorry for the terrible post title, it was the best that i could come up with.

2010 AGM

Minutes of the 2010 AGM of the Comox Valley Cycle Club, November 3, 2010

Venue : Dove Creek Hall, 6:30-8:30pm, Attendees : 30 persons (25 members)

The AGM was preceded by a fresh made dinner and an awards presentations –

Comox Cup Champions :

‘C’ group – James Grant, ‘B’ group – Sig Isaac, ‘A’ group – John van der Vliet

Time Trial Champions: Men – John van der Vliet Women – Audrey Erlandsen

Bruce Ellis Award – Jordan Duncan

Racer Bursary – Jordan Duncan, Doug Merrick

Volunteer Club Recognition – Peter Schwirtlich, Chuck & Linda Sinclair

Volunteer Draw Prizes – too many people to list

Reports provided by: Race– Doug Merrick, TT– Andrew Brown, Juniors– Kent Duncan

AGM business meeting called to order on or about 8:00pm :

President’s report – Ray Wagner. Highlighted club activities for the year (Comox cup races, TT series, Learn-to-Race clinic, 5th St Miler running club lead-out, TT BBQ) and thanked the many volunteers who helped with their success.

Financial report – Hilary Grant. Income statement and Balance sheet provided noting that reports will be finalized after all dinner/award/AGM expenses are tallied. Discussed that revenue and expenses approximately balanced out for the year.

Election of Officers for 2011 took place with the following results:

President – Ray Wagner Vice-President – Kent Duncan

Treasurer – Hilary Grant Secretary – Trevor Pritoula

TT Co-ord – Andrew Brown Race Co-ord – Vacant

Social Co-ord – Vacant Race Secretary – Vacant

Club President explained the intent to have a separate race director for each event in 2011 as to distribute the heavy workload put upon a single race co-ordinator. Request for volunteers to be race directors will be made in the new year.

Meeting adjourned on or about 8:30pm.

Banquet and AGM

Hi All

CVCC Awards Dinner & AGM for Wednesday Nov 3, 2010 at the Dove Creek Hall starting 6:30pm.

The catered dinner includes fresh made lasagna, caesar salad and bread.

Please bring a salad or a dessert and whatever beverage you wish.

The dinner will be followed by awards and a short AGM with election of Officers.

Hope to see you all there