Reading Cycling Club

Sunday April 27th sees another running of our popular Spring Road Race for 3rd and 4th cat riders on the Woodcote/Goring circuit. Like last year, this is run simultaneously as a joint promotion with the AW Cycles E/1/2 Spring Road Race. The entry lists are now attached below.

The event HQ is once again at Woodcote Village Hall, Reading Road, Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Spectators are welcome at the HQ where there will be excellent refreshments, or by the roadside around the circuit. We will need a number of Marshalls, so please contact Colin Bates if you are able to help out with this major club promotion.

The Elite, 1st and 2nd Cat race starts at 9.45am with the 3rd and 4th Cat event off at 10.15am

The Reading race organiser is Colin Bates: 15 Oakley Road, Caversham, READING, RG4 7RL. 0118 9482414

The AW race organiser is Tim Bedingfield: 32 Fallows Road, Padworth, READING, RG7 4GX. 01189 712135

Enter using a BC Entry Form.

The circuit is approx 20km. E/1/2 do 6 laps (120km), 3/4 do 4 laps (80km). Woodcote to Mongewell is a fast sweeping downhill. North Stoke, South Stoke to Goring is rolling open farmland often with a cross-wind. From Goring there is a steep 12% ramp leading to a steady 3%-5% rise to Goring Heath and a rolling road back to the start. HQ & start is in Woodcote Village, the finish is halfway up the rise to Goring Heath.