Cycling Canada and the Alberta Bicycling Association have updated their event status declaration. All events up to June 14 are either cancelled or postponed. Events already scheduled later in the year will have precedence when any decision is made to reschedule an event. This means our May long weekend races are in the very least …
I hope everyone is keeping well at home, yet finding your own way to stay active. You’ve still got permission to train, even outside if the weather cooperates. It’s just that you MUST maintain the 2m physical separation from anyone not living with you. This means despite how nice the weather might get anytime soon, …
Schedules don’t mean anything right now. As optimistic as I’d like to be about our COVID-19 situation here in Alberta, looking at the data from China’s experience tells me our activities will still be restricted until at least mid-May. If we are lucky, and everybody commits to social distancing, in June we will start seeing …
Under the COVID-19 mitigation requirements, MEC has cancelled all use of their community boardrooms. And under these rapidly evolving conditions, it would have been necessary for the club to cancel the meeting anyway. We will try arranging an online method of holding the next meeting at a future date. Please heed all directives being issued …
Our Jakroo online store is ready to take orders with your best pricing for this season: http://shop.jakroo.ca/Velocity-Cycling-Club-2019 To create our “bulk” order and guarantee pricing for a minimum club quantity of 6 total items per clothing style, all orders will be held for processing until 27/3/2020, Midnight, PST. Delivery will then be scheduled for: 17/4/2020. …
March Member Meeting Where: Downtown MEC Community Boardroom, 11904-104 Avenue, Edmonton When: Monday March 23 from 7:00-8:30 PM All club members welcome to attend. If you would like anything in particular added to the agenda, send your request to: president@velocitycyclingclub.ca Reminders Cross Country Ski Night Join us for an all-abilities night of Cross Country …
Cross Country Ski Night Join us for an all-abilities night of Cross Country Skiing on Wednesday, March 11. Meet at Goldbar Park (south side of the river east of 50th Street). We’ll be skiing from 7 to 8:30pm. No club membership required. So, you can even bring a friend or family member if you like. …
Cyclocross World Championships This weekend the 2020 UCI Cyclocross World Championships are in Dübendorf, Switzerland. Velocity’s former head coach and current Canadian National “three-peat” Champ Mike van den Ham will be representing all of our CX dreams of greatness! You should be able to stream all the action with an account at FloBikes.com. It might …
January Club Meeting Welcome to 2020! Our first club update meeting is less than a week away. Where: South Edmonton Commons MEC Community Boardroom, 1624 99 Street, Edmonton When: Tuesday January 7 from 7:00-8:30 PM All club members welcome to attend. If you would like anything in particular added to the agenda, send your request …
December Club Meeting Would you believe we already need to discuss race-hosting plans for next season? The ABA has been framing the 2020 season’s race calendar. We’ll need to discuss what commitments the club should make. Come to our December meeting, and have your say. Where: South Edmonton Commons MEC Community Boardroom, 1624 99 Street, …
Don’t Miss the End-of-Year Dinner and AGM! Friday is your deadline to buy tickets for this Saturday’s celebration of cycling in the McKernan Community Hall. Just before the dinner, we’ll take a short 30 minutes to hold our Annual General Meeting. We have one major item that needs a club vote: adoption of the new …
Flawless Velocity CX Race! Jason Redfern pulled together a great race for the Alberta ‘cross scene, getting top marks from the ABA Commissaires for his efforts. And he couldn’t have done it without all of our club volunteers who set up, tore down and wrangled everyone and everything on race day. And of course racers …