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On Tour in Ireland

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:54:20

Connor Pass

12 members of the Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team, visited County Derry for a cycling holiday, amongst the challenging hills of the Dingle Peninsula.

The first day, saw quite a few members get drenched, climbing the 6km climb of Connor Pass. The next day, was better weather as we headed around the bay to Cahersiveen.

The final day involved cycling through the deserted roads on the inland to the Black Valley hostel. The scenery was beautiful and the cycling much fun.

At top of Connor Pass

Rush Hour Ireland

Warning Cows in Road. - Cows blocking the road force Tejvan to take a detour

Hill Climb Championships 2007

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:58:09

2007 has been a quiet year. I won a couple of races early season, but, did little racing after April.

The last race of the season is the national hill climb championship. This year it was held at Cheddar's gorge in Somerset. I finished 7th in a time of 7.14. The race was won by James Dobbin Arctic Shorter RT, 6.51

Other photos at Tejvan Blog - nat. Hill Climb

Tejvan Pettinger Sri Chinmoy CT

Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team 2007

Tejvan Pettinger — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:32:58

In the UK the racing season has begun.

R.Pettinger has won 2 early season hilly TT's. see Richard's Cycling Blog

Ed Silverton is in good form after several years struggling through injury. He makes a long anticipate comeback next weekend in a 10 mile TT

Triathalete Dave Johnson from Cambridge has spent alot of time on the bike this winter. In addition to doing triathlons he anticipates racing on his bike more.

In April there will be a training week for some training amongst the hills of New York.

National Championships

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:53:25

: Peak Hill the lower part of the hill climb it got steeper round the corner.

The last major competitive race of the UK time trialling season was the National Hill Climb championship in Devon. It was on the hill Peak Hill, starting at the bottom by the sea before reaching a max gradient of 20% at the top.

I finished 7th out of a field of about 150.

More at my other blog here: hill climb championships

My Results from 2006

Richard at Start of hill climb

Muddy Cyclo Cross Race

Tejvan Pettinger — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:30:16

Making a comeback after injury Ed Silverton of Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team competed in the Oxonian CC cyclo cross event on 30th September.

A torrential downpour for the first 30 minutes of the race caused the track to become extremely muddy.

Ed at the finish line. (The sun came out as the race stopped)

Ed climbing up a muddy bank.

Sri Chinmoy CT Results 2006

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:25:30

Race Results 2006
R.Pettinger came 2nd in 2 races at Weekend
10 mile TT Bentley - 21.00 Charlotteville CC
25 mile TT Marlow - Reading - 55.55 West London CA

Training Weekend in Lake District

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:14:55

Richard Pettinger

One of Sri Chinmoy Cycling teams first training camps was a success with me and Dave.

Saturday I cycled both ways over Kirkstone Pass. It is one of the better ascents and descents being not ridiculously steep like hardknot pass . The problem is getting slowed down by cars on the way down. I cycled about 70 miles also visiting Haweswater.

Sunday I was joined by Dave we took in the lakes of Windemere and Conistone. Weather was good and I took some pictures.

Dave Johnson

This is a picture from near Rydal Water

Dave going up a hill near Ambleside

Richard in practise for the hill climb season

On Sunday afternoon we went to a concert in a cave given by our friends who were also staying in the Lake District. The group is called Ananda and was seen by about 40 people. After concert I called Andy Sherwood who had just completed 415 miles in the national 24 hour championships v. impressive.
NIk Gardener the winner completed 505 miles....

This is from Rydal Water