2010 Squires and Spires News Updates

Still not sure whether we were lucky or unlucky today with the weather?  After being kept awake in a camper van by the rain the night before, I am going to opt for the former.  Of the 700 strong entry field, 570 managed to make the start line, so a big well done to all.  Last riders rolled over the finish line at around 6pm, and the results are now online.  They are sorted alphabetically and we know there are a couple of riders with odd times, so if you can contact us by Thursday we will make any corrections as we make the provisional results final.  We hope you enjoyed our 3rd running of this sportive and after having to change the route at the last minute, we will be looking to make the change permanent in future years with an extension further round the course to make sure we have 80 and 50mile routes.  

With the Volcanic ash disrupting International flights, it meant that our t-shirts arrived at 5.30pm on Saturday night minus about 200 that are currently resident in Amsterdam.  So for those who received their finishers shirt when they finished, we hope you like them and for those who finished but didn't receive their finishers shirt, we will post them to you when they arrive with us.  This won't be until the week beginning 10th May as this week we will be preparing for our next event, the Grendon Triathlon, which is also a World and European Age Group Qualifying event and boasts a very competitive 700 strong field. 

Whilst we received some really good feedback at the event, please let us know your thoughts on an email and if you have any ride experiences then let us know also as this can be really useful when sharing the event with new riders.

And finally, if you like what we are doing with our Cyclosportives, check out our 3rd event on October 9th - Ride 101.  You know you want to!

We are pleased to announce that our online entry fees have now been reduced form 4% to 2.5%.  This will apply to all online transactions.  There were a lucky 600 customers who weren't charged any online entry fees during the first week's launch of the new website (this wasn't intended as a promotion, it was just our mistake!).  We hope you enjoy using the new site, but remember any problems do let us know so we can ensure all is working as it should be.