Saturday 11 January 2020

Happy New Year!

Eight fabulous ladies met for a 'Christmas' meal last week and took the opportunity to present Teresa with the Jon Crosby Ride Leader Trophy.
Teresa came on her first 5MTF ride in October 2013 and her confidence and enthusiasm for going further and faster developed quickly. She began to develop ride leader skills, often taking up the back marker position on rides - an important element of ride management. She also took to organising her own informal rides with friends - this is actually the whole aim of 5MTF, getting women confident enough to ride of their own accord on rides of their own devising.  
In September 2016 Teresa and Angela completed the Cycling UK Ride Leader course.  Having three registered ride leaders meant we could start arranging Further Faster Fabulous rides, either splitting the regular Saturday ride into faster and not so fast groups, or as standalone rides.
Thanks to Teresa's efforts we have been going from strength to strength as a women-only cycling group, and it was a pleasure to present this award in recognition of her contribution to the expanding success of South Herts CTC women-only cycling.
This is an opportune moment to thank Jon Crosby for all his support and encouragement to Five Miles to Fabulous, not least in teaching me about blogging (and sorting me out when I get in a muddle) and keeping our web-page in good order.