JOGLE!

Hi everyone!

Another great charity effort spearheaded by BSC members is under way, and welcomes your support (ie MONEY!).

The charity is Brain Tumour Research, a cause dear to the team's heart, as a couple of their close friends are fighting the condition. Dan Dixon's regular crew member Dave Giles has been fighting one for the past four years, and Matt Gregg another close friend of the lads has been moved into Farleigh Hospice after a similar time fighting his tumour. The more that is ploughed into research the better the chance many others like them will have.
Links. http://www.justgiving.com/rideforbtr

http://www.braintumourresearch.org

http://www.facebook.com/JogleBikeRideForBTR

 The challenge is to cycle from John O'Groats (That's at the top of Scotland, folks!) to Land's End - a distance of 960 miles, and it's generally considered that doing it north to south is harder than the other way due, as I'm sure you all know, to the prevailing South Westerlies.

The group have been training right through the winter and have ridden thousands of miles between them.
The superfit team is led by Tom Wass, and comprises Blackwater SC members Ben Brown, Dan Dixon, Matt Sheppard, and Vince Brown, with friends Kev and Trev Bawden, Dean Jeffers and Steve Pyman all members at Stone SC. The ride takes place from 13 June to 22 June - an average of 96 miles per day, and riding with the posse (in a van) to provide backup, spare tyres, Kit Kats etc is Geoff Wass.

Their target is to raise £10,000, and so far £3,100 has been pledged, from 52 donations.

The BSC and its members are great supporters of a number of Charities, via our social events, auctions, raffles, and in backing individual efforts like Rob and Louise Dean's London Marathon runs last year, which raised over £3,000 for the Headway brain injury research organisation.

Give this one a boost too - donate now!

John Say

I regret to inform members that John Say died peacefully on May 9th .

His funeral will be held in Reading on Friday 24 May and a memorial service will be held on Mersea Island at a later date.

Chris Nichols

Sprites and Cruisers at Half Term

HALF TERM RACE WEEK - TUESDAY 28TH MAY TO FRIDAY 31ST MAY

RACING WILL START AT APPROX 14.00hrs on the 1st Day

Sprites will have 2 races per day

Cruisers will have 1 race per day and their series will be open to all members of BJRC clubs

Start line will be the BSC line.

Sprite courses will be published on the BSC race board.

Cruiser Courses will be announced by radio on channel 37.

For further information please call Sheena Berney or Barry Foulds( 07831 595618)

NB the half term tide times on the BSC race schedule are incorrect - refer to main tide table.