At the LCW AGM held on November 13th the members of the Executive Committee for 2012 was finalized:

Jeff Scott will be taking over the role of Touring Director from John Thompson.  Thanks to John for all of the great routes and all your hard work helping to maintain a strong touring group in the club.  Look for lots of great ideas from Jeff in the future.

Greta Welsh has taken on the role of Social Director.  Her enthusiasm and dedication to the sport is inspiring.  Greta, along with John Thompson, will be representing LCW at the London Bicycle Summit next week.  Watch the new Social Events page for lots of great club activities in the future.

Art Adams will be taking on the newly created role of Director at Large.  Art will be attending the OCA session on Long Term Athlete Development on November 26th.

Lorne Falkenstein will continue in the role of Vice President and will continue to be an integral part of many of the club's activities.

Andrew Botterell will be continuing as the Springbank Director.  Andrew has done a fantastic job organizing the race for the last two years.

Paul Dean has retained the role of Racing Director.  Paul spends many hours every winter in the thankless task of planning events and scoping out new racecourses.  Thanks Paul!

Brad Nicol continues as the Director of Finance and Membership.  His behind-the-scenes work is invaluable to the club.

Bob Steer will continue to act as the Secretary and unofficial photographer.  Check the galleries for lots of his great work.

I have taken over the role of President from Fred Phillips.  Fred has done an excellent job leading the club for the past four years.

Fred will now take the role of Past President and will assist me in the transition.  Thanks for all your hard work Fred!

I will also continue in the role of Webmaster.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our other volunteers on the Race Committee, Touring Committee, and Springbank Committees.  Without our dedicated volunteers none of our activities could take place.  We are always in need of new volunteers, so if you are interested please contact the appropriate director for your area of interest.

Some club members ride all Winter on any Saturday when the weather is not too snowy, icy or cold. You are welcome to join us for a short 60-70 KM ride out into the wind. We usually stop somewhere for a coffee or more. The destination and distances will be decided among the people at the ride. We meet on the steps of Centennial Hall on Wellington St. at 9:00 AM.

Congratulations to this year's winner of the Roger De Roo award for most improved rider: Chris Balestrini.

Congratulations also to Lee Orphan, winner of the Doug DaSilva award for outstanding volunteer service.

The OCA will be holding an informative session on the Canadian Sport for Life Long Term Athlete Development model on November 26th, starting at 10am (and finishing no later than 2pm) at the Cool Brewery in Toronto. CS4L-LTAD is the recently adopted framework for all Canadian sport.

The purpose of this meeting is to introduce the LTAD model and how it is becoming the foundation of OCA and club program development, coaching and event coordination. This meeting will greatly benefit clubs who are interested in athlete development in competitive cycling- especially those clubs currently providing programs for youth or clubs who wish to begin providing youth programming. Club presidents and club coaches are all invited.

You must RSVP if you'd like to attend, as space is limited.

Please reply to operations@ontariocycling.org by Monday, November 21st to let me know if you are coming.

Laura Hagerman

Operations Manager, Ontario Cycling Association

Unofficial congratulations to the 2011 LCW club champions, Chris Balestrini (90.5 points), Rhonda Hall-Couch (Women, 31 points), and Eric MacDonald (U19 Men, 33 points).  Please download and review this year's Excel file with the complete year's results (under "Results" on the Training menu item above) and bring any errors or omissions to Lorne's attention.  Pay special attention to overall results, which you will find by clicking on the purple "Overall" tab on the spreadsheet.  There will be a two week period for omissions or corrections to be brought to my attention, after which time results will become official.

2nd in the overall competition goes to Geoff Power (83 points) whose win in the hill climb allowed him to jump past Carlos Goncalves (75 points).  Silver in the women's division goes to Greta Welsh (30 points), bronze to Emily MacKenzie-Picot (27 points).  U19 riders are required to complete 3 road races, 3 criteriums, and 3 time trials to be eligible for club awards.  All award recipients must be club  members.

Congratulations to this year's LCW hill climb champions: Geoff Power (1:01), Emily MacKenzie-Picot (Women, 1:38), Eric MacDonald (U19 men, 1:27), and Katherine Marentette (U19 women, 2:00).  Full results in the LCW race reports forum.

On behalf of the racing members of the club, I'd like to thank all those who made the 2011 Tuesday and Thursday night racing series such a success. We were lucky to have some terrific racing this year in all categories, and it was always nice to look forward to races that were both competitive and friendly. Particular thanks are owed to Dave Bee (Thursdays, timing) and Gerry Bos (Tuesdays and Thursdays, marshaling).  The active race committee this year was Paul Dean (Director), Lorne Falkenstein, Rhonda Hall-Couch, Jeff Schiller, and Dave Bee.  Alex McCallum, Greta Welsh, and Kerry Gale all did extra work. Without the dedication of the LCW race committee and volunteers there would be no club racing in London. So in addition to congratulating our club champions, be sure to thank members of the race committee when you see them next.

Unofficial congratulations to the 2011 LCW club road race champions, Carlos Goncalves (A, 60 points), Kate Kaikonnin (Women, 9 points), Eric MacDonald (U19 Men, 6 points), and Manny Martins (B, 19 points).  Congratulations also to this year's "B" podium: Ben Dobie (41 points), Domingos Coelho (39 points), and Eric Macdonald (31 points).  Please download and review this year's Excel file with the complete year's results (under "Results" on the Training menu item above) and bring any errors or omissions to Lorne's attention.  Pay special attention to the road race and overall "B" results, which you will find by clicking on the green "RR" tab and the purple "Overall" tab on the spreadsheet.  There will be a two week period for omissions or corrections to be brought to my attention, after which time results will become official.

2nd in the A road race competition goes to Geoff Power (38 points) and 3rd to Chris Balestrini (34 points).  In the women's division, 2nd goes to Rhonda Hall-Couch (6 points) and 3rd to Greta Welsh (5 points).  Standings in both the B road race competition and the B overall competition were very close, with final results coming down to placement in this last race.  In the road race competition, Paul Choquette, Domingos Coelho, and Ben Dobie all ended up with 18 points, just one point back of Manny's winning total.  Paul Dean and Eric MacDonald were right behind with 17 points.  Similarly, in the overall competition, prior to today's race, Ben and Domingos were tied at 36 points each and Eric was but a point back at 35 points.

Our final event for points of the season, the hill climb, will be held on Thursday.  There is very close competition for 2nd and 3rd in the A division, with only 4 points separating the 2nd from the 5th ranked riders.