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Club Championship 2026

Welland Valley has a thriving time trial championship with a variety of courses and 5, 10 & 25  miles distances with competitors range in age from 12 to 80+. All abilities are welcome with riders on standard road bikes currently make up around 50% of all TT competitors.

At the end of every event there’s tea and cake back at race HQ, and the chance for a catch up with other riders.

Want to know about more about time trials? Click here for some cracking reasons to given time trialling a go

#1 Time Trial Calendar

Sign-up: You can sign-up to Welland Valley TT events on Sign-up Genius.  Round Robin events organised by other Clubs will have their own sign on arrangements, which will be confirmed nearer the time.

Results: You can see results from this year after each event at Welland Valley CC Results here.  Compiled by our results guru Mike Ives, and new and greatly improved for 2026,  this page also shows results and Championship positions going back to 2017.

In the summer months, Welland Valley CC is one of six clubs collaborating in the local ‘Round Robin‘ series  (shaded in green).  For more information on these events, highlighted in green, which are also counting rounds in the Club Championship, click here.

 

The traditional Boxing Day 10 will be held (on 26 December) at 10 am.  Course?  Not sure yet but JD will have a plan before mince pies are in the COOP.

Welland Valley CC Course Information

Want to know a bit more about our courses? Click here for a summary description for each course

#2 Event Price

Entries are payable upon sign-on via Credit or Debit Card only

  • Member*: £5.00 per ride
  • Guest: £6.00 per ride

* Our friends from Rockingham Forest, Kettering CC, Ratae RC, Hinckley CRC and Leicester Forest CC can enter our events for £5

Riders aged under 18 will need to fill in and bring along a printed and signed CTT Parental Consent Form and bring it along to each race.  Emailed copies will not be accepted in 2026.

#3 Club Championship Scoring

WVCC Club Championship is contested across #26 events, and to qualify for entry:

  1. You must be a WVCC first-claim club member (long standing second claim members are eligible to win club trophies up to the age of 18)
  2. You must complete 2x duties listed on the Marshalling Rota
  3. You must complete at least #2 qualifying TTs highlighted in blue (i.e. not 10mile TTs)

When you have met this requirement your score will be based on:

  • Best two (2) scores from TTs highlighted in blue
  • Best nine (9) scores from all other events (either blue, white or green)
  • In each category the fastest rider scores 60, 2nd scores 55, 3rd 51, and then 48, 46, 44, 42, 40, 39, 38, etc.  If positions are tied for an event, points  for those positions are shared amongst the tying riders.  For example,  if two people tie for 1st, they will each receive 57.5 points [=(60+55)/2)]
  • In the event of a league table evens in a points tie the rider with the lowest overall time will win

2026  TT Championship and League Tables 

2026 ‘George Halls Cycle Centre’ TT Leagues (These will be allocated in May)

  • Premier League
  • Division 1
  • Division 2
  • Division 3
  • Division 4

Results and championship standings are compiled using data about first claim member age and gender.  If you do not want your membership data to be used for this purpose, your results cannot be included in Championship standings.  Queries in the first instance to the Membership Secretary, John Welsford)

#4 Rules & Regulations

In the interests of both safety and the smooth running of events, the following specific rules will be rigidly enforced:

  • All riders must wear an approved hard shell helmet
  • All bikes must be fitted with a working rear light
  • All bikes must be fitted with a working front light

Additionally, under penalty of exclusion, no rider shall:

  • When warming up, pass by the start line once the event is under way
  • Perform a U-turn in sight of start or finish
  • Return to the timekeeper to enquire of their time whilst the event is in progress
  • Riders under 16 years of age may be accompanied by an adult, subject to conditions which will be clearly displayed at each race headquarters and on the club website

To be eligible for the Men’s and Women’s Road Bike Club Championships riders must indicate to officials at sign-on that they are riding a road bike and equipment used must adhere to the following:

  • The road bike can possess drop or straight handlebars
  • No tri-bars, clip-on bars or Spinacci bars are allowed
  • No disc wheels
  • Both front & rear wheels must have at least 12 spokes each
  • The maximum rim depth allowed is 90mm
  • Riders must not ride with their forearms resting on the handlebars at any time