LP celebrates its 15th birthday London Phoenix celebrated its 15th birthday on 8 Feb at a special event at Look Mum No Hands. Founding member John Mullineaux as well as many current members were present for an evening of cycling chat with The Cycling Podcast journalists Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie. The Podcast […]
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Lucinda & Will raced the Full Gas winter series , round 9, at the Lee Valley Velopark on Saturday 9th January. Their reports are below: Will first: I’ll be honest, I wasn’t that keen on racing, but felt that January is good a time as any to get a kicking and might shock me into […]
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Giro Sardegna 2015 Nine Phoenix members raced the Giro Sardegna last week, a tough 6 day stage race. Bella Leach, Mhairi Mackenzie, Laura Cameron, Aoife Doherty, Petra Dolejsova, Jane Dennyson, Dave Bird, Len Delicaet and James Mackenzie, all placing well in the GC. Highlights included Laura taking 3rd in her age category in the GC. […]
Read MoreBella, Mhairi and Michelle S raced the Essex Giro, here is Bella and Mhairi’s report… DAY 1 With 3 of us getting a rather last minute entry into this event, there wasn’t much time to really think about it. With this, Michelle and John set to work the day before the event and bagged van […]
Read MoreBella, Tamala and Michelle F all took part in event with just under 50 starters of all ages and cats. There were fears that the race would stay together for the duration. Bella’s aim was stay near the front, to 1) stay safe and 2) be near good wheels so if a break went, she […]
Read MoreMichelle S and Mhairi headed out to Guildford last night for the town centre crit. This was a LWCR league race which also took in cobbled section. Mhairi decided that she would try get to the front from the off as it is a tight fast circuit that gets strung out quickly. She got an […]
Read MoreOn Saturday 29th March the London Phoenix ladies kicked off their London Women’s League campaign with round 1 at Hog Hill. It was the first real points race for some of the group and a good chance to test out some of the race skills picked up at the training session held a few weeks […]
Read MoreThis Saturday saw the London Phoenix women in action at Hog Hill for Round 1 of the Women’s Team Series. With a field of 100 riders this was actually the biggest women’s cycle race in the UK ever! It was great to be part of that. There were a few pre-race nerves about the size […]
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