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Association of British Cycling Coaches
Pedal Power Conference 2014
This year the annual Pedal Power Conference will take place on Sunday 16th November. The venue for the event is Ramada Hotel, Butts Road, Coventry CV1 3GG. The hotel has dedicated parking which is free to delegates and is a short walk from the railway station. As part of the package we have access to discounted room rates, which can be taken with or without breakfast. You can book by telephoning the hotel on 024 7623 8110, quoting “ABCC Conference”.
The cost for the conference will remain at £30.00. This includes a buffet lunch, tea, coffee, soft drinks and biscuits
A diverse programme will be provided. This year the presentations will be given by:
John Kelly
John is a senior lecturer at Chichester University and an experienced exercise physiologist who has worked with a range of groups from cardiac patients to elite level athletes. After leaving the Armed Forces in 1992, he completed his degree in Exercise Physiology at the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education and then went on to gain an MSc in Exercise and Nutrition Science from the University of Liverpool. The next seven years were spent working in cardiac rehabilitation in the North West of England before taking a post, teaching Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Chichester.
John is a keen athlete who regularly competes in endurance events. Each year he completes several long distance mountain bike challenges and participates in 24 hour mountain bike races. He has cycled most of the long distance bridleways in the UK and several in Europe and the USA, including the Great Divide, which is a 2,500 mile off road wilderness ride from Canada to the Mexican border. He is also a qualified mountain bike instructor.
His research interests include the assessment of autonomic function and the effects of prolonged endurance exercise.
Adam Topham
Adam is a renowned time triallist, having won the Best British All Rounder title in both 2012 and 2013. In his work life Adam is a highly experienced IT professional and manager.
Outside work Adam’s time trialling exploits will be known to many. Less well known will be his often controversial training methods. He has published an instructional book ‘Time-Trialling. Fly Through The Pain Barrier’. Which explains his ideas about cycling and routes to success.
Guy Kesteven
Guy Kesteven has been a professional bike tester for 18 years working for all the major mountain and road bike magazines and global websites. He is based in Yorkshire just a few hundred metres from this years Tour De France Grand Depart route but has ridden all the significant bikes of the last twenty years all around the world.
The recently published “1001 bikes to dream of riding before you die” turns the unparalleled experience and specialist knowledge of Guy and his team into a mammoth encyclopaedia. Covering the whole history of bikes from wooden striders to carbon fibres it’s loaded with fantastic stories, riding legends and the technological tapestry that binds them all together.
Pro Ride Guides who are Britain’s pre-eminent mountain bike coaching organisation will be attending. Giving an up to the minute presentation on off road riding. For over 10 years they have been coaching and advising elite level racers. In addition to coaching riders they run their own enduro team sponsored by Specialised. They also organise the internationally recognised ‘Ard Rock Enduro, voted event of the year by Singletrack magazine in 2013.
Mark Jones
“Riding through Glue. The performance leveller”.
Completed a degree in physics microelectronics and computing. Presently working as an electronics engineer (since 1999) for Oxford University on the atlas detector which is located at CERN. Head of electronics workshop since 2009.
Returned to racing in 2002 after 13 years away from the sport and slowly chipped away at personal best times at 10 miles over the next 8 years as many amateurs do.
Purchased a power meter in 2010 and realised that with a measured metric such as power and a background in physics there was much that could be done with position to optimise performance.
Having recorded over 15 19 minute ten mile TT`s on ~ 300 Watts (With the most significant being 19:10 off 294w) I believe that aerodynamics is a much over looked subject by riders and coaches alike and there is plenty to be gained.
To book a place at this exciting event, please follow the link below
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If you would like more details about the event, or wish to book offline, please contact the Administrator, 01822 834424 or mark.gorman@abcc.co.uk
The day will also include The Association AGM. If you have any nominations for Committee positions or items for discussion please forward them to the Administrator.
