Beginners' roller ski and intermediate courses start 23/5 - book your place now
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Learn to roller ski on our beginners' course, or improve your skills on our intermediate course
Join our community of cross country skiing enthusiasts based in and around the Capital and in the Cambridge area. Find out about the benefits of joining LRNSC and more about this Club.
Join and learn to roller ski - it's great for fitness and fun, plus it's the best way to prepare for cross country skiing. There are sessions for children as well as tasters, courses, coaching and general training/practice sessions for adults. We also organise roller ski races. And you can cross country ski with us. Plus you can discover cross country ski racing.
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Learn to roller ski on our beginners' course, or improve your skills on our intermediate course
Our next roller ski session is on Sunday 9 May at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit. There'll be a taster and race training group sessions
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Negotiations about the new circuit licensing arrangements continue and it is assumed that in the interim the old licence conditions still apply and we can therefore go ahead with our booking on 18/4. However there is a chance that the local authority will disagree with this view and we will have to cancel at short notice. Any booking for paid-for sessions on that date will therefore be refunded or exchanged for an alternative session should that happen.
Covid rules mean that anyone wishing to attend the session on 18/4 will have to book their place in advance for any of the acitivities on that day as as the overall numbers at the track are still restricted.
As you may know there has been a communication that only cycling events will be able to book Hillingdon Cycle Circuit in future but this is not the final say on the matter.
We have been in discussion with the relevant authorities about our presence there for some months. There was a serious accident between a walker and a cyclist, as well as other incidents on the circuit which you may have heard of. Those in charge are making decisions to try to best serve the community and also run a safe circuit.
Christopher Richards has been heading our campaign and is making good progress to make the points that we are a safe discipline which has involved the local community and is active in the management of the circuit. There are promising signs that these arguments are being listened to.
If members have any specific comments on this matter please email me directly rather than using social media which may prejudice negotiations in this complex matter.
We benefit from and contribute hugely to the circuit and will leave no stone unturned to continue our presence there.
Kwasi Debrah - LRNSC Chair
According to the government's roadmap out of Covid restrictions we should be able to resume organised Club activities in April, assuming the circuit has opened in line with their schedule. Fingers crossed!
If you want to learn to roller ski or improve your skills you can see our proposed calendar and indicate your interest in a taster or course - formal booking will open once the lifting of restrictions has been confirmed.
The actual ski race has been cancelled due to the pandemic so the organisers have introduced a free virtual version Mein Koenig Lauf [open in Chrome or see the translation] which can be done in any outdoor sport between 6 - 28 February over any distance from 1km - 50+km!
Help to celebrate the Club's 40th Anniversary, stay connected in a fun way and achieve some personal goals of your choice. Our 40th Anniversary Challenge is a new initiative that every member can participate in given we can’t get together in our usual ways on snow &/or roller skis, or socially at the moment.
It runs from 1.2-30.11.21 - you simply choose and complete 10 activities from a big choice of active or alternative options during that period, log your achievements and you'll be included in our roll of honour, receive a digital certificate and be entered into the raffle.
Read all about our 40th Anniversary Challenge here and sign up now!
Please see the this table from Snowsport England detailing the latest information effective from 20/12/20.
All our roller ski venues are in Tier 4 where group exercise is not allowed - see this infographic from Sport England.
At the next committee meeting on 10/1/21 we hope that revised restrictions will enable us to confirm Club activities for the first quarter, or at least the next month.
In the meantime stay safe and healthy - Happy New Year!
Interested in taking part in Euroloppets, Worldloppets, or similar series, World Masters Championships or roller ski races? For 2021 the Club is setting up a regular race training group for members with the aim of preparing for and encouraging participation in on-snow and roller ski races as an LRNSC team. Find out more - and tell us you're interested ...
Book now for the remaining places on the Club's annual torchlit Richmond Park roller ski tour on Saturday 12/12 and the final roller ski session of 2020 at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit on 13/12.