Last night I was at Forest Fields Improvement Association, Nottingham, where they held an interactive exhibit at the Youth Consultation Event at Djanogly City Academy with the Wattbikes.
Djanogly City Academy Event
The Forest Fields Improvement Association aims to improve community spirit and community cohesion by organising local events. The association hired 2 Wattbikes to run a challenge for their youngsters and adults to get them interested in the project. The group mainly made up of teenagers and young adults from the local area raced across 200 metres on the Wattbikes, trying to be the fastest. With many participants over the evening, quick times were repeatedly recorded getting as low as 10.78 seconds. The winner motivated by the competition and the vouchers for the local Victoria shopping centre, was a 14-year old who stayed very cool throughout the racing. Well done to him!
Today saw members of the staff at Roehampton, Plymouth, Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol Universities (and some visitors from British Cycling) come together for the first set of training for the delivery of the Wattbike Universities project. The training lasted from 10 to 3, with a two and a half hour practical session including an attempt at a power test, 200m race and 1000m race. After lunch we introduced them to the ranking and we are expecting to see them appearing on the ranking soon with their scores. The rest of the afternoon was spent sharing our ideas for delivery of the project. It is an exiciting project and will see members of Wattbike travelling to all parts of the country to assist the Universities with delivery of their projects.
Thanks to James and Chris from Birmingham, Nigel, Steve and Paul from Nottingham, Bridgette from Roehampton, Helen and Chris from Manchester, Kate from Plymouth and Geoff, Steve and Nicola from British Cycling for coming for the day, and of course to Eddie, Ben and Steve for delivering the course.
