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IT MANAGER’S REPORT
Renewal invitations have been sent by email to all
active Individual Members and Primary Joint
Members. Emails have also been sent to HLMs to
ask them to check their details. If you do not have an
email address a letter should be sent from your group.
In the emails all members have been asked to give
their consent for their VTTA number, group, first
name, last name and date of birth to be shared with
the CTT. This is for the purpose of managing entries
and results in CTT events as a VTTA member. We
hope all members will tick this box in their profile to
give permission.
The Age Records system went live in August. We have
just made some improvements to it to make it easier to
view both current and beaten records, and to search for
records by the first and/or last name of the cyclist. To
access the system, go to the VTTA website where you
will find the National records under the Records tab and
the Group records in the group tabs. You can find a user guide to the system in the
About/Documents section. Note for the East Anglian, Kent, Merseyside, North, North
Midlands, Nottingham and East Midlands, Scotland, South Wales, Wessex tandems and
Yorkshire groups, only records that are, or have been, national records are shown. I hope
that the above mentioned groups will send their files of group records for upload.
We now have 2144 registered users on the VTTA website, a 4% increase on the 2055
reported three months ago. If you have not been to the VTTA website www.vtta.org.uk
and registered, please do so. If you need any help doing this, please contact your group
membership secretary or me.
I completed the 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris race in August, with a time of 79 hours 26
minutes, comfortably within my 90 hour time limit. There were 6374 starters and 1702 non-
finishers/out of time (27% of starters). I got about four hours sleep during the ride. As
usual I stopped for longer than most getting
plenty to eat and drink at the controls every
100km or so. The support from the locals
was fantastic, night or day there would be
people on the streets or beside the roads
cheering you on and offering free food and
drink. I was surprised by how cold it got at
night – several degrees below the weather
forecast where there were temperature
inversions in the valleys. Wind chill on
downhills, especially the long one into Brest,
made it worse. I had arm and leg warmers
but missed winter gloves. On the last night I
was struggling to keep my head up and a
kind lady gave me a neck massage which
got me through to the finish!

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