Bendigo Triathelon Club a growing Community

The club currently is proud of over 140 athletes having competed in the last 12 months boosting membership across all age barriers with members in their 60’s still competing regularly right down to under 10’s. The clubs knows that without the valued support of local sponsors that this growth would not have been possible.

The club high lights has been over the last 20 years “Seeing athletes of all abilities grow over the years, some to elite level while others have had great longevity and are the motivators behind introducing new members to club level and beyond”.

Le Tour De France comes alive each week in Bendigo

There seems more and more that the avid TV sports watching community is being joined by the many “would be” world travellers to the view the breathe taking scenery and basic historical commentary that now accompanies the live coverage daily.

We are amazed at the kaleidoscope of team colours in skin tight lycra on bodies of all shapes and sizes where legs are not measured in muscle size but by the pain they can endure, apply and inflict to other riders on the road. Like the old saying “it is not to the size of the dog that determines the fight but the size of the fight in the dog”.

Castlemaine Cycling Club 30 years young and virbrant

There were a few riders getting together to train over a period and they met one day to discuss starting a club, and a meeting was planned.  The Club was formed with a Public Meeting on 18th May 1978. There were 18 people present. Mr Barry Thornbury took the Chair and was voted in as the inaugural President.  There was a  motion: That a Cycling Club be formed and it be named the Castlemaine Amateur Cycling Club. Moved Mr A Morrow, 2nd Mr S Robins and Carried.

There were 18 present on the first night and the first race meeting was set for the 27th May 1978. The current membership is 62 and rising, with a strong component of juniors in the club.