SEVERAL members of Dursley Road Club were abroad enjoying the Autumn sun this month as they took to the roads on the  Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Dursley RC cyclists embarked on a four day trip to Majorca to test themselves before the season winds down towards the winter.
Majorca is used extensively by leading professional and national teams as a winter training environment so it was good for the local club riders to test themselves over the climbs and roads of the island.
 The seven riders who took part in the trip had very hilly routes planned for three of the four days they were out and about on the roads. 
Climbs such as Lluc, Sa Calobra and Puig Major were tackled by the members.
These type of assents are much longer than climbs found in the UK with Puig Major being the longest climb on the island at an exhausting nine miles in length. 
The weather was generally hot and humid and over 30 degrees which is not the most ideal of riding conditions but far better than torrential rain..
However, on one day, the riders faced a thunderstorm and heavy rain which made descending Sa Calobra treacherous, however there were thankfully no incidents.
In all, the group covered 282 miles over the four days and based themselves in the coastal resort of C’an Picafort. 
The trip was enjoyed by all, even if there were some tired legs at the end.
Meanwhile a local star has also finished her campaign for the summer.
And it turned out that Berkeley's Pfeiffer Georgi, 14, completed her  road season with her best performance this year by winning the  girls’ national 2015 RTTC (Road Time Trial Councils, now also known as CTT, Cycling  Time Trials)  GHS Championship 10 mile time trial. 
Riding  for Giant CC Halo Films, Georgi posted an astonishing time of 22  minutes 49 seconds on the rolling dual carriageway F10B/10 course in  Ware, Hertfordshire.
That gave her an overall place of one minute ahead of her closest rival.
The 10 Mile Time Trial Championship is a national competition for 12 to 16 year olds, named after George Herbert Stancer OBE, a renowned cyclist in the early twentieth century, to whom the prolific growth in the CTC  (Cyclists Touring Club, now known as The National Cycling Charity) is attributed under his presidency from 1920 onwards.
After his death in 1962, a trust fund was established with the aim of  promoting and encouraging participation amongst the young, out of  which the National Schools 10 mile championship was formed and later adopted by the RTTC in 1970.