NOT content with just Olympic medals, Dursley Road Club collected an impressive haul of medals at the recent Saddleback Sodbury Sportive run by Members and Friends of the Rotary Club of Chipping Sodbury.

Billed as one of the 16 best British Sportives by Cycling Weekly in 2016, and with a choice of three distances of one hundred, sixty or thirty miles, riders were taken out over the beautiful local countryside in one of the best organised sportives in the country.

For Dursley Road Club, the gold medals should be awarded to Lynne Evans as fastest woman on the sixty mile route, Nigel Burford on the one hundred mile, Debbie Seal and Phil Young on the thirty mile.

Those were just the beginning. Silver for Anthony Dowsing and bronze medals for Moira Woodward, Jan Short, Caroline Wyatt and Kate Browning plus a good showing from Lyn Murray, Lisa Gillooly and Philippa Crocker completed a brilliant day for the DRC competitors.

They battled against a strong headwind most of the day not to mention some infamous hills including Frocester Hill plus some of the roads which will be included in the upcoming Tour of Britain stage in September.

Manned by over seven hundred volunteers, it was refreshing to find that all profits of the event are donated to charity and with over £20,000 being raised in 2015, organisers are confident that 2016 will raise even more.