What is the Midweek Cycling Club?

Midweek Cycling Club Inc. puts on the cycling events which other clubs use for training and is the GTA's only road racing development club. Simply put, it is our goal to facilitate your transition from a dreamer to a doer. Midweek organizes four elite races every year, a 26-week long day-a-week criterium series, an equally long learn- to-race program for aspiring road and multi-sport cyclists, and in the autumn a weekly cyclecross clinic/training facility at Centennial Park, Toronto.

Founded in 1995 and incorporated as a not for profit in 2002, Midweek Cycling Club is dedicated to road racing and development of new riders of all ages. The club has a membership of 100+ and regularly attracts over 300 participants to its elite events.

Our weekly events, held between April and December, include:

Two "Learn-to-Race" programs for youth through to adults that draws 50+ aspiring competitors per week
Every Tuesday, the famous Midweek Series, a hotly contested training criterium with turnout of 100+ racers weekly
Ontario's only weekly cyclecross clinics in the autumn

The Midweek Club also organizes several major racing events each year. The most prominent is the CHIN International Picnic Bicycle Race held every July 1 for the past twenty six years at Exhibition Place in Toronto, which Midweek has organized since the mid 1990's. The event, which includes races for men and women (from novice to elite levels), as well as children's and community races, regularly attracts cyclists from as far away as Quebec and New York State. Participation is generally about 300 to 400 riders, with tens of thousands of spectators. It is one of Canada's "must-race" clasics.

Midweek Cycling Club is affiliated with the Ontario Cycling Association, and sanctioned by both the Canadian Cycling Association and the international governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale.

Community 'Test & Try' Races and Provincial Schools Championships

In an effort to expand participation in cyling, we introduced community 'test & try' races at the 2005 CHIN Picnic and have held such races at our criteriums ever since. We have had kids as young as 3 years of age participating. While the grade 8 to 12 participants want more 'serious' racing, we will continue to organize 'everyone wins' fun races as first-experience races. Additional, more formal races will be added for the 8 to 13 age group. The over 13's will be encouraged to participate in the Cadet and Junior O.C.A. race categories.

Midweek held the first ever provincial school cyclecross championships last November 26th. This year we plan to continue that (November 19, 2007) and to add a school's road championship to one of our criteriums this summer.

Midweek Cycling Club Management

Midweek Cycling Club's operations are managed by a board headed by a President and Vice-President, both of whom are commisaires (race officials qualified through the College of Commisaires). They are supported by a wide base of volunteers and members, as well as cooperative relationships with area clubs.

If you would like to get involved, find out how.

For more information, please contact:

Amit Ghosh	Craig Fagan
President	Vice-President
amit.ghosh@gmail.com	cfagan@sympatico.ca

Midweek's Sponsors and Supporters Include:

Amino Vital (Ajinomoto) - makers of sports nutrition products	CHIN International - multicultural radio and television broadcaster
Clearview Marketing Communications	Core Cycle - bicycle dealer and cycling fitting studio
Harris & Harris - law firm	GNC - Canada's largest natural health products retailer
Swiss Stop - Swiss bicycle equipment manufacturer	Project Core - project managers for real estate developments