Members help at Cycletta

Volunteers from Girlguiding Cheshire Border and Girlguiding Cheshire Forest have assisted at a female-only cycling event which was visited by gold medal-winning Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton.

The Girlguiding members helped with marshalling, registration and other tasks for Cycletta Cheshire, for which 800 participants rode around a course at Tatton Park, Cheshire. 

‘It had been fun to be involved and see all the different women achieving a 25km or 40km course and especially good to meet Victoria Pendleton,’ said Ellie Hodgson, a Ranger with Congleton West and Young Leader with 3rd Congleton Brownies.

The Girlguiding Cheshire Border website reported that Victoria thanked the guiding members for being involved with Cycletta and spoke of the fun and adventure she enjoyed when she was in guiding herself. She revealed that during her guiding life she was a Brownie, Guide - completing her Baden-Powell Award - and then Ranger, while her mother was a Brownie Leader.  

Victoria told the group that she enjoyed activities like kayaking and achieved her BCU 2star award. She concluded that she felt it prepared her well for all her efforts in cycling and to achieve Olympic success.

You can read the original story on the Girlguiding Cheshire Border and Girlguiding Cheshire Forest websites.