Last summer, responding to members' requests, Andy McEvoy and I approached One Leisure in St Neots to see if it was possible for St Neots CC to have its own bespoke Spinning Class. After some negotiation, we reached an agreement that we could have our own class with an instructor at £80/class/week. This meant that we would have to sell 20 places a week to our membership just to break even, (note, they only have 20 spinning bikes).
We started our Spinning Classes last October not knowing just how many members would want to pay £4.00 per class, a month in advance, without refund if they missed a class. Well I was pleasantly surprised that we sold all 20 spaces every month. Over the 6 month period we had 39 different members attending our class with a healthy reserve list.
On a couple of occasions, when our instructor was unable to attend, our intrepid fellow cyclist, Alistair Henderson stepped into the breach and took the class. Suffice to say that we all thoroughly enjoyed his class and suggested that he may want to take this up full time!
I would like to thank everyone that attended our classes and also our instructor Ally for making it a great success. If we get a good response from our membership we will restart the Spinning Classes again in October.
Watch this space!
Mark Colmer