Serpentine Cycling

Group Rides

Group rides are organised by Serpentine members every Sunday on an informal basis. Rides start from:

Putney – for Surrey and Windsor rides;
Crystal Palace – for Kent rides; and
Hackney Town Hall – for Essex rides.

Rides are led by volunteers who are not coaches. Ride leaders will be happy to advise you, but you take part at your own risk and take responsibility for your safety and that of the whole group. To join the rides you should:

Be properly equipped and prepared to fix ‘mechanicals’ and get yourself home.
Be capable of the distances. Distances vary from 50-60km to much longer, with a typical distance of around 80km. It is worth trying to do 3 or 4 laps of Richmond Park (without getting bored!).
Be comfortable riding on roads with other traffic.
Be comfortable riding in a group and have read our guidelines for group riding.
Be riding a drop handlebar road bike. Hybrids or mountain bikes will not be able to maintain the pace required for group riding.
And ensure that you have the relevant liability cover under your insurance.

The ride leader will advise the expected speed of the group when organising the ride. For your own enjoyment you must have a good idea of your pace before joining a ride. We don’t drop anyone – if someone finds the group too tough they can drop back to the next group at a suitable time or at the coffee stop. Always carry a phone and payment method (payment cards or Google/Apple pay or equivalent), so you can escape if necessary, and let the ride leader know if you are dropping off.

Windsor Serpentine Ride 2023 — Serpentine riders in Windsor – 2023

Serpies riders in Richmond Park 2024

Beginners and Improvers

For those who have less experience riding, we occasionally do laps in Regent’s Park, or hill repeats at Swain’s Lane. We are also considering doing some intro rides for newcomers.

Social Rides and Trips

Each December we also organise an annual Christmas ride to Windsor in fancy dress for a bit of fun. We also organise trips abroad such as the annual training trip to Lanzarote and have been to Mallorca, Gran Canaria, and France before.

Serpies at the Mallorca 312 — Serpies trip to the Mallorca 312

Serpies spin class 23

Spin Classes

We organise spin classes on Wednesday at 19:00 during the winter months. Classes are led by a qualified instructor who is also a Serpentine member. The sessions are on-hold as we are looking for a new venue. We will provide an update when classes are confirmed.

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Serpentine Running Club, are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. For any personal data you provide for the purposes of your membership, the club is the Data Controller and is responsible for storing and otherwise processing that data in a fair, lawful, secure and transparent way.

We are registered on the Data Protection Register, number Z7466471.

Your rights

By law, you have a number of rights when it comes to your personal information, including the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal information; to restrict or object to certain kinds of processing of your personal data; and to complain to the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office about the processing of your personal information. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office. You have a right to obtain a copy of your personal information by writing to the Honorary Secretary at the address shown on our contacts page. Please contact the Honorary Secretary at the address shown our contacts page if you have any questions on the use of your personal information or if you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information.

Our use of your information

We need to process your personal information to be able to administer your membership, and to provide the membership services you have signed up to when you became a member of the club. Our lawful basis for processing your personal information is that we have a contractual obligation to you as a member to provide the services provided as part of your membership for the club. However, we do not carry out any automated decision making.

If you do not provide us with the personal information necessary, or withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal information, we may not be able to provide the membership services to you.

In general, we collect information for the following purposes:

For training and competition entry

sharing personal data with club coaches or officials to administer training sessions;
sharing personal data with club team managers to enter events;
sharing personal data with facility providers to manage access to the track or check delivery standards; and
sharing personal data with leagues, county associations (and county schools’ associations) and other competition providers for entry in events.

For funding and reporting purposes

sharing anonymised data with a funding partner as condition of grant funding e.g. Local Authority;
analysing anonymised data to monitor club trends; and
sending an annual club survey to improve your experience as a club member.

For membership and club management

processing of membership forms and payments (including through Worldpay and/or Stripe);
payment of expenses;
sharing data with committee members to provide information about club activities, membership renewals or invitations to social events;
club newsletter/emails promoting club activity; and
publishing of race and competition results

Marketing and communications (where separate consent is provided)

sending information about promotions and offers from sponsors;
sending information about selling club kit, merchandise or fundraising.

How long we keep your information

How long we keep your information will depend on the purpose for which we use it. Any personal information we hold on you will be securely destroyed after seven years of inactivity on your account.

More about our collection and use of your information

1. All website visitors

Summary information is collected automatically by our system e.g. number of visitors to the site. This information is used to monitor use of the web site and will not contain information that can identify you as an individual. Apart from this information, the only other data we collect is from any forms on this site that you may choose to complete.

We undertake not to pass any of your details on to any third party, except where it is required to register you with the relevant bodies to which Serpentine is affiliated, and will only use the information you supply to us for the purpose for which it was given to us.

2. Athletes appearing in our results database

We collect and hold details of name, date of birth, gender, club, email address and mobile phone number for the purpose of uploading and displaying race results for races we organise. Serpentine members and all athletes entering any Serpentine race consent to this information being stored on our server and for their name, age category and gender to be displayed publicly on serpentine.org.uk. Name, date of birth, gender, club, age category and race result data may be passed to England Athletics, UK Athletics, Powerof10, British Triathlon, Triathlon England, Tri247, BTF London League and similar organisations where necessary to aid in the publicising of race results. All such organisations undertake to never pass any of this data to anyone else.

We promise not to pass any of your details on to any other third party and will only use the information you supply to us for the purpose for which it was given to us.

3. Serpentine members

All personal details supplied when you joined the club, whether online or otherwise, are held on our server. We will not sell or give your details to any third party, other than the minimum required to register you with our affiliating bodies, and as per paragraph 2 above for members’ results in any race they might do.

You may opt to share your contact details with other members of the club; you can decide which information you want to share on the “Edit personal details” screen. Contact information that you choose not to share can be seen only by officers of the club. Information that you choose to share can only be seen by other members of the club who have logged in to the database; this means, for example, that your email address is not visible through the website to junk mailers.

For those members choosing to register with England Athletics via Serpiebase (all members who wish to compete in competitions held under UKA rules need to do so) Serpentine will transfer your personal data (name, date of birth, gender, club, address, email address, phone number and mobile phone number) to England Athletics. England Athletics will enable access to an online portal (MyAthletics) and contact you to invite you to sign into and update your profile (which, amongst other things, allows you to set and amend your privacy settings). If you have any questions about the continuing privacy of your personal data when it is shared with England Athletics, please contact dataprotection@englandathletics.org.

In addition to passing data to EA, Serpentine may share the minimum necessary personal data (name, date of birth, gender, club, age category) with leagues, county associations and other competition providers as necessary for entries to events. All such organisations undertake to never pass any of this data to anyone else.

As part of organising race events for club members, as a condition of entry, Serpentine may require you to upload images and photos to image hosting providers (e.g. Dropbox) for timing verification and other purposes. Entering such races is entirely optional. As an independently run third-party Dropbox may collect and use the information you provide to them according to their own privacy policy.

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