Steve - Chairman
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"I am a late starter to cycling (2019), first getting involved via an E-mountain bike to help me keep up with some mountain-biking friends. This proved a fantastic gateway to improving my fitness, such that I soon found myself using leg-power alone, across a range of disciplines, from gravel riding to time-trialing, competing in sportives and meandering the wilds bike-packing, both home and abroad. Cycling has opened up a whole new world of enjoyment and friendships."
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Ian - Club Secretary
"A late starter to cycling but that was 20 years ago and I've now just about mastered the art of not falling off. Unfortunately Strava keeps reminding me that I am getting slower with each passing year but I have done most of the iconic climbs across France, Spain and Belgium as well as completing such events as Chase the Sun and the Dunwich Dynamo in the UK. Likes to get off road too on a Mountain Bike and looks forward to the day that he is old enough to buy an electric one."
Liz - Club Events
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"I started cycling in 2017 by default when some friends roped me into doing a Sprint Tri with them for fun. My main disciplines had always been running and swimming, but injury meant I began cycling more often and soon got the bug. Busy family life meant rides were relatively short and ad hoc until post-Covid when time allowed me to do a longer ride most weekends. Wanting to explore new routes, meet other cyclists and generally improve led me to join WECC a few years ago. I enjoy riding the odd sportive, have just bought a gravel bike and, when the time’s right, would love to try my hand at some racing and CX."
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Phil - Membership SecretaryPhil joined Worthing Excelsior in 2010. To his surprise he won the Time Trial Points Competition in 2011. More recently he has won both the Club Runs Points Competition and Tourist Trial Competition on several occasions, neither of which require any particular cycling ability.
Phil ran the Evening 10 time trial and hill climb series between 2015 and 2017 and was responsible for sixty events. In 2023 he was responsible for the design and introduction of the club's new Castelli cycling kit with an aim of encouraging more members to wear club kit when participating club activities. |
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Dave - Club Runs & Touring
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"I’m an extremely late newcomer to cycling! In early 2020, like most of the country, I was 'furloughed' from working. I realised that I needed to lose some weight and improve my overall fitness and I started road cycling.
I bought my first decent bike a year or so later (Ribble SL Endurance) and progressed to the world of electronic shifting and tubeless tyres, about a year ago, and bought my current Giant TCR. My passion is for the 'Monument' rides and as well completing Paris-Roubaix four times, the Tour of Flanders Challenge twice, and the Amstel Gold Challenge three times, I have entered numerous Sportives across the south, usually via UKCE (UK Cycling Events). I completed the Etap Loch Ness back in 2023, and took part in the Tro Bro Leon in North West France a couple of years ago (known as the Paris Roubaix of the West). I organised a couple of trips for WECC Members from Worthing to Paris on the Avenue Vert over the past couple of years and hope to do this again next year - now that I'm fully retired! Since joining WECC back in mid 2020 I have usually finished in the top 3 of the Sunday Club Ride League Table, and have picked-up the Audax Trophy three times." |
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Ali - Web, Socials & Comms
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"I'd regularly commute to work in London on a single speed but things really kicked off in 2018 after signing up to Ride London, then a 100 mile sportive taking on London and the Surrey Hills. I bought my first road bike with gears and reluctantly my first pair of bib shorts - it didn't take long until I was spending more money on lycra than regular clothes.
I moved to worthing in 2020 and joined WECC to meet local riders. I'm regularly taking part in local crit races as well as gravel racing which has taken me further afield. My proudest moment is managing to qualify for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships in my age group." |
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Nathan - Welfare & Safeguarding Officer
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"After being encouraged to join the club in 2005, I soon got stuck into time trial. Never letting the fact I was never very fast get in the way. Time trialling in every distance from ten miles up to a 12 hour. individual, 2ups, and even a team time trial, with a real love for the sporting courses. The GS stella weekend being a highlight. Although never quick enough to win anything on my own, I was often there to ensure WECC were able to enter a team.
Due to children and work commitment, TT and long cycled rides were scaled back, and the love of running was discovered, with the aim of completing 100 marathons. But I still commute daily to work and still involved in the evening ten, but in a helping capacity. But, I'm sure my long awaited comeback is just around the corner." |
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Ben - General Member
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Ben is one of the newer faces on the Worthing Excelsior committee, happily embracing his role as general dogsbody and extra pair of hands at club events. A lifelong fan of two wheels, he grew up on BMXs and mountain bikes, had a spell away from cycling, then jumped back in during 2025 and hasn’t looked back. These days you’ll most often find him on the Sunday club rides, lining up for local sportives and Goodwood crits, or hanging onto the fast groups and pretending he’s not breathing out of his ears. Ben has a soft spot for punchy climbs like Steyning Bostal (despite insisting he’s too heavy to be a proper climber) and joined the club for the year‑round social rides, strong turnouts and mix of gravel, TT, crit and chilled weekend routes. Off the push‑bike he’s usually on the other set of two wheels, a motorbike or at home relaxing with the family and plotting the next big day out.
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