Catalpa Dash 2024

Event Type |

Road

Date & Time

  • 01 April, 2024
  • 09:00 AM

Location

  • Fremantle Prison
  • Fremantle

Difficulty

  • All comers
Event Details:

Easter Monday 2024 (1st April)
Breakfast from 9AM at Fremantle Prison
Depart 10AM for 30km supported ride
Presentation 12PM Rockingham Foreshore

Grades & Distances:

Together with the Catalpa Adventure Festival, and the Fenian Society, join us in recreating the 1876 escape of Irish prisoners from Fremantle Prison.

Starting with breakfast provided by the Fenian Society, the ride will “escape” Fremantle and make its way along Cockburn Rd and Rockingham Rd to the festival on the Rockingham foreshore. Ride leaders will keep everyone together and a support vehicle will be following.

Period or themed costumes are encouraged, with a prize available for best-dressed!

If you do not already have existing ride insurance coverage through organisations like AusCycling or WestCycle, you can get FREE coverage for this event by registering for a 4 week trial through AusCycling. (start your trial membership after March 5th to cover this event)

Race Entry

Entry includes:

Buffet breakfast
Event shirt
Supported ride
Entry into competition for prizes

Contact Information
  • Event Organiser: Peel District Cycling Club

Tim Roach

Elected Director | Off Road

Tim has been in senior leadership and strategic development roles for more than twenty years. He is currently Director of Executive Education in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University and is a past Assistant Commissioner and General Manager in the public service. He is an Accountant (FCPA) and sits on the Divisional Council of CPA Australia.

Tim has been involved in racing mountain bikes, BMX and triathlon for many years, both as a father of two children who race and as a past and current bike racer. Tim is the current over-50 State Champion in downhill mountain biking. He is also a very regular and enthusiastic transport cyclist; frequently seen in a suit and tie riding to meetings in the city on a mountain bike.

Denise Sullivan

Chair | Governance & Risk Committee

Denise Sullivan has a career spanning over twenty years in senior management and executive roles in the state public and not-for-profit health sectors.

In her usual role of Director Chronic Disease Prevention with the Western Australian Department of Health, she leads the development of state chronic disease and injury prevention policy and planning frameworks and contributes to the shaping of the national preventive health policy agenda.

Her professional interests cover many aspects of chronic disease and injury prevention encompassing health communications, health promotion and research, public policy on health and workforce planning and development.

She has a particular interest in furthering collaborations with other sectors with a mutual interest in promoting a more active and healthier WA community, and creating and sustaining environments that support this. Denise is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Leadership WA Signature Program, and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian College of Health Service Managers.

Denise is a recreational cyclist and recent convert to mountain biking (although trainer wheels still on!).