And helping as well...
This was the Monster Munch number one...a day full of racing for youngsters as well as women and men and open racing...a couple of the Scottish squad women rode the open events...good training for them!
There are two or three more of these events a few weeks apart.
Great fun..and the centre of the Velodrome was full!
Great to see full fields of up and coming youngsters as well as junior and senior riders ( for each race the track limit is 24 riders).
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The velodrome is quite impressive. We have nothing like this in Massachusetts, USA. Our cycling clubs ride together on rural country roads when the weather permits. Did you get a new bicycle for yourself?
...around and round they go!
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If you go to the blog Ted's notes on bicycling, Susan, he has a list of velodromes in the USA, that was in August 2012.
There were two indoor velodromes then and a third is now in Michigan.
I haven't replaced that bike..but I bought my daughter's track bike from her, a nice steel Pinarello that I use when we go to Caird Park in Dundee...a longer shallower outdoor velodrome
My late husband was a champion cyclist when he was young and living in Edinburgh and one day, here in Canada he saw a track bike , used and still very expensive, and he just had to have it. He was about 60 at the time and he also bought, shoes and a set of rollers so he could ride in the basement. Well guess what happened, he fell off, he never could get going in the rollers. He has been gone for 4 years now and that bike is still in the basement. It hung on the wall in a bedroom for several years before I sent it to the cellar. Gigi
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Looks like alot of fun, how many laps do you do?
Amy it depends which race...the shortest are three laps timed over the last 200m...the sprint...or 500m time trial.. usually two laps nowadays as tracks are shorter.
A Madison...a team race with sprints...or a motor paced race..can be 200 laps!!..50km...not for me ever!!
Gigi who was your husband? Pirate or me might know him...
And yes, rollers can be difficult to learn.
That is why I use a turbo trainer!!
How cheering to see your old bike racing anew!
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