Velodrome Wrap-Up
Last week's camp at the velodrome left me hungry for more. It was a great intro to track riding and racing. By Friday we were drafting, riding in a pace line and switching positions on each lap. We also practiced starts and worked on strategy and technique...
Indoor tracks are a real rarity and I feel pretty lucky to have that facility just 30 minutes from my house. I am planning on rounding up 5-8 of my cycling friends and arranging a Learn to Ride course for them so that I'll have friends to head out there with. Friends.... consider yourself warned!
I want to get more into it but there is an investment required - the bicycle tree I planted in my back yard has yet to produce anything that looks like this:
Until that tree starts producing I suppose I'll have to rent...
Here are a few more pictures I took at the track. Incidentally, as difficult as it looks to ride on the track, it is actually 50x MORE difficult to take a good picture there. Low light + fast moving objects = hors categorie photography.
The Burnaby Velodrome...
Track close-up.... it kind of creaks and groans as you fly around it... pretty cool.
Some of the bikes... I was riding a Cannondale...
Mark (riding) and Stephen (timing/steadying). Photography is a lot easier when objects don't move...
Mark sprinting at the start of his 3000m effort.
Locked on the black line....
I didn't get a single photo of myself during the whole camp. I didn't want to trouble any of the other riders... some other time....
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5 comments:
That place is pretty awesome looking. I've never seen anything like that, in person.
I want to go, I want to go...but the track would have to be EMPTY because I'm sure to take out everything in my path. The damn bicycle tree isn't blooming at my house either:(...or the money tree I planted last year.
you plant a bicycle tree.
i plant a money tree.
same results!
I have had the same results with the fast tree I planted!
Oooooh! So cool looking. I'd like to plant a shoe tree and see what happens.
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