How lucky can you get! Monday morning and we are at the Sydney Velodrome for open training. There is one other rider on the track plus Chris and me. $10 entrance fee.
A good day to pick gears for the upcoming Clarence St Carnival which will be inside so no rain outs allowed!!
We do about 15 minutes of warm up when a derney fires up and Ben Kersten, Aussie Olympian, comes out to do some motor pacing.
A little different than back home, the slow riders ride below the blue line and Kersten and the derney ride at the blue line.
He is out for a few sessions but bascially, we have the track to ourselves for about 2 hours when we finally tire and decide to leave.
2 comments:
Pat: I'll be interested to hear the difference between the Sydney Velodrome and the one at the NSC. Same type of surface? -Bruce Nustad
Hi Bruce,
The tracks in Blaine, Sydney and Adelaide are all designed by the same guy I think, wood plank tracks. The only difference is the Aussie tracks are enclosed.
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