Club Track Hire

[Andy S]

Thankyou for sorting this Paul
Looking forward to it!

[Paul Nicholas]

Thanks for the support guys well happy with the response so far. Sorry for the sporadic replies on the forum just getting over moving house, I was without internet for a week or so!.

[Paul Nicholas]

Track day this Wednesday! If you can be there at 7:30ish ready to ride that should give us plenty of time to hire bikes at reception and pick them up. This is the address for your satnav: Newport Sports Village, Newport, NP19 4RA. I think I posted a while back what kit you need to bring but here it is again:

Helmet (without any attachments, Visor, camera etc)
Gloves
Cycling shorts/leggings
Jersey/T-shirt, shoulders must be covered
You can wear your skin suit too
Cycling shoes with Look Keo Cleats (or Trainers if you want to use a bike with toe straps)
Water bottle (it gets warm & dry)
Food
Towel (showers are available)

Hopefully you can all still make it, if there are a couple of you who would like to join us it is not too late the club has hired the track for us so all you need to do is hire a bike on the night it's a great opportunity to try you're hand at track cycling. I have told them that this is a group of mixed ability riders and for a lot of you it will be your first time so the coach will split us into groups based on that. The emphasis is on us having a safe fun session riding with club mates of the same ability. Any questions let me know PM or post it here.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday.

Ta
P

[Richard L]

If there's still spaces available I'd love to come along
Regards
Richard

[Paul Nicholas]

Yes there are still spaces, all welcome.

[Nige]

Anyone need a lift Pencoed/bridgend area give me a shout

[Greg B]

Same here if anyone ones a lift en-route

[MikeHill]

Paul - so sorry but I won't be able to make tonight's session. Absolutely gutted !! I've just got home from a 15 hour shift and need to be back in for 5 tomorrow morning.

Hope you all have a good 'un!!

[Nige]

Great night tonight thanks all for sorting out. Great fun riding with no brakes and trying to remember to keep pedaling lol. fair to say we all had a great time.

[Reece0]

Thanks for organising the evening Paul. A great experience.

For the record the times for the rolling 500 m were


P.Nicholas         34.08
C.Mac Donald    36.85
S.Chapman        37.34
S.Curry.             38.48
R.Adams.           38.59
G.Brett.             39.35
N.Williams.         39.37
A.Samuels.         40.04
R.Lewis.            40.58
A.Harris.            40.71
T.Mansell.          42.45

[harpo]

Are you sure Mr Chapman was third?

[Tony M]

Thanks for arranging that. It was quite an experience well worth the effort of going to Newport. Big thumbs up

[Paul Nicholas]

Big thanks to everyone who was able to attend. We had a decent sized group on the (very hot!) night, everyone got on really well and I was surprised they had us riding right at the top of the track so quickly (I don't remember doing that on my first visit!) Fairplay to Greg who was leading us around, if it was me I would have been bricking it!

Hope it was what everyone was expecting I was a bit worried afterwards that the two drills we did were a bit harder than I had advertised, in fairness the first drill was hard because we were riding along at a fair lick - so when it came time to do a lap it was more like a lap and a half! I struggled on the last effort. The 500m sprint is a hard effort too thats the first time I had tried them like that, usually you go off the front of the group as it rolls around on the blue line. Hope you could see the benefits of training on the track, excellent for Team TT training getting used to riding on the wheel and chaingang. I really enjoyed the night and had a big grin on my face at the back of the line watching everyone putting in a good performance.

Next time we could look to tailor the session more to our needs, so maybe not so much sprinting!

Ta
P

[Steve Chapman]

Great night! Thanks again Paul

[craig m]

Great pic !