Updated January 30, 2017 Hello NSW, Australia and the world! Summer is track season; and this year is going to be a scorcher with options galore for hot racing, and for all abilities. We are already off to a fantastic start. The Sprint GP saw sprinters, non-sprinters, new racers and old veterans take to the…
Years ago, when I was a little cross curious, Cyclocross Newcastle held this mythical race. There was mud. At this point, I was racing fixie cross, and hadn’t fully committed. After that race, and the subsequent legend status of that day, I decided cross was something I wanted to get involved in. Cyclocross or…
Winter Is Coming Last week the long anticipated announcement of RAW track 2016 was reviled. Although stingy on details the first night has been announced for June 17th and we can fill in the blanks for the location being Dunc Gray velodrome, the usual format of warm up scratch, special wheel race, sprint race, enduro…
If you are a sprinter, you will change gears. If you have a coach, it’s usually changing gears according to what they say. Race gear, race gear +/- 2 inches. Heavy starts, whatever. Eventually you get to know what you race on what you race on. Keirin gear, F200, heaven forbid, outdoor on a windy…
Wow another winter has come and gone. It’s always sad when The summer track season ends, but mostly because summer is over, but the track season doesn’t actually end. I’ve now been racing RAW for 4 seasons. I made my debut in 2011. I was encouraged to race by my speed skating coach. She said…
And here it is the highly anticipated race reports from days 1 and 2 at the last Canadian track nationals. I have a few blog posts to upload so it’s going to be a bit of rapid fire. I’ll start with this one, and hopefully get a few more up in the next week. enjoy!…
The day started like the two before. Restless sleep, poor eating, totally wired. I seem to put so much stress on myself when I race. I’ve gotten better; I used to get those nervous butterflies every Friday afternoon before RAW. But this being nationals, and me being on the other side of the world, the stakes were…
I see your sock game and raise it to skinsuit. Not only is a skinsuit the only appropriate thing to wear on the track/cyclocross/crit course, it instantly let’s everyone around you know you are a total bad ass. I was told when I first started track I needed to get one. So the club order…
Ok, It’s Friday, well not really. It’s Thursday and I’m down in Melbourne tomorrow for Training (Track Torque) and catchin’ up with my Victorian Sprinting Peeps. Therefore no work tomorrow and today is now Friday <—- you’r welcome! So instead of editing and making all pretty, here is a ride report directly from my brain in…
Spinning is winning– I donno. Been there done that, it sucks. pain face while doing 10sec no resistance sprints Earlier, I mentioned Sprinting is a cult. Within this cult there is a small group of extremists. When other’s join us, people refer to it is sipping the kool aid. It’s a small group, a few voices,…
Lizanne Wilmot 