Rules of the Track

1. DO NOT STOP PEDALING. EVER.

2. See Rule 1.

3. See Rules 1. and 2 and ingrain this into your brain.

Damn! Gal at the track this morning (road rider, but not a racer, first time on track) stopped pedaling at speed (probably 17-20 mph; luckily not 30+ as some of us had been going) and went off in the ambulance. Out cold. Hopefully she'll be OK.

Subtitle: We've Hooked Another One!

This morning I had just gotten up and was drinking coffee and teammate Mo called to ask if I wanted to go to the track this morning to the beginnner session (in addition to the afternoon session that I was already planning to go to). I'm easy...yes, I'll go. I knew Matt would be the supervisor so he wouldn't mind if we were late (since we'd talked to him last night about coming), plus, we might be doing flying 200s (my favorite!) So we headed down and I was nervous about the "heavy fog" that I had to use my windshield wipers for (rain/wet track = no ride). But, the session was on with a total of 17 people. Yea!

Mo did great, once she got the hang of getting onto the bike and getting clipped in and going. Lots of drills and yes, we did get to do the flying 200 (too small gearing for me still, but I worked on spinning, spinning, spinning a high cadence). We were doing some leadouts towards the end of the session when the crash happened and that pretty much ended the morning session. Once the ambulance had gone and the park rangers started to disperse, we did some easy riding, then Matt told Mo she could stay for the afternoon session. It ended up being just four of us---me, Mo, a guy, Paul, and Megan, one of the young Proman team gals. More drills, including the dreaded bumping drill and a number of hard efforts. It was starting to spit rain every once in a while, so about 2:00, we called it a day and Mo, Matt and I went and had Mexican/Salvadorian food.

Fun day. I'm planning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week. In case it's not obvious, I"m hooked.