Wednesday Night Velodrome

Wednesday evening teammate Ashley and I headed down to the track last night for the Wednesday night races. There were about 12 people in the Cs, including a couple of guys who are fast, but don't have a lot of pack riding experience.

15 lap points

10 lap scratch

miss and out

10 lap snowball

My training and recovery has been the subject of conversation lately (a few people I've solicited, most others have offered up their opinions unsolicited--but I'm taking it all in so if you have an opinion, feel free to offer it.) After Tuesday night's session when I couldn't turn the pedals, I was curious to see how I'd feel on Wednesday. I talked to Rick about how I felt (as he had been at the Masters' States and then the camp with me and was coming off a few easy days) and I was glad to hear that he'd been feeling similar with about a 20% power decrease the day before in his training session. I decided to leave the 81 inches on and race with that so as to not blast my legs, but to also work on spinning faster.

15 lap points/sprints every 5

I told junior Andrew B. that I was going to stick to his wheel, but the little devil took off like a shot and that was it. With only 4 women (me, Ashley, SJBC gal, new younger gal), the fast guys dictated the race and I got spit out the back spinning like mad. Max speed hit 28 mph and I couldn't move my legs any faster. Re-integrated with the pack and tried to hold on again.

Legs definitely felt better than the night before.

10 lap scratch

Pretty much a repeat of the first race. Fast. Hung in a little longer, working on spin.

Miss and out-11 riders

Ashley and I were a little leery about this race due to who was there. I wasn't going to get caught up in crazy sprinting for the line with people who don't have good pack skills. I was first out, just pipped by Andrew. We were riding the same gearing and he can pedal faster than I can.

10 lap snowball

aka a 10-lap sprint

I just rode tempo and hooked up with Andrew towards the end of the race and traded pulls with him and led him out in the final lap for him to work on his sprint.

Highlight of the night: Ashley and I were the lap-card/bell ringing gals for one race.

Lowlight of the night: No good wheels at all, except mine and Ashley's, but I can't follow my own wheel and with tired legs, I wasn't any help at all for Ashley. One particular rider nearly took people out in 3 separate races and got a chat by the supervisor afterwards. The other rider we are leery of nearly put me into the rail.

Finishing the night rubber side down is always good.  Yes, taco truck for us afterwards.