Track Camp - Day 1

The love for the bike is back! Today was the first day of a 3-day track camp. I did Kenny's camp last August and got so much out of it so when he said he'd be coming back to do another one this spring, I said "Sign me up!"

Today was intro and pursuit riding mostly. There were 15-20 of us today, plus Kenny and Bilko, another coach from Seattle. And the video camera. All ranges of age, speed and experience.

First was a 20-25 minute group warm up, 13 mph to start, ramping slowly up to 25 mph. (Everyone riding an 81" gear.) I hung on until the last lap. Felt pretty good about that. I even bridged up when the guy in front of me lost contact and moved up track.

Next was standing starts (2 x start to turn 2; 3 x start to turn 3)  (first start in 81" gear; rest in 86" gear). Roll around while others were starting. I had some good starts, which I'm happy about since I hadn't done one since September.

Change gears to 88"

Then it was a 2 lap effort @ 2K pursuit pace, don't go out too hard so you maintain effort/pace on second lap. From a standing start. He timed us, getting lap times and I was pretty consistent. We did this twice and the second time we were supposed to "float" the pedals 3-4 pedal strokes coming along the finishing straight (with a tailwind), but not let the speed drop. I think I did OK on that.

Cool down and that was it. It was a perfect day at the track--sunny and later on it got up to about 72F.