Running: 3.4 miles with L.
Desert: never before dinner
Weight: hmm...not pro cycling weight yet
In case you haven't heard I'm getting a TRACK BIKE!!!! I've been totally slacking on the blog so I apologize for not sharing my new found interest with you. Much to my chagrin I headed out to Queens for a track racing clinic for women a few weeks ago. Sidebar: it amazes me how long it can take to get somewhere in the same city! It took cycling friend J and I 1 hour and 50 minutes to get there from midtown manhattan! I was shaking in my cleats! I've really been feeling the need to do something outside my comfort zone. Racing a bike without brakes on sloping racing track sounded like just the thing. Kidding aside I was literally shaking. I have mastered riding over the GW Bridge without shaking, but this brought the shakes back. (Please note I have not mastered riding up the ramp on the bride perhaps I'll make that a goal for 2010) Much to my surprise I loved the track!
One problem with the track...track bikes. The cool thing about most velodromes is that they have loaner bikes. The bikes are available for clinics and racing. The bikes are not for the extremely short legged female. Which means I have to buy a bike to ride on the track. To cut to the chase the man in charge of the clinic helped me hunt down a used track bike in my size for $100 less than the bike they were selling at the clinic. I'm going to pick it up tonight in NJ. SO EXCITED!!!
Did you know that there are only 15 velodromes in the US?
1 comment:
I did not know that about the velodromes. Thanks for the fun fact sister!
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