Ok, technically I wasn't actually riding a bike....
Ok, technically I wasn't actually riding a bike....
55miles into the peak after this mornings 10 mile run. The sun was nice and i just made it back before dark. Was going to go a bit further but id eaten nowt all day and not put a gel in.
Daz, where I live nothing is local, apart from the hills, the pub and workSo no spinning for me, I'd have to go to Newport or Cardiff for that...
I hve rollers, but tend to ride the track in winter... 2 - 3 times a week... unless I get injyred again like last year, when I had 4 months off over winter... perfect!
Went and raced cross this morning... legs coped, but I could not go into the red with my broken ribs... just could not breathe well enough... Some hard turbo and track sessions this week, see if we can drum them back into shape
Ah goed gedann on the cross race. Oh you have to travel a long way from the hills to the track. Hann what do they charge at the velodrome. Is it per session or a yearly fee
You pay per session daz... Depending on the session it is either £5,50 or £7... This is for regular drop in sessions. There also are beginners and improvers courses, which you book per 4 or 6 sessions in advance. I pay a yearly hire fee for a hook to keep my track bike there, so I din't have to carry it around with me as well.
It is great to have such a training facility relatively near by! The velodrome is where they also do the nearest spinning classes to me, but so far I have rather ridden the track, much more fun
Originally Posted by daz h
Well thats pretty good value.We should have lots more velodromes. The goverment wants the public to get fitter. I cannot think of a better way.Just climbed off the rollers. 100minutes. Ran out of tunes. Cant take badger running as the firework brigade have started
I agree, we should have lots of velodromes, but they are a little exensive to build aparently!
Three now in the country though
We are getting one in derby hann.Not sure when. They was talking 2012. Right next to starbucks.
Tim Moore's book, Another Kilometre and We're in the Showers, is v interesting on the 'golden age' of track cycling and the old velodromes (as it is on a lot of the history of cycling, both pro and amateur).
He was writing just before the recent renaissance, thanks to Hoy, Pendleton and BC etc, so was very pessimistic on its future, talking like it was a dying form of cycling, soon to be obsolete.
Its a fascinating book is that.
But left me with a different view of Jaques Goddet ( He owned the velodrome near the eiffel tower, vel D hivier).
At some point he had the decision to make to hand over the velodrome to the Germans to use it as a holding centre for 28,000 jewish people who were the sent to Auswitz.
He lived with that all his life.
The man who directed the Tour and set up L Equipe must have been tormented with that till the day he died.
Now thats a question you would want answering. A sad book but didnt quite cover everything for me.
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