| Thursday Night Training Series
6/24/2010 | The Thursday Night Training Series is held at the Bob Rodale Fitness Park. The race is put on by the lehigh Valley Wheelmen.The Park is located right across the street from the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. The park has a one mile loop with one long incline on a curve and several very small rollers.(all big ring). The course was closed and license is needed there were 5 USA officials there to work the race. There are 2 races the first is the cat 5 with JR and women. The next was Cat 1,2,3,4 and women. I did the cat 5 race with about 30 startes , the other race had over 50 riders.
The course is very technical. Riders were all over the place in my race trying to find the best line. The incline was very windy.
The race is a points race scored 5,4,3,2,1, every third lap. No prizes or money awarded just pain.
The weather hot and muggy near 90's.
I mad the mistake of trying to go for points on the second prime way too early and got blown up and spit out the back. That was it. I should have just rode in the pack. The locals know the course and each other. I was able to jump on the back when I got lapped and finished with the field. I finished just out of scoring a point on my feeble attempt to look like I had some sprinting skills.
A little knowledge goes a long way.
I had fun and a good work out. | Dave Kovach |
