always a gamble on the weather front but this time we came up trumps! Our coaches for the afternoon Peter and Tony got everyone fixed up with bikes from the container and we moved quickly onto the track. Novice riders started on the safety zone with Tony, while our intermediates got straight on with warming up, riding in pairs above the blue line. Once everyone had mastered the fixed wheel, no brakes thing we moved onto a drill called squares and circles; riding on the white line in the straights, then driving on up the banking in the corners, this required lots of skillful riding, with everyone riding at different speeds there was overtaking and undertaking to do and of course lots of observation required. With everyone riding confidently we progressed onto chaingang style riding, stronger riders were able to push on and by the end of the block some natural splits had developed.
We finished the session with a couple of scratch races and a team relay. Great riding from everyone and makes my day to see our young riders challenging their coaches; we know we've done a good job when we can nolonger keep up with them :-)
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