Half Term fun at Herne Hill Velodrome - Wednesday 25th October

The school holidays are just an excuse to do more cycling really...........well it is for our most enthusiastic riders! Hope and Oliver signed up for a day at Herne Hill Velodrome, Hope sent me this report and Jez sent the photos (great team work ;-)) 

We set off early Wednesday morning for a Herne Hill holiday club session in the worrying rain. However, when we got there the sun had come out ready for us to get on the track. I was joined by Oliver in the track centre as we got ready excitedly to take part in a hard session. We were split into groups, me taking to the top fence and Oliver ready to start his track riding experience. The top group started pairs on the blue getting to know other riders (as always!) whilst Oliver quickly got used to the new style of riding. We continued through the day to lunch with group riding (Me pleased with a close to perfect stacking) and tough races. Next a nice lunch break followed by an activity used in the first step of Madison (dropping down from resting to a fast pace) which I was particularly looking forward to trying.

Hope

"Oliver is a new track convert and now asking when we can go back!"