On thursday I helped out with the training races at the velodrome. It was fun to see all the new track riders out there. Lots of new women riders too.
To race on thursdays you have to have taken a track class then you are ready to race. After thursdays the riders go to the cat 4 races and then after that there are the Friday night races.
To give the riders more experience they had them race with a "pacer". They have to stay with the pacer until there is a bell and then they can sprint for points. This forced them to ride in a pack instead of having the strongest rider break away and miss out on the group riding skills. Mark and Brian traded off being pacer. There were 7 fields all together so they got a good workout in doing the pacing.
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