Fuck yeahhhh, man. I'd go out on Thursday but I have class. I'll be there Friday night for sure. I'm bummed you won't be. The following week for sure though.

yetti_core:

I have to watch lost on thursdays.

edit. eh maybe I'll watch it online.

We should go out there together on Friday.

^ I'm going to borrow your rollers and do my own time trials while watching lost if anyone is interested.
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Id like to go. Ill have to play it by ear depending on work. If it rains out track dev class on Wed Ill def try harder to make it.

playground_terror:

oooh! fun! what time is lost on? If its later both track and lost of possible.

10!!!i guess i can do both

what time on thursday and friday does the racing start?

Here is a link to the schedule http://www.obra.org/track/schedule/2008/index.html

Both start at 6:30 but be there by 5:30 ish if you plan to race.

Racing generally goes on till 8 ish if i remember correctly. So if you're just watching you dont need to show up at 6:30.

I believe you're required to go to Wednesday night's class in order to race on Friday. But not positive about that. I thought I heard Meg say that on Saturday.

6PM, damn not much time to warm up! Oh well...

OK, depending on how the Wednesday class goes I might try to make it out for the Kilo. I've never trained for such short of a distance and will suck horribly but it should be a good benchmark.

yetti_core:

playground_terror:

6PM, damn not much time to warm up! Oh well...

I just found out i have thursday off so I will be there to watch you rule the track from start to finish!

wow sweet! Well let me know if you want to drive there with me, or if you are riding.

yetti_core:

playground_terror:

6PM, damn not much time to warm up! Oh well...

I just found out i have thursday off so I will be there to watch you rule the track from start to finish!

Sweet! I get out of class at 7 PM, but you should hang out with us afterwards, too.

playground_terror:

the track is 268.43 meters around. So its a little less than two laps around for the 500...really really short. I have no idea about gearing. I just use whatever someone tells me to use. I have 46 / 16 on there now.

Haha, just trust whatever Zak says. Plus if you kept it at 14, you wouldn't get to have a sweet pink link, mang!

playground_terror:

my pinky linky? hahah.....dirty

Yeah, Sean's kinda gross. And I mean that in the most loving way.
I like that ratio though, so yuh!

hmmm i could be wrong but i think the 500 might be a rolling start with a free lap. I can't remember. Maybe i'm thinking of the 200...

The 500/kilo are both standing starts. 200s are flying starts. You get 3 total laps, and the last 200m are for time.

Let me tell you, the kilo is the most painfull thing in cycling. You will fell good for the first 2, 2.5 laps. But then it feels like you had a piano dropped on you.
The 500 is a little better, but only the gals get to ride it (unless you are over 55).

Cant really help with gears. The idea though is to have a gear that you can keep spinning when your legs want off the ride.

And I'll be there. I wont be riding (kilo isnt my thing), but just watching/chilling/ cheering on y'all :)

oh, and for the non-paced 200. There is a standing 250, but not really done at Alpenrose. Although that might change this year as I did one at Nationals last year, and it was one of the most fun events EVAR!!!

Others may disagree, but I would make sure you are at top spin and maintaining speed with the ratio first.

I have no idea what you run that ratio like, but if its not too much spin for you and you maintain your speed, then keep it.

Once again correct me if I'm wrong someone,
but the two things to watch out for with your ratio should be something like this:
Cadence: top speed is spinning too fast for you.
Speed Maintain: too much resistance causing inconsistent speed.

Yea, ask Zak, you ride with him enough.

haha actually Zak and I never ride together. But i'm fairly certain he is observant of my "style" while i'm riding or so it seems. I like what i'm running now, it felt really good out there on Saturday..but i agree and think i could handle the 15 instead.

I'm interested to see what other beginner womens times are. I feel like a lot of the other beginners are going to be fast since they race road or cross...where as I am only doing track and don't have as much training under my belt. So hopefully there will some others like myself out there to compare my time to.

THOR4LIFE:

http://app.obra.org/results/2007/Track/6078

that will give you some idea about the time. The race starts a little out of turn 2. Start as hard as you can. You will get the bell as you are under the alpenrose sign in the middle of turn 1/2 (thats right, the race ends in the middle of the turn). Then you have 1 lap to go. You will really start of feel it as you go into turn 3. Just try and keep the legs moving.

Here is a good crash corse on standing starts:

http://fixedgearfever.com/modules.php?name=Coaching&op=sst

Thanks for all of the info, Kevin. It's really nice to have someone here with so much knowledge of the track. Really helpful.

Haha any time guys. With any luck it wont be raining tommrow. Least not enough to can the class. But its sorta lookin like that. Thurs looks good, as does Sat

I may be driving from Eugene to come out on Thursday, not sure yet. It would totally suck if we got there and it started raining >:[

I'm hoping 49x15 is cool. 49x16 = spinning out between turn 2 and 3 if I dip down from the wall into sprinter's lane.

yetti_core:

I am so excited for you keven...can't wait til thursday.

oh and I will most likely ride out there because I am not going to be racing I feel obligated to.

hehe...thanks for your support..i'll need it! i'm amped you're so excited to get out there!

Im out for the sprints. Dont think I can leave early enough. But I may ride my road bike up there to check it out for a few.