You are reading a single comment by @Velocio and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Velocio
The booking is confirmed, you won't need accreditation beforehand.
There are some changes.
When the sessions were initially announced the velodrome had not hired the coaches and structured the sessions.
So I booked (and communicated to you guys) a slot believing it was pretty much ours to do with as we pleased.
That's not the case.
What is the case is that now the coaches have been hired and the safety, insurance and other policies all set in place... the club sessions fall into two groups: 1) Club practise, 2) Race.
The race sessions are not what we booked, in that they are entirely different things with different levels of obligation on us, and different price structures and everything being pretty out of our reach without far more sponsorship to cover costs, and organisation and promotion.
What we have is a club practise session, and the stipulation of this is that it's only safe to have 16 riders on the track each hour, and for the sessions to follow some structured format.
Meaning in the 3 hour slot, we can have 48 riders, each of whom will get 1 hour on the track.
It's training, and we will open up the 48 places and will allocate them based on how far in your accreditation you've progressed.
This way you'll be training from your current accreditation level, or will start the accreditation.
Training will give you a good go on the track, and should include flying laps and practise sprints and stuff if each hour progresses smoothly.
All of this also means... you don't have to be accredited in advance... but if you are going through accreditation you can work towards completing part of it within the session.