Lee Valley Velopark- Track League

I haven't been selected for match sprints or keirin ..so much so for the special track league event.

Same here mate. I'm not sure I see the point of offering the bunch races on these "special events" nights. Would've rather had had had an extra novice category for the sprint events.

Maybe in the future events...

Unfortunately, as they probably knew there would be some upset riders, they've decided not to answer any emails about it either.

They answered to me!

They let you in the sprints?

they might.. I'll know more on Monday

They've refunded me because they won't let me race in the sprint events. I didn't ask for a refund initially, just why I wasn't considered and if there was an opportunity to change their minds.

The only response was a refund and my withdrawal from Monday's event. Not exactly what I had in mind with my initial email to them.

I've also asked if there was any chance of being considered for sprinting events in future special events nights, but no answer to this yet.

Strange decision.Was your email angry?

That's a shame Rob, as I said before you were looking powerful last week (unlike me)!

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Hi image, are you the guy we were chatting to on Thursday?

Yep, hello Mike!

i don't think my email was particularly angry. I mentioned that I was disappointed not to be involved with the sprint events, and that these were the races I was really looking forward to.

I respect their decision, but feel that some of the communication could be better.

@imagesurgery I don't feel that strong this week anyway. Got a nasty chest infection (again).

Good luck to everyone racing tonight.

I'm thinking of popping down for a spectate this evening. At least it'll be warm in the velodrome.

It was warm. The racing was good. There was a crash at the end.

There was a crash at the end.

What happened? What race was it? Nothing serious, I hope.

Last race of the evening, a Keirin. The rider in second was clipped, went down, was run over by another rider, sound of cracking carbon, and both were lying down for a number of minutes. Didn't seem to be in the rudest of health. Music was cut, medics were attending them, and the spectators started to drift away. Me included.

I was one of the riders in the last Keirin. Everything happened so fast, not much time react and went over a crashed bike and amazingly I stood upright with one foot unclipped crossing the line in 2nd.

I've entered my first TL on 18/12/14 but not had a confirmation email as yet. Anybody else had theirs.

(Yes, I'm sandbagging again!).

You should hear in next couple of days, and as you've not raced yet you should get priority.

After all that, I've been struck down with man-flu so have pulled out of Thursday's TL. Gutted, but I will bounce back with even more vigour.

Some great results for you on Thursday Rob, just seen their link. You'll get moved up if your not careful!

^ it was a classy performance

Err yeah. Not sure what happened. Maybe the EPO I had for lunch or something.

Not sure if they're gonna do much more moving around. I could do with nailing down my tactics more before moving up a level, I think.

Thanks @josephlucien. Hopefully I'll have a good night tomorrow too and check out the pace of the B cats while I'm at it.

Your tactics looked pretty good to me, best of luck for tomorrow, I'm hopefully back on 29th for some mixed B & C endurance.

Great Special Events night yesterday. I really enjoyed the madison racing and the "crowd" was definitely bigger than usual.

Where were all the sprinters though? Scared of their flying 200 times being less than the madison flying laps? ;-)

I was in the crowd with some friends and thoroughly enjoyed spectating - even the rubbish mexican wave! The madison was mental to try and keep track of and it was kind of amazing there weren't any crashes given the speed differentials with the tag partner dropping down but it looked a lot of fun to ride.