Track Etiquette

Great thread this!

Off to Manchester next week for my first taste of the velodrome, hopefully i won't be tasting it literally!
Does anybody have any advice that may help me to get accredited? What exactly do I have to do?
Should I be doing anything specific this week? Smashing it? Taking it easy?

Sorry for the slight derail.

Are you just doing a taster session (5-6pm? - I'll be on SQT training session afterwards)? The taster is only an hour, maybe riding for just over half-an-hour if its your first time, so you don't have to specifically train for it. You need to progress through blue & pink slips to get accrediation at Manchester - first test is to smoothly ride on the stayers line for 20-minutes and be able to draft & swap with another rider, but you'll need to a handful of tasters under belt as well. Manchester do do one-day accrediation courses (usually over the summer?) but they aren't well publicised.