2011 Herne Hill Velodrome Open Season Racing

You'll need to be there before 2:00 to sign on. Ideally by 1:45 at the latest.
You'll also need to do an induction if you have never ridden at Herne Hill before.

hoops - at the last one the sign in ran from around 1.45 to 2.25. Realistically, expecting all racers to arrive more than 30 mins early might be somewhat optimistic ...

If you race fairly regularly at Welwyn/Reading you don't need an induction to ride open events

Ok, so the Programme is going to look something like this:

Warm up
U12 scratch (5 laps)
U14/U16 Scratch (6 laps)
A Cat scratch (12 laps)
U12 Points
U14/U16 points
Flying 200's
U12 Devil
U14/U16 Devil
Match Sprint Heats
B Cat win out
A Cat win out
Match Sprints Semi Finals
B cat points
A cat points
Match Sprint Final.
20K/Unknown distance (depending on time constraints)

Forgot to mention that LMNH are Kindly donating a giant salami, some cheese, and some bags of fine Italian coffee for some extra przes!

Slight correction there spags

The lovely peeps at Look Mum No Hands are indeed donating Bags of Square Mile coffee as prizes

CS Grupetto are providing a large Cheese and Salami as prizes

Putney Cycles are donating cash prizes

[got to keep the sponsors sweet innit]

Slight correction there spags

The lovely peeps at Look Mum No Hands are indeed donating Bags of Square Mile coffee as prizes

CS Grupetto are providing a large Cheese and Salami as prizes

Putney Cycles are donating cash prizes

[got to keep the sponsors sweet innit]

And we have a brand new podium to present the prizes on!

Sick. Who made it?

Nice one. See you all there.

Nice work grumpies, grand days racing.

Yes that was awesome. Well done.

Shut up legs.

Yeah, great job organizing today! And well done with the weather!

Thanks to STE5 for doing the (relatively) busy A Cat sign-on too :)

That's the trick though - while there's more A cats, they all know what to do so it's the easiest sign on.

Youths is a bitch. Kids, parents: hard work.

I didn't choose A's on purpose, it just kinda happened.

Good effort on the points race, BTW - did you get a placing in that?

4th.

Always a bridesmaid etc.

:*(

Massive thank you to the CS Gruppetto for putting on a slick and entertaining afternoon of racing. It was also really nice to see that London racers/organisers don't take themselves too seriously as most were to be seen in the pub for the post-race 'carbo-loading' session.
Good work Gruppetto.

Big thanks to all my fellow club members for helping with organisation, it wouldn't have been so smooth without you!... especially d.mac for keeping the sprinters in order!

But most importantly, thanks to all the riders for coming out and racing, as thats what it's all about!
It was a great day of racing, and I had really good fun. Look forward to putting on another one!

Rep'd.

great shot!..... GO ILLY!

The prime wasn't a fix... I promise!

we're uploading pics of the day here http://www.flickr.com/groups/1670764@N24/ you may have to apply to join the flickr group

there's pics of all the riders I think, with some good race faces on show

We had a great day as a club and putting on something like this gives you a real insight into the amount of work the coaches and others at HH put in to make everything happen week in week out - chapeau!

Big thanks to Putney Cycles for providing cash prizes and to LMNH for donating bags of coffee as prizes

biggest thank you goes out to all the CS Grupetto peeps who put on a superb event with HH. Special mention in despatches goes out to JC, Spags, Dave Mac and Scarlett

We'd deffo do this again and would encourage other clubs to give it a go

Great photos!