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There was some good racing going on yesterday evening with young Kareem Akinnibi holding is own very well in the C Races I noticed. A couple of sandbaggers in the B's and C's and maybe a few who might want to consider riding in the C's.
Once again the old men, Simon Schmidt, Ralph Carter and Kia Apperley showing the younger riders that being over fifty they're strong enough to win and place well with Simon winning the A 3 lap dash, Ralph taking 5th in the 30 lap Points and me picking up a handful of points in the A Devil. Sorry Kia I did not see your results, but know you were putting the hammer down in the Points; I couldn't hold your wheel as you and three others road away to take some lap points, on more than one occasion I think.
The warm-up race is always a bit sketchy. No more so than yesterday with the pace in the first five laps yo-yoing. On two many occasions I found myself having to kick back. This didn't happen in the other races, so why in the warm up. It is a five lap warm up part for goodness sake.
Left to me, the warm up race would be 12 - 14 laps with the first 8 being through and off / rotation / chain-gang (whatever you want to call it) with the pace SLOWLY picking up each lap. If you can't do a couple of turns at the front in the warm up, then I would question whether you should be riding in the A&B's. I'd sacrifice 4 laps of the 20km scratch race to know riders are riding safer and in the right race.
And in doing this it would serve two purposes, as an extension of the Monday race training, encourage rider's track craft to improve as the pace picks up in a controlled manner and give a decent fair warm-up to everyone. Discuss!