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Howard, could you send us the GPX for that route? - summercxseries@gmail.com

Photos from last week,

and this week.

Training session tomorrow night at Herne Hill- blow off the cobwebs! Only 1 week before the first race.

http://www.summerseries.co.uk/

Points every 5, and no sprints for the first 9 laps, gives the commissaries a chance to go off, have an ice cream and catch a few rays.

We had a 100 lap race last year with 10 neutralised laps in between. This time round though we'll keep it simple and just have two 44 lap races. One points and one scratch, as well as shorter ones for the C cats and a few dashes.

If you paid for this week, you can race free next week.

It's the first race at HHV this year to be rained off, so not bad going really. Especially compared with our local "road" circuit at Crystal Palace, 3 out of 6 events rained off.

Infact, here's a flyer

Madison training tonight - perfect preparation

http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/sessions_and_training/session_schedule/madison.html

London Summer Series dates are out, including two training sessions http://www.summerseries.co.uk/

Starts in a months time!

Our points man is on holiday so it might be a bit late this week. We'll have the full set of flying 200 times after next week, so can pull them all together.

3 separate races, an A version, B version, and C version. This time round probably split on odd and even numbers.

Whoever's 4th (tbc - maybe 6th, I haven't decided yet) place rider beats the opposite 4th/6th place rider, their team's top 6 wins the points. The other team gets nothing!

So ride hard, but look after your team, and if you're up, sprint for the end!

Three opportunities to practice your madison racing beforehand.

Saturday 1st June - Hackney Open Season featuring a madison race
3rd June - Monday night training
12th June - Wednesday night track league

http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/sessions_and_training/session_schedule/madison.html

Most weeks the points breakdown of points races are punished so you can see just how many points you would have need to get into the top 6 of a points race. Looks like they haven't been passed over this week though. It's rare that 2 points would be enough, unless all the other points were shared between just 5 other riders.

Check here to see when handicap sprints and other special events are (next two weeks are flying 200m sprints).

There are programmes taped to the sign-on desk and every bench too!

Has anyone got a £10 off? Mine expired earlier than I thought...

Very impressive riding Dimi. It's rare someone breaks away in a devil. Much better to prove yourself in a lower category and then promote yourself than some of the people struggling just not to get dropped in a higher category.

The bike branding is probably a little unnecessary for polite company though...

All this talk of racing during training sessions. Here's what you want...
http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/racing_events/track_racing/novice_racing/

3 or 4 races each, prizes, no need for a racing license or membership of any organisation or club. Perfect introduction into track racing.

This thread is descending into RPM levels of pessimism...

The new track can be ridden pretty much straight after a downpour.

I've attached a scan of the course.

Cheers. Even after overlaying it onto a current map of the park I can't really work out where the course would have gone!

Dragging this back off-topic, here's the 1970 nationals at Crystal Palace.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/crystal-palace-cyclo-cross/query/cyclo

Could you scan that programme Andy? I'm sure most of the course wouldn't be possible these days but it would be interesting.

CX at crystal palace would be very cool! A few of us have ridden laps which would make a great course.

Rumors and speculation aside, here's the official line: http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/about/whats_new/index.html

"Cyclo-cross is becoming an increasingly important race discipline at Herne Hill"

Weekend training is expected to start first week of March, allowing people to train for Good Friday. Evening training should start first week of April - the same starting times as in previous years. The lights probably won't be ready in time to extend the training schedule until the other side of summer, so the calendar might be extended later in 2013, but won't be able to start any earlier.

In other words, training should start in a months time! Full details and ongoing work update will be www.hernehillvelodrome.com soon.

Clip from today's Herne Hill race. More of the same tomorrow. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151236999736700

The barriers to do a cyclo-cross race were too high? Sounds like a pretty lame excuse to be non-conformist.

Anyway, here's a video from Sunday's regional race.

South East & Eastern Regional Cyclo-Cross Championships December 2012 - VCL Rider Cam - YouTube