Track Sprints

Today at the track skills we changed what we were doing from motorpacing to Olympic/Track sprints due to a) The weather (34 degrees outside!) and b) They had a technical problem with the motorbike in that they didn't have a key for it hehe.

For women, its two teams of two, starting on the pursuit lines and racing each other. It is from a standing start and the person higher on the track drops in below the lead rider. The lead rider only does one lap before they peel off and then the second rider completes a lap on their own and then its over and these are fast and FUN!!! It involves quite a bit of communication with the person you are riding with, saying up for faster and down for slower.
I haven't done a start from being held by a person before so today was my first of these and at first I was more nervous about that than anything else, but we had good handlers so it was all good :)

Due to the heat we also had a bit of downtime today but it was nice to just ride around on the concrete at a slow pace as there is no air movement inside DISC and just moving that bit helped to cool me down a bit between efforts.

My back is now feeling quite sore from the riding today, even after stretching, but it was full on efforts from standing starts so it is going to put a fair bit of strain on my lowerback and if I am out on the track doing these things then I am going to give at least 100%. I have my regular osteo appointment tomorrow and there are only another two weeks of this course left, but it has definately brought home to me that I really made the right decision by following my osteo's advice to not do the ATB

I hope the people who started the ATB today managed to complete it and coped OK with the conditions, I was kind of relieved that I wasn't out there today with the strong northerly's and 34 degree temperatures!