Accredited!
After months of waiting and sprinting down to the velodrome every friday, the day of accreditation finally arrived. This was an all day accreditation which is intended for people who are regular track goers but can’t get to the spaced out accreditation.
First thing is it was surprisingly hard work, around 50 miles in total and you have to focus constantly, any break in concentration and you can literally find yourself on your arse. We all passed in the end but at the start it was mayhem, I’m amazed there was only one crash, people were diving around all over the track, shooting up to the wall on the corners, the difference in speed at various parts of the track was astounding.
Obviously me, being the track veteran that I am, made no mistakes. 
Or not.
Anyway, everyone passed in the end and now we can ride any session at the ‘drome. I really fancy getting into sprinting and derny riding but I think it’ll be a while before I get to that stage. The Thursday night SQT sessions have been recommended as the first starting point, the website says ‘for the not so fast and not so fit’ but I suspect that means ‘you will nearly get your legs ripped off’, rather than ‘you actually will get your legs ripped off’.
Then there’s the racing, that looks fun too. I think I’ll get a few SQT sessions under my belt first, maybe see out the last month of racing or something.
Anyway, I’m counting this as a 50 miler on my Vela, because it’s almost ‘Velo’.
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September 21, 2009 11:19 am
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By Simon, September 21, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
Hey that’s great Jon, well done
By badger dave, September 21, 2009 @ 8:51 pm
just read the quitted post well done a pretty impressive couple of achievements!
By donk, September 22, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
So you need to get a license to hit the velodrome proper? Did not know that, well done.
By samuri, September 23, 2009 @ 4:09 am
The bizarre thing is that anyone can race as long as they have a BCF race license. You don’t need to be accredited to race. The coach made it clear at the end about what we could and couldn’t do and the general jist was that we’d be allowed to go to more and more advanced and harder training sessions but do not expect to be doing any velodrome racing outside the winter league, unless the BCF approach you, he said with a laugh.