All Posts Tagged With: "dunc gray velodrome"
Track Racing – bruised lungs and getting schooled…
If you’re a trackie and living anywhere in or around Sydney, you’d have known that last night kicked off the start of the 2009 series of Race All Winter (RAW).
After making my ‘debut’ track racing last year I was itching to get out there again this year and enjoy the rough and tumble smash fest [...]
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20Jun2009 | gj | 1 comment | Continued
Race All Winter – Track Racing is Back…
Well, Summer has come and gone and autumn is more than half way gone… Which means one thing in my cycling world – winter track racing is almost here…
The Madman
If you’ve read any of my posts from last season you’ll know that I’ve raved about the enthusiasm of the bloke who puts on the track [...]
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30May2009 | gj | 0 comments | Continued
Jayson Austin breaks masters world hour record…
Yesterday for a bit of fun, and because I want to indoctrinate my children from a very early age, I packed the family in the Odyssey (yep, sexy me I drive a people mover) and we headed south to the Dunc Gray Velodrome.
Why? Well, Jayson Austin was having another crack at breaking the masters world [...]
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27Apr2009 | gj | 0 comments | Continued
Leaving skin on the track – a lesson in track-craft
I was a very lazy child. With a relatively large blessing of natural talent in terms of intellect and athletic capability, I tended to make excuses rather than apply myself. Laziness turned to avoidance and I remember long periods of time off school with faked illness (I even ended up in hospital when I was [...]
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9Aug2008 | gj | 3 comments | Continued
Track Racing – finding a niche
Last night marked the fourth outing for me to the Dunc Gray Velodrome for the Race All Winter track series. On average I’m getting there every two weeks – if I had nothing else to do I reckon I’d be there every week. A couple of friends from triathlon – Alex and Tamara – came [...]
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2Aug2008 | gj | 2 comments | Continued
Happy days : bleeding lungs and a bit of biffo…
Friday is always a good day – the week is closing out and the weekend draws near. Friday is an even better day when it’s a lead up to going track racing. Like a teenager looking forward to seeing the girl he’s trying to get it on with, I spent most of the day with [...]
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19Jul2008 | gj | 3 comments | Continued
Burning quads, lactic acid and baltic pine…
It’s Friday night again and the stars aligned to allow me to head out to the Dunc Gray Velodrome again for another night of the Race All Winter track series. Tonight was my second outing for track racing – if you missed the first installment, the report from the kid in the candy store can [...]
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4Jul2008 | gj | 1 comment | ContinuedLatest Reviews
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