Always wondered what it would feel liket to ride the boards....

Riding on the veledrome is something that i have been meaning to do for a long time now. It just felt like a natural progression after riding fixed everyday on the street. Suffice to say that i was more than a little bit nervouse on the first few revolutions on the track. I have never been entirely comfortable with heights and therefore found it quite daunting to be six metres up on the top of the track. After awhile i perhaps got a bit cocky and started stuffing around on the steep sections winding up and down and turning steeply. This of course ended in my good-self sliding down the track with a severley damaged ego. We finished with a friendly handicap six lap race which i was happy to come out first in.

So, i have definatly got a taste for the wooden boards and look forward to starting to race when i have a few more skills.