12/20/2025
Track racing is a daunting endeavor. I do it occasionally specifically because its tricky, specialized and downright scary sometimes. Its intense. Its where my mind focuses because there’s nothing that demands your focus more than riding bikes as fast as you can without brakes, without coasting and with a bunch of old men you don’t even know. Blind trust or faith that everything will be ok when it definitely isn’t apparent. I used to be faster 10, 11 years ago which was more fun but 3rd in the Élimination and 6th in Points isn’t too bad for riding maybe 3 times on the velodrome this year.
Oh, turns out when you’re still going 30mph you still need the banked part of the track🙄After being eliminated in the élimination race I dove down too quickly and found out how slick polished concrete is and smacked my iliac crest.