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For those who are coming to Newport your mean nasty Competition Secretary has come up with a mean nasty program.

General game plan is:-

11-12 One lappers, pursuits or some such, bike fettling, cheese dancing, lessons in the in-flight shooting of telephone directories etc..

Remainder of time, 12 - 15.30 to be races. Actual length to depend on number of competitors (for peace of mind of scorers 20min tops) but I was thinking to do 2 sets of races with a break in between (~30 minutes), both sets being points scoring with 50% in each race. We pay a lot for the velodrome so might as well get best possible use of it.

See you there

Edited by gNick

How about a sprint mini championship - individual, 3 laps, last lap timed .....

Looks like we might have a good turnout, and could be fun to run a sprint event for a change. We should have enough time for all who want to flog their guts out for three laps, shouldn't we ?

Just going to check the glue holding in my bottom bracket ....

Probably quite a good way of getting people used to the track and fun in a painful sort of way.

Might be best to do it as pursuits (possibly with more than one starting each side) to make sure as many as possible get a go.

Requires a certain amount of organisationing, getting timers and that sort of thing.

Might do wonders for your racing later though....

Are you volunteering to help organise?

gNick wrote: <snip> Are you volunteering to help organise?

Yeah, I'll give a hand. I'll bring the laptop with the results spreadsheet wot I wrote last year that was quite successful, especially since it seems we're going to have a Several of Events, as Dave would put it ....

Pursuit would be ok, as long as people are careful of each other, esp. getting on and off the track with the high speeds -  no     would be good ...

How about 1 volunteer timer each side with a post it note pad for the recording - time the racer, scribble on pad, stick to racer's forehead. Racer goes find computer geek, gets time put in. Next ! Conveyor belt racing

2 timers, 2 watches, 2 pads, 1 computer geek. We can do that, can't we ?

The only time I stopped and rejoined last year was to ask for directions...