Aussie for the winter!

Originally Posted by VeloFlash

If you have been off the bike for seven years I take it you will be using our summer and track facilities just to train and not to compete. Perhaps, sporting espionage in view of our recent Olympic track success?

The Australian high performance track squad use Adelaide as their base so you could do no better than to train and observe there. Although I have heard they may be relocating to Sydney.

In Sydney the Olympic track facility (Dunc Gray) is open for training during the day from Monday to Thursday. There are two nights set aside where you can participate in derny/motor pacing. This was usually Monday and Wednesday. But Wednesday night is now competition (was Friday last year) that is open to all licence holding cyclists.

There is an outdoor concrete 333m banked velodrome at another location. They train there Monday and Wednesday nights and former gold medallist Olympian, Lionel Cox, dispenses free training advice.

We also have three flat tracks in the Sydney metropolitan area. These run around sporting fields and have minor banking (about 8 degrees compared to 42 degrees). Training is usually endurance based bunch 100 lappers (40kms).

If any open track competitions are being conducted they are usually held on Saturday nights. So you can be a glutton for punishment and club road race on a Sunday

Here are some links:

http://www.nsw.cycling.org.au/index.html

http://www.bankstownsportscycling.com/Track.htm

http://get.to/lacc

http://www.randwickbotanycc.com/Training%20Rides.htm

http://www.stgeorge.cycling.org.au/backup/newst.html