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Posted: Wed 13:17, 28 Aug 2013 Post subject: How Olympic legacy gave Calshot velodrome a huge b |
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How Olympic legacy gave Calshot velodrome a huge boost Daily Echo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
While the tight curves of the current track have tested the best since 1997, its predecessor was a national venue dating back to the 1970s and one which hosted World Champions.
Over the decades,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], countless nervous novices have also been catapulted around the dizzying 143-metre oval.
Chris Hoy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his 27-inch thighs pumping like pistons,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], won his sixth Olympic gold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], weeping as the Union flag was hoisted; Victoria Pendleton,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as cool as ever, powered her way to another gold; and the women's Team Pursuit broke world record after world record en route to the podium.
The telephone at Calshot has not stopped ringing since.
In fact, the velodrome, the only banked indoor venue in the south,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is now taking course bookings for the autumn.
Training sessions aim to slowly build confidence and begin with learning to clip cleated cycling shoes into the pedals.
Stopping a fixed wheel bike with no brakes comes next - a matter of turning the pedals increasingly slowly while resisting the urge to back-pedal or stop pedalling at all.
Steady acclimatisation to the velodrome's ramped banking follows,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Starting on the flat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], light blue "Cote d'azur" band,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the black "datum line" is the first target and then the red "sprinters line".
Further up is the blue "stayer's line" before the upper reaches beckon beyond.
It's actually colder up there and you get a good idea of just how steep it is when the bike plunges back down to the red line on the opposite straight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The wind whistles past your ears, the stomach relocates to another part of the body and it's difficult to remove the peculiar grimace that's distorted your face.
Within seconds, the opposite end curve looms and you climb once more to spin across the great divide.
It soon becomes ridiculously addictive.
Once the basic techniques are mastered,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a brave new world of slipstreaming and team riding awaits.
And,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], surprisingly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the senses soon casually accept that the tops of other riders' heads can be seen circling below at lower altitude.
The sleek Dolan bikes are not equipped with speedometers so I was unsure whether Hoy's records were at risk.
It sadly transpired I was outstandingly average,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the old chest wheezing like bagpipes after completing a seven-lap 1km effort. I won't lose sleep over it.相关的主题文章:
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