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Congrats to Daniel, good luck at the World's!

Congratulations to Hellyer's own Daniel Holloway who'll soon be on his way to the World's:

2010 UCI Track World Championships
Copenhagen, Denmark
March 24-28, 2010

Way to go Daniel, and good luck!

Here's the World Championship web site....

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Added by Martin Harris on March 9, 2010 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Winter Training: Faster and Safer Indoors? from NY Times today

I came across this in the New York Times this morning. We're lucky in California that we get pretty moderate weather year round (for the most part), though rain can really derail a trackie's riding in the fall, winter and spring, but what do others think of this?:

HELPING OR HURTING? Doing indoor training, unlike going outd

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Added by Martin Harris on March 4, 2010 at 1:29pm — No Comments

CHECK OUT THE CYCLING REVOLUTION WEBSITE

Check out the Cycling Revolution web site, Pendleton Revs Up For the Worlds and more.... Continue

Added by Martin Harris on February 24, 2010 at 9:40am — No Comments

Page Translator Tool

SFTrackie's a bit of a technophobe. But I figured out how to view the foreign language website pages for the "sixes": click on the link for the website (there's a few on our main/home page); right-click on the foreign language website page; click on "Page Info"; then click on "Translate Page into English". Hey presto. Cool Euro track genuineness, and I can read it too.

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Added by Martin Harris on February 19, 2010 at 5:06pm — No Comments

No Track News on Velonews??????????

Oh my, if I'm seeing this right, even Velonews has dropped track coverage from its website. That leaves FixedGearFever - and there's not much "Fever" going on there, come on Scott no news posted since 1/7/10?? :( - and us. What gives???? There's lots of track happenings round the world. Velonews and all are missing the boat show. Continue

Added by Martin Harris on February 19, 2010 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Frisco's LIberty High accelerates notions of P.E. class

Hey check this out...

http://friscoblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/02/friscos-liberty-high-accelerat.html

I wish I had track racing at the Superdrome for PE class when I was a kid! I could be a world champion by now! Instead I'm.....oh well. :) Hey have fun kids, it's a blast, and you might end up with thighs like Jamie Staff's (ok maybe not so great for a girl,

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Added by Martin Harris on February 19, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Not a sports fan? Oh, the joy and pain you’re missing - from Sports Business Journal 11/30/09

I really liked this Opinion article from this week's SportsBusiness Journal, gets you thinking about why we do what we do.... Not a sports fan? Oh, the joy and pain you’re missing Published November 30, 2009 : Page 39 Bill Gates was taking questions at Microsoft headquarters from an audience of the company’s top female executives. The first question came from a woman who wanted to know how, with three young children, Gates was able to balance his personal and work lives. “Well, I don’t watch… Continue

Added by Martin Harris on December 4, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

No Track Awards in VeloNews' 22nd Annual Awards Issue??????

I just sent this to VeloNews, any thoughts anyone? Dear Editor, did I just miss something, perhaps I'm mistaken and my excitement over the rest of the great issue may have caused me to overlook it - but did I just see no track awards in VeloNews' 22nd Annual Awards issue???? or maybe my issue must have been missing those pages, that must be it, whew, just when I was thinking VeloNews doesn't care about track cycling in the US. Road, Mountain, and CycloCross awards, but no track awards!!!????… Continue

Added by Martin Harris on December 2, 2009 at 1:05pm — No Comments

Why Parents Should Involve Kids into Sports

Learn about sportsmanship, sports book, qualities of excellent sportsman, sports warehouse, all online sport news and sports gear Online Sports News Continue

Added by rodpu on October 29, 2009 at 5:19am — No Comments

Hellyer's own Daniel Holloway off to Tour de l'Avenir for the USA team

Way to go Daniel, great work, congrats on making it there and good luck! You're making Hellyer proud and giving us weekend warriors inspiration. Good luck, from all of us at TrackInternational.net. Continue

Added by Martin Harris on September 4, 2009 at 9:52am — No Comments

Well there you have it, way to go Taylor Phinneyl!

Well, there you go, another World's, and completely different results - countries that don't have huge huge dollars going into track programs as Great Britain (and believe me, I'm a Brit and a huge fan on Britain's track program and Manchester and all) are trouncing Britain's athletes. But come on US-powers-that-be, it's mindset! We have great and committed athletes, but they need support and encouragement, not bosses who say we're never going to get there. Look at Daniel Holloway and Shelley Ol… Continue

Added by Martin Harris on March 28, 2009 at 8:04pm — No Comments

Some Power Training tips

Hi all, thought ya might be interested in this web site, learn more about power training: www.fascatcoaching.com some good stuff there. SFTrackie Continue

Added by Martin Harris on April 27, 2008 at 9:04pm — No Comments

Couple of websites that might interest y'all

Hi there, check out these two websites: www.thresholdpower.com and www.velobiscuit.blogspot.com The Track World's start next week, check out www.worldtrackcycling.com, www.manchestervelodrome.com, and www.cyclingrevolution.com SFTrackie Continue

Added by Martin Harris on March 18, 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Web site recommendation

Just came across this website - www.53x12.com - some good stuff there; anybody have any good website recommendations? MH Continue

Added by Martin Harris on February 10, 2008 at 4:35pm — No Comments

So You Wanna Be An Olympian?

Thought y'all might get a kick out of this one if you haven't seen it already, check out http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=olympianpartthree for the accompanying photos:

By Kathryn Bertine
Special to ESPN.com

Editor's Note: Just how hard is it to make the U.S. Olympic team? Does it r

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Added by Martin Harris on February 3, 2008 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Off to the Worlds

SFTrackie's off to the Worlds in Manchester end of March, I'll try to get some "live" updates onto here if I can, it's going to be quite a show. Anyone else out there heading to Manc? Continue

Added by Martin Harris on January 26, 2008 at 8:06am — No Comments

Chris Boardman series of videos

Check out the Chris Boardman hour record series of 5 videos just posted, gives some great footage as well as insight into one of the world's best trackies and what it takes to be a champion in any sport. Enjoy! Continue

Added by Martin Harris on January 26, 2008 at 8:03am — No Comments

Can the U.S. track program ever grow to be an Australian track program? VN & PM

VeloNews has an interview with Pat McDonough, final question goes like this:

"VN: Can the U.S. track program ever grow to be an Australian track program?

PM: No. I say that because we aren't government funded, and they are extremely government funded. They have seven velodromes in their country and they are all owned and run by the government. That's never going to happen in this country, but we

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Added by Martin Harris on January 21, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Six-Day site, calendar etc.

For those of you in the know, we're right in the middle of the six day season, with exciting packed events all over Europe. Here's a great site for the calendar, and links to the individual events:

http://www.uiv.dk/

Arnold Devlin has a great site at www.6dayracing.ca, some great history & photos;

You can also check out FatNick's site at www.fatnick.com for ph

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Added by Martin Harris on January 9, 2008 at 9:42pm — 2 Comments

Encino Velodrome & activities

Hi all, wanted to post this from Encino velodrome, thought others might be interested, check 'em out:

The racing's always been great when folks come down from Hellyer to
ADT or Encino, and I know you'll see alot of us "southerners" at Masters Nats and few other races at Hellyer this year, so I wanted to let y'all know what we're doing down south at Encino...

The Encino Velodrome 2008 race season will once again be split between
a spring "the

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Added by Martin Harris on January 6, 2008 at 8:14pm — No Comments