Junior Track Cycling

Friday night saw a good turnout of juniors, with dedicated races for the youngest riders and Cat 1, 2, and 3 racing for the more experienced.

There are a lot of pictures today, largely because I have a new camera at last. You are seeing only a small fraction of the shots I took, which filled a 1-GB memory card. In the learning process some of the pictures were poorly exposed and required heavy post processing, but this should happen less often as time goes on.

Matt Martinez promotes the Friday series, announces, and makes sure there is a chance for juniors to race.

Kim LaFleur warms up with her aero bars.

Canaan and Claire warm up before a 10-13 race.

On Fridays the flag goes up. The cat 3 pack is about to get the whistle for their first race.

Young juniors in the ready. Separate races were held for the track bikes and others.

The smallest rider, but just as ready to go.

BMX geometry, but check out those skinny tires!

The 10-12 juniors in action - Andrew, Canaan, and Claire.

Steven Woo, track supervisor for the 10-14 training sessions enjoys the show.

Jim Ryan was off the front for four laps in the 1/2 point-a-lap.

Kim LaFleur on the way to qualifying first for elite nationals in the 500m TT, is the center of attention.

Tinga Turner and Daniel Holloway cooperated to gap the pack in the win-and-out. In this case, Tinga won and Daniel got eaten up by the pack before the second-place sprint.

Matt Mosby got a haircut at Tuesday practice. Nice job, Ben.

Matt Mosby make sure no one is coming up too fast in the miss-and-out.

Matt, Jim, and Daniel between races.

Kelly LaFleur took a night off the bike, but still kept busy.

Kim LaFleur wins the women's scratch race.

Jim Ryan (on the Rock Lobster) early in the long scratch race - a nationals qualifier.

Wednesday had a decent turnout of juniors, but after just a few heats the rain, which had threatened all day, finally started. It wasn’t much, but the track was looking slick.

Daniel, Daniel, Steve, Dawn, Jim, and Ben kill some time before the racing is officially canceled. (Okay, we’ll call Steve and Ben honorary juniors.)

By the way - the way images were displayed before will probably return - to make it easy I have to port some WordPress modifications to the new version.

This site has just made a change of physical location. If you see this message, you are using the new host. There will be small changes, but this should be mostly the same site you are used to. Here’s what I expect:

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• The site will be running on a newer version of WordPress, but older versions of PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
• For a few hours you may get either the new location or the old one, depending on DNS updating issues.
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• Some features, such as the “Top Searches” list will be missing until I port their code to the new system.
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Small changes to the site are to be expected, but if you notice broken features or links on the new site, and especially if the site becomes slower or less reliable, please leave a comment.

Update: thanks to Jeff Moore, here are the results in PDF form direct from Encino.

Congratulations to Kit Karzen who won the 13-14 Men’s Omnium at the Southern California/Nevada state championships on Satuday (June 4). He also reports a third in the California Team Sprint matches.

Results of the 10-12 Women's Omnium race at Junior Southern California/Nevada Championships, 2005-06-04 to 2005-06-04: