Junior Track Cycling

Due to conflicts with other events, these will not be held on the scheduled dates of September 4 (San Francisco GP) and September 18 (other event scheduled for this date at Hellyer). The little thing in the upper right corner is incorrect.

The Ed Steffani Memorial San Jose Gran Prix will be held on Sunday July 31. There will only be separate races for juniors if at least six juniors show up. What this means is that the juniors will race with adults unless there are six or more juniors and then the juniors get to race against each other for a few races, and the rest of the races will be against the adults. This is a bit different from most races and there will generally be one race right after another race, sometimes with category or gender restrictions or age restrictions so one may pick and choose which races one will attempt. Prizes are ribbons.

I asked the promoter - although the flyer does not state this - juniors race for free no matter what. (There is still the parking fee for the County.)

Also, since there are so many groups racing, if there are junior only races, there may be a long gap between junior only events.

Click here for more info.

No announcement yet but ADT is starting a new free program for kids. I think they felt the competitive pressure from us. Just kidding.

From the two separate descriptions -

Student Cycling Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30 - 3pm Free Kids 8-14 years old over 4′ 6″ tall.

Student Cycling Program
Supported by the Amateur Athletic Foundation these lessons for kids 9-14 years is the first step toward learning safe cycling habits and possibly a future Olympic athlete.

Cribbed from fixedgearfever.com. I saw this earlier when I was searching the ADT site for a link but I am never sure if those long complicated links from www.homedepotcenter.com are going to be stable.

Steve Ryan has a scheduling conflict and will be unavailable for this session. However, we will still hold the Junior 10-14 training session on it’s regularly scheduled day (third Sunday) during it’s regularly scheduled time (2pm-5pm) and our special guest coach is scheduled to be elite rider and coach Matt McNamara. Matt has worked with athletes at all levels in all types of cycling and has a degree in exercise physiology.

Since the Hellyer velodrome web page is under construction, check this web page for information and updates.

We will be having our regularly scheduled Junior 10-14 session prior to the July 4 holiday. Steve Ryan will be out of town so this week we will have special guest coach Robyn Jensen of the Velo Bella women’s racing team helping out. In addition to racing bikes, Robyn is a track supervisor and personal trainer.

re:
I have not figured out how to edit the template so I can change the little blurb in the upper right hand corner so this will have to do.
Thanks to Steve Ryan for correcting the date in the upper right corner.