In less than a week from now I'll be doing some hot laps of this place at USA Cycling Elite Track Nationals...
ADT Velodrome, Carson, CA.
Going to be racing the Team Pursuit (4km) on Oct 1 with Danny Finneran from Rock Racing, and 2 other guys, then the Individual Pursuit (4km) on Oct 2.
Training has gone perfect this week... I lowered the front end of the track bike and wasn't sure how well that would work out, but I managed to tear up my Tuesday moto workout on Lagoon maxing out at about 41mph each way at 135rpm (53 x 14). The lower front end of actually more comfortable and no drop in power. One cool thing about racing on the indoor velodrome is that I can rock out the front disc and not have a repeat of the Co. Springs master nationals "oh shit, it's too windy to run a front disc" moment. Who's bright idea was that anyway?!
No huge changes over the setup that I used for master nationals other than using an adjustable stem to get my front end lower, different helmet that works better with my aero position, and maybe a reduction in gear inches seen as I've got no problems with high cadence. Lots of lessons learned after master nationals which I'll hopefully not repeat at elite nationals.
I'll have a world champion to race against in the form of Taylor Phinney! Ouch!!
