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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

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

Daniel Holloway - Hellyer Velodrome's rapidly rising star

Hey all, keep your eyes open for Daniel Holloway on the boards, he's Hellyer Velodrome's rising star and sure to go far, he and his partner Iggy just won the 200 lap race at Burnaby's six-day. and here's Daniel's blog for those who want to follow his exploits -

http://danielholloway.blogspot.com/

happy riding Daniel, and keep as much skin as you can!

Best wishes, the folks at TrackInternational

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Added by Martin Harris on January 6, 2008 at 8:04am — No Comments

The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman:

http://www.mgm.com/sites/theflyingscotsman/

is just as good as any of the other dramatized bicycling movies, rent it or buy it now it's really good!! Perhaps subtle or not so subtle in how it tackles Obree's struggles with depression/manic depression, but I wonder how many athletes struggle with that sort of difficulty, I'm sure many athletes or weekend warriors can empathize with what Graham's strugg

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Added by Martin Harris on December 31, 2007 at 6:46pm — No Comments

Hellyer Velodrome's New Look

Hi all, check out Jon Swanson's photos, they show Hellyer's great new look, helped earn them the 2008 US Masters Track Nationals, well earned and well done!! Check out Hellyer's site at www.ridethetrack.com, and join their blog, it's a very active group with some great riders; who needs an indoor track anyway!! :) Martin Continue

Added by Martin Harris on December 30, 2007 at 3:20pm — No Comments

"Hell on Wheels"

Man, I just bought "Hell on Wheels" from Lombardi Sports today, this is the coolest cycling DVD around, anyone who's in the least bit interested in cycling just has to watch this, own it rent it or whatever, just go out and buy it. Those guys just are awesome, honestly, and I have no problem letting go of my dream of becoming a pro rider, that's a level of riding beyond normal. Interested to get recommendations from others on good videos/dvds thanxs! Martin Continue

Added by Martin Harris on December 26, 2007 at 11:49pm — No Comments