National Championships

[sivat]

I just got home from the ADT Velodrome where the nationals are going on. The main race tonight was a 120 lap points race with sprints every 10 laps. I'm not sure if thats longer than normal, but man it seemed like it lasted forever. It was awesome.

[bitingduck]

120 laps is the official distance for the national championships, and we sometimes run them that long locally. Usually they're shorter because you're trying to fit 5 categories into an omnium with 3-4 races/category, and cram it into 3 hours or so.

[Dubbayoo]

I just got home from the ADT Velodrome where the nationals are going on. The main race tonight was a 120 lap points race with sprints every 10 laps. I'm not sure if thats longer than normal, but man it seemed like it lasted forever. It was awesome.

120 laps = 30km = 18 miles or so at roughly 30mph...so still shorter than most crts.

[bitingduck]

120 laps = 30km = 18 miles or so at roughly 30mph...so still shorter than most crts.

But with sprints every 8 laps at up to 40 mph.

[Dubbayoo]

But with sprints every 8 laps at up to 40 mph.

so like a short crit with prime laps.

[bitingduck]

so like a short crit with prime laps.

Every lap or every other lap. (every 2 km)

[velodrome.co.nr]

http://www.velodrome.org.uk/natsphotos.html

some photos from the british national track champs here