seems Eastern might be a bit more together with their schedules. Carnegie haven't even got past April on their site!! http://www.carnegiecycling.com.au/index.php?c=Calendar
Nor have Blackburn: http://www.blackburncycling.org.au/c...track_cal.html

The guys a Southern seem pretty friendly, and definitely more so than Carnegie in the late '80s, early '90s -- the only people that spoke to me down there were the guys that took my race fee!

I first did a B-grade open age race at Carnegie (Sandown) in November, which was a bit harder than I expected (ave 43kmh), then I heard that the vets license was ~half that of an open age license, so I rocked on down there. My first vets race was A-grade, which was also a little harder than I expected, then I did B-grade, but that was a bit easy (I felt like a big, young bully, but I still couldn't win ), so I went back to 'A', but I wasn't good enough to do anything; I just sat in the bunch. At the end of that race I hurt my back, so I've been stretching like crazy, trying to lose some weight, and getting used to shorter cranks again (175mm) ever since.

I definitely plan to race again; it gets a bit boring rolling up and down Beach Rd every night, especially if I don't encounter any 'competition' for a few weeks. I'm waiting for all the fixtures to come out, then I'll see which courses suit me. I might join Carnegie and race with the young blokes if I like the look of the courses.