Hello velo!

Posted on February 11, 2012 Updated on February 12, 2012

So, with butterflies in my stomach, I got myself out of bed at 6am, no mean feat in itself, and headed to London for the training day ahead of the London World Cup Track event which is serving as a test event for the main event this summer.

And what a morning it was. The plan to ride the motorbike to the velodrome was changed to driving my wifes car to a tube station as I thought the temperature may be too low for safety and I was right, -10deg on the way down and patches of fairly thick freezing fog.

Amazing sunrise though, can’t complain about that.

I can’t detail to much about the role for obvious reasons but I can say that the team in charge and the other people volunteering are all fantastically committed people, volunteers or staff. We were treated really well and introduced into the event so well you’d though we’d done it before. I now know what Im going to be doing over the next week and possibly the main event and am really looking forward to it.

Get home about 8 tonite but I’m sure I’m not going to be the last one home, met some people from Leeds and Manchester who travelled down for the day, like me they will stay closer with friends for the weekend though.

Few pics from the day….that Velodrome if truly spectacular!