Sundrive Track Team

We would like to welcome new club signing Greg Campbell and congratulate his on his fine performance in the National CycloX Championships held in St Anne's Park last weekend. He placed 4th in the strongly contested Vets category although he did at least taste success as they had mistakingly announced him as 3rd on the day and it did get us a mention on IrishCycling.com! Overall he was happy with his performance, as he felt he paced him self well and felt he gave all he had to give although in his own words it was quite slippy and he would have placed higher overall if hed stayed on just a bit more!

We have had two good days training on the track over the last two weekend although it was quite cold. Liam Walker commented that he had never seen anyone training on the track in January before, but if we want to achieve world domination, then we will have to put up with the cold!

Track training every Saturday 10.30 to 12.30 (weather permitting). If the weather is too bad for the track we will be doing a road spin of approx 2 hours duration from the rear gate .

Please note that as and for February and March, 'accreditations' will only be held on 1st and 3rd Saturdays on the month and come the start of the season proper, they will only be once a month. Full details of all sesions will be on the calendar on www.trackcycling.ie . We have to make this change as we need to spend more time upskilling the current track riders and move them all up to the next level.

Our Club road spins are going well and distnace and pace is starting to go up as you would expect this time of year.

We in the Sundrive Club would very much like to welcome three new senior members who have chosen to join us for the 2010 season. These riders have opted for Sundrive because even though the all posess road bikes, their primary interest in in fixed and track racing. Andrea Fagan and Natalie Grieve have transeferred from Irleand's biggest road club, Orwell Wheelers and we are very pleased to expand our female section with two such experienced track riders. Indeed these two riders ride fixed as their weapon of choice on the road too! We are also pleased to welcome ex Usher rider John Coates who has immersed himself in the Sundrive scene all year and has been a great help at training sessions when we are teaching new riders. We had our club sign on meeting earlier in the week and it relaxed and sociable affair and we we also happy that the riders who signed with us in 2009 were happy to share our vision of where we want Ireland's only Track Club to be a central force in promoting our chosen aspect of the sport and especially to continue the inrease the use of the track by local youth. This should be greatly aided by the interest that Stephen Gibbons (Lucan) and Alec Darragh (Sundrive) will stir up when they recommence the visitation of the local schools with the 'Track Roadshow' and their planned school track accredditations and training in January 2010.

Track riders featured prominently in the IVCA prize winners presented at the IVCA Awards Diknner in the Springfield Hotel on Sunday (29th Nov). Highlight of the evening was a special award presented to Terry Cromer in recognition of the Silver Medal he won at the European Masters Track Championship and a speech by former National Track Sprint Champion, Eddie Dunne on Irish Track Racing.

Terry also received the medals he won in the IVCA Track Championships as did Eddie who gave a masterful display in the Sprint. Terry and his wife Maureen were invited as guests to the dinner was very appreciative of the support of the IVCA in sponsoring the IVCA Track Championships and their support for our club and track racing in general. Terry was also honoured at the Cycling Ireland Dinner and as he says himself.............he has got great mileage out of that 500m!