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Northbrook Women's Clinic - May 30th

Francine Haas' popular introductory track clinic for women is returning for 2009! The clinic will take place from 830AM-noon on May 30th at the Ed Rudolph Velodrome in Northbrook. The cost is $15 without a USAC license and $10 with a license. If you are a woman interested in track racing or know a woman who may be interested in track racing, then come to the 2009 Women's Clinic! Francine is not only one of the strongest local racers, she is also one of, if not the, nicest racer in Chicago.

Here's a link to the flyer.

The Keirin - Dick Lane Veldrome - May 9th

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Local racer Josh Ryan (Bouledogue Tout Noir) has been invited to a 12-rider Keirin Invitational, sponsored by Kazane and local Atlanta shop No Brakes, being held on May 9th at the Dick Lane Velodrome in Atlanta. Josh will be racing against some of the best locals (Elite and Masters National & Masters World champion Steve Hill and Joe Eldridge) and other standout riders from across the country (Lanell Rockmore and Collegiate National Sprint Champion David Espinoza). Josh will also be competing in Friday's Need For Speed Sprint Tournament. Flyers here for Friday and Saturday.

Josh has been overheard saying that he's still in strength phase and not to expect too much from him. Despite Josh's performance caveat, we here at Chicago Track Racing want to wish him the best! Go Josh!

Hellyer - American Velodrome Challenge

Elite Women/Men and Masters Men
June 26th and 27th, Hellyer Velodrome - San Jose CA.

$1000 first place races:
Women's Points Race
Men's Keirin
Men's Points Race

$14400 in prize money guaranteed (and maybe more!)

See attached flyer and check out Hellyer's page for prize breakdown and contact info.

Chicago 2016 - Velodrome Part of Park Legacy?

If Chicago gets the Olympic bid this October, we will potentially be able to boast of a world class, permanent indoor velodrome within the city limits. Unfortunately not everyone shares our enthusiasm for track cycling.

From Chicago Public Radio's coverage of a Chicago Park Legacy forum (full coverage here)
TRANTER: The legacy projects as they currently proposed are going to be harmful to the parks. A velodrome in Douglas Park - I mean who is going to use - number one, no one uses a velodrome in the city of Chicago.

There is a comment section for this piece.

Why not state your belief in person? There will be additional meetings (thanks Jeff for informing us):
Douglas Park meeting April 21 @ 5:30p.
Washington Park meeting is April 18 @ 9a.

If anyone knows the locations of the meetings let me know and I'll update the blog.