After a long search for a suitable venue, involving members of several clubs, Glasgow Life & Scottish Cycling's Rab Wardell, we finally have a suitable venue for the Glasgow based grass track league.
The main purpose of the grass track league is a stepping stone towards training officials & encouraging participation for the new Glasgow Chris Hoy Velodrome in the East End, which is due for completion September/October next year. Learn the basics here!
The Venue
The racing will be held in Pollock Park from Monday 6th June @ 7pm. The park managers have agreed to cut the grass & mark out the course for us, all very encouraging. The area in which we'll be running the league has an incredibly flat lower level which will be ideal in dry weather & a good but maybe not so fast area close by, when we viewed this area it had been raining all morning and the area was dry, so there should be a place to run the events regardless.
Format
We envisage the league will run during the summer this year & next, the first 1 or 2 weeks will be classed as open training. Hopefully we'll have a number of volunteers come forward to train as starters, judges, timekeepers, bell ringers, lap boarders etc, plus we still need additional trainee track commissaires to come forward. Then we'll hopefully be in a position to run an indoor track league during the winter of 2012/2013 at the new velodrome.
All riders will be welcome, it's expected not everybody will have grass track bikes, but the condition of the surface should hopefully result in 'normal' track bike clearances being possible. If there's demand we could run some geared novice events.
Participation
This is really the unknown here, who would like to get involved as a rider, would be good to get the clubs & individuals to let us know what kind of interest and support the grass track league will have. Let me know at the email below.
Trainee Officials
We really need your help on this, the best venue cycling in Scotland will ever get is nearly upon us and volunteer officials are critical to it's success. You can be a valued part of this by getting involved now. See 'format' above for the list of ways in which you can help.
Get in touch.
Colin Bark ( WOSCA Track Secretary )
email: vortex.rt@gmail.com Email me
p.s. The next WOSCA meeting is on Monday 11th April @ 7:30pm in Bellahouston Bowling clubroom, next to the Bellahouston sports centre (opposite side from the bike track).
p.p.s. WOSCA stands for 'West of Scotland Cycling Association'
