Originally Posted by
gsteinb
or racing. not a lot of nearby velodromes in the N.E.
This.
The year I "raced" track was 2009. Made a weekly trip to NH. I'd typically get back at 1 or 2 am, after leaving at about 4 pm (if I was running a bit late). That would be unsustainable right now.
Kisenna is about 2.5 hours each way. T-Town 4.x hours.
It's also a shallow track, 318m I think with 14 deg banking, former kart track. T-Town is 333m with 28 deg banking so twice as steep. At NH it's hard to stay down low, at full bore I had to back off in the corners so as not to launch myself into the surrounding swamp stuff.
As to training on the road, this area is semi quiet, and I may be able to find a loop where I can ride a track bike. The other thing is that I could probably put a road fork on a track bike and install one brake, and then do some tests/etc with less restrictions on traffic/busy-ness.