The long awaited evening had come, and our club were able to use the velodrome for the 1st time. Twenty nine of my club mates and myself along with six coaches and the support crew lead by Justine finally made it into the track centre we had a safely brief and were put into our groups.

The place is very empty when there are no events going on and really big..

We got onto the track which was very exciting, seeing that team GB had won so many golds and broke records.. Bit like your local rugby team turing up to play at Twickenham very surreal.

We took it easy on our first session but we did manage to get to the top of the track and its a long way down for sure.