The Georgia State Junior Track Championships are coming up quickly, as they are to be held on Saturday June 1st. The race flier is all together and posted online as is all of the other pertinent information. As always, the event is open to riders of any state, but state championships will only be awarded to riders from Georgia in the omnium in each of the available categories. Read all about it:

Event page: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/pages/juniorchamps.html

Race Flier: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/sites/default/files/13juniorchampsflier...

The Ride of Silence is being held tonight, Wednesday 5/15 at 7pm at locations worldwide. The rides are held to honor our fellow cyclists that have been injured or killed on the roadways, to raise awareness of cyclists being on the roads and to ask that we all share the road.

As part of the event we will be running our regular warm-up pacelines in silence to honor our fellow cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling. We encourage everyone to wear a black arm-band to show their support of those cyclists.

http://www.rideofsilence.org

The EPVA would like to thank everyone for coming out over the weekend to enjoy the races. We would especially like to thank Ethic, Inc. and Maxxis tires for their sponsorship of the events, all of our spectators that stuck around with us on Saturday night, only to be disappointed again by more rain. And to all of our racers, especially those that traveled for making the trek, a huge thank you. But the biggest thanks as always to all of our great volunteers, without whom we would not be able to host such great and smoothly run events, so to all those that helped out and help out the velodrome on a consistent and regular basis, THANK YOU!!

Kevin Mansker blazed around the track last night to take his 12th lifetime track record. Kevin rode a blistering 10.727s to beat the previous record by 3 tenths of a second. Matt Baranoski came within a hairs breath of breaking the record also, riding 11.1 in his 200m. Should make for some great Keirin racing tonight! See all our record over here: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/pages/records.html

Without further ado, here is our wonderfully tasty looking food menu courtesy of www.cakehag.com :

Chicken Nachos with black beans, cheese, fresh pico de gallo and sour cream- $7.00

Roasted Veggie Wrap- Roasted Red, Yellow and Orange Bell Peppers, Red Onions, Yellow Summer Squash, Zucchini and Portobello mushrooms in an Asian marinade on a Whole Grain wrap-$7.00

Grilled Coconut Chicken Sandwich- Coconut marinated chicken grilled and topped with an Asian slaw on a Hoagie Bun- $7.00

Keirin Taco Plate- With your choice of either chicken or pork, in a corn totilla and topped with a Fresh cilantro and veggie slaw and a side of Veggie Lo-Mein-$9.00

Veggie Lo-Mein as a side w/ a plate is $2.00 or an order by itself is $4.00

Beef Hot Dogs w/ all the Fixin's
Fresh popped Pop Corn
Assorted cupcakes
Brownies and Brownie sundaes
Velo Popsicles
Batdorf & Bronson Iced Coffee/Latte
Soda, Gatorade and Bottled Water

Courtesy of Ethic, Inc.:

GET A PAIR OF FREE TICKETS FOR THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE TO ENTER!
COMPLIMENTS OF ETHIC*

Come to the upcoming Pro Race Series - Ethic Inc presents the Keirin - as our guests.*

Go to their facebook page, like them and click on the entry form below and they will email the first 100 submissions tickets for you and a guest to enjoy the races on Saturday.

As an added bonus, head over to the merchandise table and say "GO WHIZ!" (with enthusiasm of course) to support Ethic's own Wayne "The Whiz" Whitesides and get your very own Ethic tshirt!** Then don't forget to cheer for Wayne
*Limit one pair of tickets per group, 100 free tickets only.
**Free Ethic tshirts until they run out. First come first serve. Sizes based on availability.

We've got the field set for the Keirin coming up this saturday. Headlined by two time winner, Matt Baranoski, other favorites include Kevin "The Omnster" Mankser, The Jamaican Sensation Oneil Samuls, "Kryptonite" Kyle Knott and Thomas "The Clown" Brown. Some of our local heros will include The CHAZ, Twotone, Wayne "The Whiz" Whitesides and "Nitro" Joe Marshal. Check it out right here:

Due to the rain we are cancelling both of our Youth Cycling League sessions, and our Monday Night FIT class.

We are looking for a few folks to help out with various tasks that we need taken care of at the Keirin. If you think you can help at any point during the day, either setting up from 11am-1pm, or afternoon or evening shifts during the event, please let us know, jeff@dicklanevelodrome.com

This week we will be featuring the first of two Working Mans Two Day races at the velodrome. Tuesday and Wednesday races this week will feature a two day omnium and madison, with categories including: Madison, A/B, B/C, and D category. All categories will race both days, and the full schedule can be found over here: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/pages/workingmansmadison.html

Due to the rainy weather, we are cancelling todays womens class. We will try again next Sunday at 1pm!

We need to be sure that we have everyone team name correct in our system in order for the team points allocations to work correctly, so please head on over here: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/results/TeamResults.php to check if your team is correct. And a reminder that team points are only allocated on Wednesday night races, so if your name is not on the list, it may just be that you haven't competed in a wednesday night race yet. If you need your team name changed, drop us a line, jeff@dicklanevelodrome.com .

Here at the DLV headquarters, we've got some new caps in stock for the 2013 season! These new caps are grey colored and feature the velodrome logo on the front. You can purchase the new caps in the store over here: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/node/1550

We're also back and loaded up with Batdorf & Bronson's Brakeless Blend coffee for those connoisseur's so you'll be able to purchase coffee at the velodrome on any Wednesday evening at the races, or you can purchase online over here: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/node/1215

With our first 2013 Pursuit night coming up tomorrow(Tuesday) night, we've got a few things of note for folks:
- Pursuit nights(and sprint nights) are open to all riders from category A through to Cat. D riders.
- You'll race your eligible distances for a Time Trial, Individual Pursuit and your choice of team event, Team Sprint or Team Pursuit. The only caveat here, is that only A riders will compete in a 4km pursuit. All other Elite age riders will ride 3km.

We also want to let everyone know that you can put the word out that you are looking for a team-mate for a team event, over in the forum: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/forums/pursuit-night-teams . Go hear to get things set-up before each pursuit night to make sure that you are able to make the most of the nights racing!

With the success of our first Womens Training Program this year, we are going to be running another 5 week session of classes. We will be running thew second group starting this coming sunday April 28th from 1pm till 3pm and each sunday for 5 weeks from there, on May 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th. Full details are over here: http://www.dicklanevelodrome.com/pages/womensprogram