Los Angeles Velodrome Racing Association / LAVRA

Sunday Madison is a GO for tomorrow, 11am start! Two weeks till CBR #1, come get some race speed in your legs and have fun!

About this week’s rain, and the wet winter and spring we are expecting in Southern California…
…on the VELODROME “deluge” means something different! meet Pierre De Luge, famous track racer rumored to have built the first indoor velodrome to escape the RAIN!! Come pay tribute to this great man at the Carson Velodrome by getting certified to join our many training programs and fast races!! Pierre would THANK YOU!! (if this story were actually true, that is 😂).
Secondary rumor: Pierre De Luge sadly lost his first velodrome to a winter landslide, the roof caving in under the weight of heavy spring snow - gratefully, nobody was in the building at the time, but, when a crowd did arrive, they used the seats of broken bleacher chairs to slide down the hill onto the steep berms, creating what is thought today to be the first high speed sled run, and giving Pierre’s namesake to the sport of LUGE (again, repeat this story as fact at your own risk 😂).
But for real, folks, it is always 75° and dry inside Velo Sports Center and it’s a great place to do your winter training. You meet wonderful people and develop some incredible skills that you simply can’t pick up on outdoors.
There is a women’s only certification class starting this Sunday, January 8, and we expect to have a full spring and summer calendar of racing and clinics leading up to Elite and Junior National Championships in July.
Call the front desk at Velo Sports Center at (310) 630-2073 for more details about getting started.