{"id":573,"date":"2016-07-08T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2016-07-08T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:30:36","slug":"velodrome-open-today-need-weekend-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Velodrome Open Today; Need Weekend Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>TODAY-\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>South Chicago Velodrome is open today from 10am until 8:30pm. \u00a0Stop by for any reason- to ride, help out for a bit, to say &#8220;hi&#8221; or to re-supply pizza or icy drinks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Carl will be opening the gate by\u00a010\u00a0with helper Jim showing up around 1pm. \u00a0Psimet rider and category 2 racer John Cline will come\u00a0around to lead workouts 3:30-7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Riding\u00a0will be partly determined by track surface condition and timing- there&#8217;s one hole to patch\u00a0(and some small fill-spots and screws to set) to make the track 100% rideable, otherwise it&#8217;s fully rideable below the Stayers Line.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">THIS WEEKEND-<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>At this point in time, no one is committed to being Gatekeeper Saturday or Sunday; I&#8217;ll update the SCVA Google calendar once\/if that changes. \u00a0We had about 30 visitors last weekend and there is interest from users. \u00a0It would be a shame to not open this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To sign up to help, goto\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/19_9qoMyok1_OjMaSETyNw3ajAZ3x5bSX-ataMkeYync\/edit?usp=sharing_eid&amp;ts=576db08c\">the scheduling form here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A couple events being planned (in the early stages) by volunteers are a youth Bike Rodeo and some\u00a0adult riding (non-track) classes.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also looking forward to July 21st&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligentsiacup.com\/schedule\/south-chicago.php\">Intelligentsia Cup South Chicago Kermesse Road Race<\/a>\u00a0(looking for more helpers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY-\u00a0South Chicago Velodrome is open today from 10am until 8:30pm. \u00a0Stop by for any reason- to ride, help out for a bit, to say &#8220;hi&#8221; or to re-supply pizza or icy drinks \ud83d\ude42 Carl will be opening the gate by\u00a010\u00a0with helper Jim showing up around 1pm. \u00a0Psimet rider and category 2 racer John Cline will come\u00a0around to lead workouts 3:30-7pm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}