The Masters National Track Championships are a serious milestone and easily one of the best meetings of the year for so many reasons and I really enjoy being a part of the action across a packed three days of racing. 

The National Omnium Series was my introduction to track racing back in 2005 and now in my 10th year of riding it, I cannot believe how much has changed…

I first rode the National Omnium Series back in 2005, so this year marks 10 years of track racing for me. 

The National Series heads south and attracts a big field of 28 riders to contest this omnium at the 1948 Olympic velodrome (in glorious weather too).  

The Bordeaux-Paris style meeting at Reading is a great season opener as it combines a scratch race from which the top nine qualify for the Derny paced final…

I tend to suffer a serious dose of self-doubt before the first race of the season, so it was with some trepidation that I packed my kit for the Bordeaux-Paris (style) meeting at the Reading Velodrome over the bank holiday weekend. 

TORQ fuelled track cyclist Jan Birkmyre takes up the challenge to be the 2014 “Hack on the Track”; a day of track racing sponsored by Halfords, to find the fastest cycling journalist and launch the Boardman track bike. 

Janet Birkmyre reflects on the successes of the 2013 season; eight months of racing from May until the end of December, taking in National Series events, the British National Track Champs, plus European and World Masters’ Championships as well.  

TORQ-Fuelled elite track cyclist Janet birkmyre takes on the National Derny Championships in Newport a race which involves being motor paced by a modified motor cycle around a track, here is Janet’s account of the race where she took a silver medal.  

A couple of weeks after winning a national track cycling title up against riders half her age (see here for report https://www.torqfitness.co.uk/news/national-track-championships 

Janet Birkmyre is a class act on the track, with a plethora of titles in the discipline. 

TORQ-fuelled Janet Birkmyre is a legend. 

Janet Birkmyre is a world record breaking, British, European and World track cycling champion. 

TORQ Fuelled Janet Birkmyre has this year dominated the World Masters Track Champ’s, held in Manchester a few weeks ago.