Olympic dreams come True for Redlands High Grad Ng

"For all of his insatiable desire and natural affinity for the keirin, Ng also benefited from the discipline and healthy vegetarian eating habits instilled by his parents, who have become big fans. Josiah's father, Dr. Andy Ng, even bikes now.

Provincials is going quite well, i've gotten two medals!

First was Friday, got a Bronze in the Madison, which was an 'open' event. I choose one of the two Elite Women riders as my partner, so cool that we finished well. There were something like 8 teams.

Second was Sat, somehow i got another Bronze in the Keirin!!! Sooo close to silver, but got pipped at the line...

Also got third in the Madison Tournament with Rachel, earned us $20..haha

Four OA racers at the track tonite for the 'Epic Points Race'! Two in A, and two in B.

Emile and i roll out in a pack of 11, and it starts off rather slow, and remains much that way until the first sprint. Bob Cameron, our main 'threat' is off like a rocket, Emile is on him, and i blow through the field to get the 4th point. I keep the pace up through the sprint in order to try and drop a few people.

A good night for the guys in green! It's the first half of Omnium Week at the track. An Omnium is an event combining five events to declare an overall winner. Tonight saw the first three events: the flying 200m sprint, a 500m ITT (normally a Kilo, but no need to put people through that ;) and a 5km Scratch race (4km for the B's). (The Omnium concludes on Thursday with a 3km Pursuit, and a 16km Points Race.)

Another weekly race, Emile and i were there, tho so was Don Gillmore, whom i've called 'The Immortal'. He's insanely strong, last year he lapped the field TWICE solo in a points race.

The A field has been nice and big, about 10 riders tonite.

It was pursuit night last Monday at the track, i had it all planned out for myself -- get up to and hold 43kph. That's all i had to do, and i'd get a solid time. This was after careful consideration of the weather conditions and my fitness. That would get me a time in the mid 5:30's, which would be fine for this time of the year.

Did i listen to myself? Nope.

I started off, and by the time i sat, i saw i was going 45kph.

No prob, i thought, i just kept my legs spinning, no pressure.

Hey all, here's our Thursday night report! We had three in the A field, with Emile, Marty and myself. Marty wasn't feeling too peppy, so volunteered to work for us, and Emile and i agreed to defend whomever was off the front.

Tonite was the first Pursuit night of the year! A small group of us did 3K
efforts to begin the year. Marty rode against Mike Chandler, who's got a
lot of experience in this event, and was nudged out by 7 seconds. Mike got
a big lead on Marty, which he closed a great deal, but in the end Mike
successfully kept the pressure on.

My own effort was against Marcus, and i strategized carefully for this.
First, after racing him on Thursday, i know he's strong, but i'm stronger..
Second, he hasn't really done pursuits, so will likely go out too hard....

I filmed a fire spinning feature for NBC's "All American Summer" promo to air all summer long on NBC!