Day 2

So after, having a big sleep i was up again.

I asked the chap at the desk if there was a Keirin race on while i’m here. It turned out that there was one on today, so i jumped on the underground and off i went, it turned out that what the lad said was a “short journey” was in fact an hour and a half ride on the train with two changes.

We got there eventually and it was quite a sight, it was 100 Yen to get in which is about 75pence, we paid our money and went in. The racing was from 1.30 till 4.30 the first couple of races were the less advanced racing and i was pretty glad that we had arrived at 2.30 and just saw the S-Class elite riders.

The racing was fast and furious with lots of elbows and plenty of head butting

It was on a big 400m track with a special non slip coating so that they could race in the rain, like today

so we watched a fair few races, there is also some good video that i took but, i cant upload it at the moment.

There was also some roller racing which was good fun, i recorded the fastest speed of the day with 72kph

it was a good day all round and i would have loved to make a bet but the system was so complicated that a simple gijen like me had no hope of deciphering it. So as it turned out the whole adventure costed less the 1000 yen, about £5. so a good day out and good fun all round.

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