#velosolutionspumptrack

In a recent blog post, I stated that the Longwood Velosolutions pump track at Candyland Park in Longwood, Florida had opened to the public and it gained not only the BMX pros, but it drew in the media as well.

When I went to the opening on February 7 after school, I had no idea that what I was going to witness was going to get me on my bike again. It was really fun to ride when I went on the track a couple days after opening, because I loved it! I enjoyed it so much that I was going to ride it every weekend, and even had the opportunity of riding it at night... but it closed in one week.

The pump track closed on February 14, so the grass can have time to grow, and take root. Prior to the closing, the grass that surrounded the rollers was coming off the area around the pump track, and it didn’t look great when it did. Now, I have gone there on more than one occasion, to check out how they’re doing with sprinkling the water around the track, and it is looking better than before they closed it, because Longwood Leisure Services had planted new sod around the track and used a sprinkler to get the grass to hold onto the roller surface. The reason they have used a sprinkler, is because there was barely any rain this time of year in Florida, so they made the grass grow quicker by getting it wet with the sprinkler.

Longwood Leisure Services’ Chris Capizzi said in a statement on the Orlando Sentinel’s website, “We want to let the grass grow, and we plan to reopen it around March 31.”

I will be very happy when the pump track reopens. Hopefully it does reopen at the expected March 31 date, and not get pushed back further because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.