The Detroit Free Press, which has one of the more memorable URLs, FREEP.com, recently featured the
Mike Walden Velodrome in Rochester Hills, MI and those who run it and ride on it. If you still haven't taken a ride on the boards, just listening to (reading) what
Maia Orabi (
Wolverine Sports Club) has to say about it should at the very least pique your interest. Having met Maia out on the track, her personality is just as infectious as her love for it.
Gina Damron writes:
And then there's Maia, the 21-year-old newbie with the red, scabbed-over scrapes on her knees to show for it. Maia Orabi (inset) of Shelby Township is one of the few women racing against the men.
"Like how a mosquito tastes blood and wants more, more, more," she said, "I'm like that with the track."
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