I photographed a track bike race at an outdoor race track made of wood.
Some female athletes of the local bike scene in Stuttgart, met up to practice riding fixies - a bike without brakes and only one fixed gear - at this race track. For most of them, it was the first time to ever cycle on a track or to even cycle on a fixie. Next time, I would love to try that myself.
The track itself was very old, not illuminated, outdoors, but still covered by a roof. As it was pouring all day long, the old roof yielded and started to leak from time to time. None of that was a big problem though. The biggest photographic challenge was it though, to properly focus at bikes moving at a speed of 30km/h to 50km/h, as there was not much light coming in. No sun, no light. Hence, I installed my one strobe I had to add some lighting to the otherwise boring light. It also helped to freeze the motion a bit better. Every time the athletes took a turn in that one curve, they were strobed. Of course, I paid attention to not strobe them right into their faces.
I don't know if it fits the topic "speed" as it doesn't show motion blur, which you might expected for that theme. Anyway I thought about submitting it, since this photo received some quite good ratings on my fstoppers profile.