Cyclopark in Watling Street, Gravesend, used by Paralympic athlete Johnboy Smith and Olympic and world champion BMX rider Beth Shriever, celebrates 10-year anniversary

What started out as just a cycling track following the success of the London Olympics in 2012 has become a training hub for world and Olympic champions.

The Cyclopark, in Gravesend, opened 10 years ago as simply somewhere to ride bikes and skateboards – but a lot has changed since then.

The boss of the Cylopark Charitable Trust, which runs the park, Simon Jones, says it's been a "fantastic" journey to this point: "We are continuously adapting and changing.

"When we first opened, it was a brand new facility and just after the Olympic games. It was a road circuit, mountain bike trails, skate park and fantastic play park.

"Like any new project, it was the first of its kind but it was not sure how it would develop. It was a cycling track.

"We are a charity but to begin with it was not clear what we wanted to achieve. We were just a cycling facility and just bobbed along.

"Now we have set up clear goals of what we want to be and where we want to go in the next four years and this has opened up lots of doors.

"It has been a bit of a journey for us over the last 10 years. We have now started our new fitness programme to help make the community healthier and fitter. It is all really exciting.

"It has gone from a cycling facility where people would just pay to go around the track and hold events to a community hub and asset."

The multi-sport open-air centre includes bike tracks comprising a 2.9km hard-surface course for road bikes, a 330m BMX race track and a 6km track for mountain biking.

It now has around 1,400 members, hosts 86 different fitness classes, has a gym and physio centre, cafe, skate park and children's play park. It also hosts a weekly 5k park run on Saturday mornings.

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