Ah, time for round #3.
I was feeling pretty darn optimistic when I signed up for races for Sunday. I signed myself up for 7 races. Not sure what I was thinking, it’s hot out and I’m still having some issues with my neck. It wasn’t not one of brighter moves. Needless to say, I didn’t ride them all, I did make it out there for 5 of them though. Not too shabby.
For the first time in I don’t know how many years, I made it out for the first practice session. Things felt so good out there that I didn’t want to do the others. Which worked out well for Kelcey. He took my bike out and worked with Mikey Shreve who was finally back on a race bike after something like 4 years.
I think Thunderbike was the highlight of my day, I got a great start, hit the first turn in Second, Mark made it around me going over the bump into turn 2. I stayed pretty close to him for 2 more laps, even thought at one point I might catch him to try and pass. That didn’t work out, I got a cramp in my right calf that was just too distracting so I fell back a bit and wasn’t able to make up the distance. There was about 3 laps where I was thinking that there could be something wrong with the bike. It kept feeling like it was missing, I also misses a shift twice. It took me a bit longer than is should have to figure out that the bike was just fine. That what I was feeling was the rear tire spinning up. It was kind of freaking me out when it started to happen in turn 6. That’s a really fast turn with lean… Even with that I did manage to put enough distance between me and the guy behind me, so that I would be able to take home 3rd for the race.
Kelcey took the bike out for Open Superbike, which should have been one of the 7 I did, but I was okay with that. It was already hot out and muggy, I needed the break before I went out for AmU. I ended up with some neck pain in that one so I came off early, once it starts to hurt I can’t keep pushing the limits as it will just get so bad that I can’t function if I do. Yeah, I of course have had first hand experience with it.
I had a great time in MW superbike, no hole shot this time, but I did manage to hold down 4th for better part of the race before falling back a spot.
In all it was a great day, the ambulance never had to roll and for me that makes it a perfect day.