I’m late with posting, as usual. 😛 It’s work’s fault. It keeps getting in the way of my fun.
The first time in 9 years… yes, 9 years. The last time the clubs got together to do this was the year I got race license, so I remember it well. I know I keep saying that I’m not going to really race this year, but I had to go down for this event. It was how I started my racing career, it’s fitting that I take part in it this year. As I’m not sure sure what the future holds for me with regards to racing. I’m still having issue with my neck from the fission of the vertebrate in Nov 2014. I still can’t turn my head as far to the right as I need to when I hang off the bike to the right, I still also don’t have the feeling back in the finger on my left hand. It’s better for all of it, it’s just not back to where I really need it to be. Time will tell.
There was a great turn out for the weekend. I was thrilled to see it. I was really glad to see all the SMRI racers down at Arroyo for their first race weekend. I’m hoping it means that a number of the ASMA racers will make the trip to Abq for the July round. I did four races mostly just so I could get into the swing of things. I hadn’t been on the bike since our last round in Oct. That’s six months without being on the race bike, to jumping into the deep end of the pool.
Saturday I made sure I was ready to go for the first practice session since with the weather prediction for high winds and dust storms I was sure the day would get cut short. I wasn’t wrong either. However, the day was even shorter then I thought it might be due to a rider going down in the kink and the track having to close down while the ambulance transported them. By the time the track when hot again. the winds were such that I just called it, and got undressed for the day.
Can I just reiterate now how much I LOVE having this toy hauler and how awesome it is to be able to get out of the wind and sand!!!! Not to mention take a shower after having to stand out in that stuff talking to people. It was great to have a place to sit around shot the breeze for a few hours, with people and watch movies before calling it a night.
Racing the next day was great! Everyone put on a great show, there wasn’t any undue drama, no one left in an ambulance. In all I would call it a huge success. I didn’t really have any races that would have to call out. I was really pleased with how I rode. I was thrill to have Mikey give me a tow in the first practice session and tell me latter he was impressed with my braking into the carousel turn. I drop some time as the day went on, but could have drop even more with more practice time. I didn’t win, but I wasn’t last either. 😀