Sadly, last year I only made it up to CO for one wknd and that was the one wknd the bike died on me. Go figure…. So that means I hadn’t been up to run any races really since the 4hr race in 2011. Or as I’ll always remember it … My weekend of epic insanity, see the Aug 2011 archives for why it’s named that.
Looking back at the past month, and more, I’m not sure that I really learned my lesson about trying to do too much. So starting with May 18th my schedule has been, a lil’ on the crazy side. May18-19 track day and race day. May 20-21 work 10hr shifts at work, May 22 drive to Salt Lake City, with a 3 hrs stopover in Farmingtion to change gearing on race bikes, May 23 work on race bikes all day so they’re fit to race for the wknd, pick up my bestie from airport, May 24 go to track to practice for wknd of racing, May 25-26 Go Racing!!!. May 27th sleep in, breakfast, start trip home, May 28th finish trip home with a stop again in Farmington. May 29 try to go dirt biking, but left the key for one bike at home. May 30-31 Work 11 hr shifts. June 1 take best friend dirt biking, June 2 track day at Napa, June 3 12 hr work day writing performance evals. June 4-5 work long days to make up for being on vacation. June 6 get new tires for the trailer since I had a flat on the trailer on the 5th Also on June 6th, after work drive to Denver. June 7 more track time at HPR. June 8-9 racing, June 10-14 work, June 15-16 coach MSF. June 17-21 work. Finally!! June 22 I have a day of rest.. sort of okay, not really. I have to re-gear and clean up the race bikes for the June races the next day. They both need oil changes and a bath too. I feel better now about not having gotten the updates on the site faster…. that’s a lot of stuff to be doing, and that is just the big stuff, not counting all the little things you have to do day to day.. like cleaning, laundry, shopping, brew Tuesdays, time with friends, packing, unpacking, truck maintenance, let alone cooking, eating, showering, and sleeping…… I need a house husband. LOL.
Which all brings me MRA races June 8 and 9. I had a ball riding the 250 for the track day on Friday. I would have liked to spend more time on the Daytona too, but Brian still had it trying to figure out the brake drag issue. I decided to ride the 4 hour endurance race Saturday solo.. I made it only 2.5 hours. But, I thought that was alright. I could have gone much longer, but I was concerned about being too tired to race well on Sunday and I had signed up for 3 races. I should have continued looking back at it and not done two of those races on Sunday.
I had to do the LOR, since it’s one of the main reasons I go up there to race. I love that race, it was one of my best and worst of the wknd too. I got a horrible start, you know it’s bad when a couple of 250s beats a 675 to the first turn. Then in that turn there is a waving yellow flag, so I can’t pass the 250s until we get on the back straight. By that time, I’m so far back that I figure I’m going to have to settle for 3rd to last. But, I want to see how many I can catch. I managed in 4 laps to chase down 4th place and pass her. Then we get a red flag.. I was so bummed. The best part was the chasing down of 6 bikes and making the passes with ease. Normally, I over think the passes and fail to get them done in a timely fashion, but not this time. I got them done straight away, as I caught up to the person. The same thing happened in the 250 race after that. I was super happy about it and even if I didn’t finish great, consider the weekend to be one of the best I’ve had.