{"id":1470,"date":"2015-05-20T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2015-06-16T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:30:09","slug":"smri-race-1-may-race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/smri-race-1-may-race-day\/","title":{"rendered":"SMRI May Race Day (round #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, race day. \u00a0I just love the smells on race day, there is nothing better than fresh rubber and race fuel.<\/p>\n<p>It proved to be a rather busy day, \u00a0I decided to ride in as many classes as I could just to see how I&#8217;d feel. \u00a0Right now my neck issues are the limiting factor. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been able to work on the fitness, I&#8217;m not quite\u00a0back to where I was prior to the wreck in July 2014. \u00a0I still have work to do to get back to that point. \u00a0\u00a0I was happy with my riding until I looked at lap times&#8230; I finished up the weekend about 4 seconds off where I should be.<\/p>\n<p>Out of all the races I did that day, I think I rode in 5 races, the highlights for the weekend were getting good starts. \u00a0For whatever reason, I have great starts or really bad ones. \u00a0This day I had all good ones, I was surprised. \u00a0So were all of the guys who ended up behind me. \u00a0I managed to hold off people in each one of the races, I actually love that I&#8217;m super hard to pass even if they are faster, and lets be clear. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m riding bad, I&#8217;m smooth, and I can exit a corner REALLY well. \u00a0Thank you Dennis for teaching me how to run defensive lines so like you I could be 10 feet wide on the track. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The best part for me was that my neck wasn&#8217;t hurting too much at the end of the day. \u00a0It would hurt some while I was on the track, it gets more painful with each lap, so I get slower the more it hurts. \u00a0However, it wasn&#8217;t nearly as bad as it was in March when I went to Inde. \u00a0It&#8217;s also not taking days to stop hurting. \u00a0All good things. \u00a0With any luck by the end of the summer, it will be just about back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, race day. \u00a0I just love the smells on race day, there is nothing better than fresh rubber and race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}