NMTA kicked off it\u2019s first event over the past weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember the last time that I had this much fun at an event.\u00a0 It was great to see Monte and Sam back on bikes after long recoveries from their injuries last season.\u00a0 I thought the sections that Steve set were perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had been thinking during the past couple of events that maybe I should consider moving up to the AMA class from Nov. I finished out the 2025 season in 2nd<\/sup> place, I was 2nd<\/sup> or 3rd<\/sup> for every event I rode, but I was worried about the lack of wheelie control, I know I really need it to be successful if I move up. As Mal and I were walking the sections on Saturday, I looked carefully at the AMA lines. After we looked the first 4, I was convinced that I could ride it and not hurt myself. (Which is going to be the main driver for if I ride up in AMA at other events.) The next 4 sections each had a split that shall we say gave me pause\u2026.. in other words scared me. I did get to see the trials master ride a few of them, seeing that made me feel better about trying them. I knew that I was going to want a spot for about 4 things, just in case I buggered them really bad. I admit I closed my eyes on the spooky down all three times in section 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For all my concern, I had a blast riding all of it. I did get a fair number of points, but I was still really pleased with the day. Besides having fun, I didn\u2019t paddle all of them, (just part of #4, I just couldn\u2019t get that down.) I cleaned a few of them, and I only got one 5, although I think I should have gotten at least more. I no longer offer up where I messed up to the scorers, unless they ask. I struggled with section 1 all three times, but I knew I could clean it, so 4th<\/sup> time was the charm. I should have gone back to a few of the others to see if I could clean those up too. Next time, the day thoroughly kick my butt, I was exhausted when I got home, more mental, but totally worn-out. Time to be more consistent in working out, I\u2019m going to need more endurance if I\u2019m going to do two days in a row of AMA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m shooting to complete all the event this year, along with setting sections for December. I\u2019m already off to a bad start when it comes to taking pictures. I\u2019ll get some next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NMTA kicked off it\u2019s first event over the past weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember the last time that I had this […]<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","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=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}