Thursday, May 1, 2008

Start of the New Season.



Hi Everyone!

I'm starting this blog with how things have started out for my 2008 season. Lets just say coming back from an injury is very difficult and isn't easy. I had knee surgery in January and I was back riding a bike by April! I get very frustrated because I'd like to pick up from where i left off when i stopped riding after the WMA cup over thanksgiving last year. Lets just say I'm not there yet I'm dealing with a few issues that are making me jump through a few hoops to overcome it. Last weekend I went to my first race of the year, it was an area qualifier for Loretta Lynn's. So my dad and I packed up our van and made the 11 hour journey to " The Farm Mx " in Indianola, Iowa. We drove all the way Thursday and made it there about 10 p.m.. When i had been checking the weather it was looking quite decent for the weekend. Thursday with a few showers and Friday it said their were to be a few spotty showers so i would maybe have to deal with some rain on Friday for practice. That certainly wasn't the case, over night it rained over 6 inches, and had 5 Tornado's touch down around the area. So when we pulled into the track after leaving hour hotel they had told us practice had been cancelled. My dad and I threw our mud boots on and decided to check things out. For getting that much rain the track wasn't in all that bad of condition. When you scraped off some of the mud it was dry underneath so things would be looking up for tomorrow's race day. When I woke up Friday morning i decided to do another track walk to refresh myself, and things looked amazing, i was quite excited to go practice and start racing. So rolling up the gate for my first moto, i picked a perfect gate the rut was straight and heading straight for the first corner. and when the starting guy held that 30 sec. card sideways i was wide open, and pulled off a holshot! I made a few mistakes and got passed by two girls and all three of us checked out from the rest of the pack. their wasn't 4 sec. between us the whole moto i had stayed on 2ND place all of the moto and just tried to out smart her, but her 250 two stroke just pulled away from me up the hills, and that's what i was lacking. But all in all it was a good weekend. I ended up 3rd overall for Saturday, and that was good in my books. After my 2ND moto on Saturday, we packed up the van and started making our way back east to Michigan. My dad is quite the trooper, he drove the whole way home accept stopping twice to take a couple of cat naps. My dad is a great mechanic and i appreciate all the things my family do for me! They make alot of sacrifices just to step up my program and you won't find anything like that around here! I love my family very much, we have a great bond with eachother!



P.S. it's my sister's birthday today, so I'd like to give a shout out to her! Love You Sis!



Danielle!

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