Post by Stephanie 312 on Jul 20, 2004 18:55:57 GMT -6
My first race was at Pine Ridge Raceway last year with Danielle Von Moos. We got there the night before and I was all up to riding and I thought it'd be no problem..........boy was I wrong! We singed up to race and I went bumming with Danielle around the pits to see who all was there. It was like 10:30 when we finally went to sleep and the next morning came awfully fast. When we woke up practice started and Danielle and I decided to practice with the 65's even though we had XR80's and were racing womens class. Practice was fun, but after the rider's meeting I chickend out big time. There were a lot of riders there and all I could think was "oh my god I'm never gonna last!" Well, somehow i got over it............I'm not quite sure how though. When it was out turn to race I was so nervous..I kept complaining I had to pee so that maybe my dad would just let me get out of racing. lol.....that didn't work. Well anyways the gate dropped and I stayed behind pretty far.lucky for me there was a big pile up and I just went around it and got a pretty good start for a first-timer. I ended up with 17th place out of 23 racers. Oh go me! ;D Same thing happend in the 2nd moto but I ended up with 15th instead so I got 16th place over all. That wasn't the bad part though...........I ran back to Danielle's trailer after the race to tell her what I got.........but I got there just in time to find out that she got run over by another racer and her leg was all skinned up..........i felt so bad. Talk about a happy feeling after the race...............