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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Spring Nationals 2008
Saturday Practice: I was feeling good, enjoying the track. I found a few places to manual and jump during the race. I was going to practice the jumping in the third straight. I shut it down in the first straight then turned it on in the second. I was coming into the second berm fast, ready to jump in the third stright. I caught up the the person in front of me but he was midway up, so I was going to take the inside. He dove down about the time that I got sideways for the berm. I couldn't do anything so we crashed, reopening the one-week scabs all the way up my right arm. Other than that I was ok. Saturday Round 1: The reason why I did poorly. I wasn't going my hardest because I wanted to save it for my next qual. and main. I was in third behind what is now an expert and my friend that I can usually beat. I wasn't planning on manualling the last obstacle in the second straight, but I did for speed. I was manualling it perfectly, standing forward to bring it down, but I looped out and will have a video of it very soon. I landed on my spine and immediately thought that I was paralyzed. I was unconcious but still felt a tingling all over. I was run over and I have tire tracks on my side. NO HARD FEELINGS TO THE GUY THAT RAN ME OVER. I semi-conciously crawled off the track. I remember seeing the white line but not remembering what it was there for. Somebody said: "A little further, a little further!" and I guess I kept crawling off the track before the next moto hit me. I don't remember what I did right after that, but I eventually got up and rode around the rest of the track. I immediately sat down and my coach got the EMT's for me. I ot up and walked to their shed thing. They cleaned the scrapes on my back and I got ready for my next qualifier. Saturday Round 2: I made it... I got second with bad whiplash and taking it very slowly. Saturday MAIN I talked to my mom before racing. She didn't want me to race, neither did my coach. He made me promise not to try hard, so I'm pretty sure that I just coasted most of the track. Sunday Round One: My mom and my coach didn't want me to race even so I sat down out of the gate and didn't try at all. Sunday Round Two: I actually raced hard-only time I did somewhat well all weekend. I raced hard and got first. My coach said that I was 4 or 5 bike lengths in front of everybody else, and I heard from others in my moto that I killed them. Sunday MAIN I was going to try hard but I hit the gate AND I pulled out of my clip. I saw this as an omen and decided that I shouldn't try due to my injuries; so I stayed behind everyone.
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