Today was an awesome day for me. At school I won the highest Principal's Award for Academic Achievement. I was one of the few kids to make it all three trimesters and I got an award for that, too. It felt great to see that all my hard work has paid off and that my grandma and mom making sure I finish my studies before I go practice or race was for sure the right thing to do.

Then this afternoon we had Wednesday night practice and racing and I got to hang out with my friends and race our butts off. Lake, me and Robbie raced total points and we had a lot of fun. Kelly Molles is the nicest man anyone could ever meet. He loves BMX and he loves our track. He put together the North Bay BMX Crush team to be fun and a cool group to ride, race and learn in. All my friends have been on it for a while. Tonight I asked him if I could join. Kelly was cool. He said," Heck, I've only been asking you forever. Finally!" I can't wait to get my jersey and now Lake, me, the twins, Robbie, Parker and Nathan will all be representing our track at all the races. Yup, its been a pretty good day. Thanks, Kelly.

School done for summer after today. Hope to see you at the track, soon.  

Rusty Bowl feels like home to me. This is where I started three years ago and they are the first people to teach me and my family anything about BMX. They've put in a new gate that's a million times better than the old one. They have the start hill in concrete all the way to the 30' line. I love this track because now that I'm an expert and know how to ride I can jump just about everything. It's so fun!
Lake came with us on Saturday which was so cool. We had a lot of fun and we were figuring out what we would do during racing to get us on top. When the gate dropped I pulled a muscle in the back of my leg and I just couldn't race. Lake did really well and got 3rd for the day. On Sunday I got up early and asked my dad to take me to the track again. I really wanted to race. If I could get sponsored by Icy Hot patches, I'd totally sign on. I drank lots of water and G2. I took a multi-vitamin for the first time in my life. We put on a patch and I stretched and stretched. I felt really good. Robbie and Frankie got 1st transfer, me and Puckett got second. When it came time for the main, I was ready. I got the best gate and got the hole shot into turn one. My new Troy Lee's got stuck in my chain and well... I got 4th. Mom made me and dR these cool No Whining plates for last year. I didn't whine, but I was pretty bummed. Not too bummed to congratulate my friend Parker for going Expert, though! Oh well, that's racing!