FROSTY
15th January 2006, 23:42
I almost diddn't make the meeting at all. The fingers on my left hand got crushed and my index finger wasn't working. Big deal i thought--yea --try working a clutch under heavy brakes with fingers that dont work.
Basicly I was riding extremely badly most of the day with my whole arm throbbing like a bugger. race one id had my hand on ice for half an hour so I spent a lap and a bit in second place.-then I made an incredible number of mistakes -muffed gear changes -so bad the back wheel was hopping 150mm in the air. -I finished in 6th place but pretty discusted with myself -so many really stupid mistakes cost me a lot of places.
Trumby came to the rescue with some medical ice packs that I could wrap round the hand.
Doogal put me back on track and I decided to ride around the problem--mostly the pain under heavy braking whilst using the clutch. By not going down to the braking points as fast I was actually able to do faster laps because i was able to focus on my riding the rest of the lap.
second race and I held onto the guy in fourth place and pass him three times before i mucked up a gear change into the right hander and lost 4 bike lenths and a place. I finished in sixth again.
I took some Panadol and soaked my hand in ice to get the fingers working.
Something must have helped because from flag drop i got a blinder of a start and rode like I should have been riding all day.
I had a ding dong battle with a guy on a RGV250 but in the end I must have wanted it more because he dropped back.
The bike was sliding pretty consistantly so I was happy
That race I finished in third place --I was pretty stoked with that.
lap times in the 44's fairly consistantly too
Thanks to Trumpyfor the ice pack
thanks to Madduck and dougal who really came through for me-Doing the mechanical stuff I couldnt..
and doogal for getting me refocussed.
Basicly I was riding extremely badly most of the day with my whole arm throbbing like a bugger. race one id had my hand on ice for half an hour so I spent a lap and a bit in second place.-then I made an incredible number of mistakes -muffed gear changes -so bad the back wheel was hopping 150mm in the air. -I finished in 6th place but pretty discusted with myself -so many really stupid mistakes cost me a lot of places.
Trumby came to the rescue with some medical ice packs that I could wrap round the hand.
Doogal put me back on track and I decided to ride around the problem--mostly the pain under heavy braking whilst using the clutch. By not going down to the braking points as fast I was actually able to do faster laps because i was able to focus on my riding the rest of the lap.
second race and I held onto the guy in fourth place and pass him three times before i mucked up a gear change into the right hander and lost 4 bike lenths and a place. I finished in sixth again.
I took some Panadol and soaked my hand in ice to get the fingers working.
Something must have helped because from flag drop i got a blinder of a start and rode like I should have been riding all day.
I had a ding dong battle with a guy on a RGV250 but in the end I must have wanted it more because he dropped back.
The bike was sliding pretty consistantly so I was happy
That race I finished in third place --I was pretty stoked with that.
lap times in the 44's fairly consistantly too
Thanks to Trumpyfor the ice pack
thanks to Madduck and dougal who really came through for me-Doing the mechanical stuff I couldnt..
and doogal for getting me refocussed.