Welcome To The Big Leagues
Sorry it has been a while since I updated this, just been busy getting ready for Nationals!
I just arrived back home from my trip down to Sacramento, California where I raced my first Big WMA National.
Talk about Intimidating! I was so nervous going down to the starting line racing against the girls that I look up to (Jessica Patterson, Tarah Gieger, Sara Price, and Ashley Fiolek) Our moto being AFTER the MX1 and MX2 motos as you can imagine was a little more than ROUGH!
The first Moto was up, and I got a really bad jump off of the gate, so I started in dead last, and worked my way up to 21st. These races aren't like anything back home, if you get a bad start you are pretty much screwed to get a good position because all of these girls are same speed, and faster than I am. I definitely wasn't riding like myself, I was riding tight and was just overwhelmed by everything.
Moto 2 came around, this time I tried to not put so much pressure on myself, I got a good jump off the gate, but still ended up at the back of the pack. I felt alot better this moto, working myself up to 20th, giving me 1 point and a 23rd overall.
Going in to this race I wasn't expecting to do anything spectacular, I had been around these girls when I was in California before so i could kind of set myself up for where I stood in that field. I wanted to go for the experience and to race with faster girls, and my main goal was to get some points.. (which I did! 
) now that I got the jitters out for that round, I know I am capable of much more for the rounds to come!
I also want to point out how awesome it is to see so many WMA women under factory rigs! There was at least 10 girls getting factory support down there!
P.S.. out of all the people there we were pitted right beside Ryan Lockhart and Eric Nye.. It was good to be around people we knew!
Thanks to everyone helping me out this year:Schrader's, Yamaha, GYTR, Yamalube, Troy Lee Designs, Gaerne, Oakley, Pirelli, Perform X, Yorkton Dodge, Supertracs,Lime Nine Graphics, Orb Clothing, and of course Dad!
so that is me looking at the jump, and YES that is CHAD REED!!!! (in the scott sweater)
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