Proud of their Mom...

The weekend was one full of happiness and accomplishments. Yeah...I mean in the dirt again.

You see...since my knee injury in 2002, I've stepped back a lot on jumping. I still jump, but I've developed that, "What if I land wrong and it hurts..." fear, as I've done that many times. So, instead of focusing on jumping, I've turned to work on speed and turns....and the wonderful excitement of making the best of ruts.

All this turned resulted in my minor (yet huge for me) accomplishment of holding a guy off at the Doc's the other day (saturday.) I entered the track and he came up behind me. I worked hard to keep him from passing me, and just when he'd catch up to me mid-bike, I'd shoot off this jump and take my space back. Now this jump is one that I had been working on for quite a while. It's really a nothing jump, but I almost went over the bars on it once....thus, that fear hit. Well, this time, I was so determined to stay in front that I didn't even consider my fear on that jump. Not that he couldn't have passed me on the double-double section...which surprised me...I just pinned the hell out of my throttle and stayed in front. Yeah...definitely a good moment for me, especially when it meant getting rid of that "fear." I feel I can start stepping it up some more now.

THEN...the next day (Sunday/yesterday) I rode at Zaca. I feel a lot faster at the Doc's after riding so much at Zaca with its advanced terrain and obstacles, as well as length. I don't jump and clear hardly anything at Zaca.....UNTIL NOW.

At the end of the day my wonderful sons approached me and told me to get on my bike and that they were taking me to the top of the track. They said I was "going to hit the 'double-double' up there, and that I wasn't going home until I did it." OKAY...They appeared to have more than enough faith in me to accomplish this, so I got on my bike, started her up and followed them up to the top.

First, Cannon had me watch him do it over and over a couple times, then Cooper actually cased it on purpose to show me that this double won't do anything if you case it. I don't know what came over me, but I rolled the first one, then pinned it over the second double. What a rush! The landing is a on pretty cool down-hill. After that, I just went right in and pinned it over the first double, then pinned over the second. A blast! Loved that feeling of rhythm and air! Then I looked back and the boys were strongly holding two thumbs up. My boys took charge and both discussed how they were going to get me over these two doubles...respecting each other's theory and as a result...I DID IT!!!

Yes...it was a great weekend!! Awesome time with my boys.

Racing is in the works again. We're working with Ed and Keith, assisting them with four races this spring. It's going to be bigger than the last two we held, with more sponsors. The boys and I are so excited. Again, the guys at Zaca: Ed, Keith, Ian and P.J. are so good to us....we're so happy to be soinvolved and help them out.

G-day!

(in memory of Paul Harvey--I listened to him when I was stuck in my hole of an office in MInot AFB, ND. Just learned he passed away this weekend. The old men in my office would have his talk show on in the a.m.....I just always used to wait for his "This Paul Harvey....good day" and then the radio would play MY music. His story was interesting..)