Jen Crosby's Racing Blog

Friday January 12, 2007

Early start!

Still early January, but it's about time to starting getting things ready for the upcoming season.  The first race may still be a coupl e of months away, but I've got quite a bit coming up!

First, I've got a day instructing with Focused Events at Brands on the 21st Jan.  I had been really looking forward to this - partly because I'm excited about getting out and instructing again, but also because it's the first trip out on the bike in 6 weeks!  I'm a little bit apprehensive now though I must admit, as there's going to be rather a lot of quick racers there...  But, I'll have Red there for support too, she'll also be instructing, and quite of few of my friends will also be along., so I'm sure I'll be ok.

That whole weekend should be great fun.  The day before the trackday we're heading down to Lydden for the Moped Mayhem endurance races, which is set to be a whole lot of very silly and undoubtedly ridiculously overcompetetive fun!  The Lunatic Palmer Brothers will be there in force racing a beast of an AR80, so I suspect I'll be cheering them on.  God help those on track with them!    Then we're all off to stay at Pat Mill's for the night before heading off to Brands in the morning.

Before that, I need to change the oil in the ZXR after it's running in in December.  Not having a garage is a real pain for this as I just can't do it while it's raining.  I'm hoping this weekend will offer up some time to do it.  I really ought to give the bike a good clean too.  I've also got RaceLab on the case with my forks, and they should be done by the end of the month in time for me to put them in the bike and use them throughout February for testing.  I've also got Ben making me some new fairings (orange of course!) so the bike will hopefully look a bit tidier come the start of the season.

There's also some stuff already booked up for February - I'm going to the Focused Events Instructor training day, and also I'm helping out at the Rookie school for Bemsee.  I'm really looking forward to both, but in particular the Bemsee day.  It's only too fresh in my mind what it felt like to be there, how many questions I had, and how nervous and excited I was, and I'd love to help out with the new blood coming into the club.

And alongside that, I've been trying to get myself into the gym as much as possible.  I've the help of a good friend of mine, Keith, who is taking on the role of 'personal trainer' and generally kicking my arse into gear so I'm as ready as I can be for the season.  I've also finally got myself to the physio - a fellow racer, Sam Ball - and she's given me some exercises to do to help make my shoulder and surrounding muscles stronger.

So, that's what's going on...!  Hopefully I'll start having  a bit more to post about soon

( Jan 12 2007, 08:16:42 AM GMT+00:00 )

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