Had a bit of a rough start to the weekend. The bike was making a funny noise from the head of the engine and no one was really sure what it was. Been 6 months since I was on the bike and I hadn't really turned it on in a while so I couldn't remember if i had heard the noise before. Only got a few practice sessions in on Saturday since I spent most of the day tearin apart the airbox and a few other things trying to find the problem (to no avail). Finally decided to run it regardless and went out into practice. My last race ended in a crash down at VIR back in October. I did 23's in practice the first day which had me a bit worried about my performances for the rest of the weekend. My best last year was a high 17.
My first race Sunday, I got an 8th a did a 21. Not very good, but, it was a step in the right direction from 23's.
Monday things seemed to settle back into place as I did some 20's in practice and then in my races got a 3rd (o wait...no...no...I actually ran out of gas on the last lap and Todd got 3rd...that was the first and hopefully last time that happens), got a 5th, a 2nd, and a 19th? (it was the second of a back to back Monday afternoon and I ran off into 1...twice).
Not entirely sure what my best laptime was but I saw 19's on the sheet which is a couple seconds slower than last year but...for first time back on the track in 6 months...I was pretty happy with the results. Really would have preferred not to run out of gas tho.
Got to hangout and talk shop with Greytop, Todd, and Katie a bunch which was great. Lookin forward to VIR in a month. Also got my bike dynod for the first time which was kinda neat since Wade talked me into it.