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I had a blast at the TTDs this week. There was both wet and dry track time on Tuesday, which proved to be beneficial. During the first part of the day I kept things nice and slow, made a bunch of observations trying to pick up landmarks for potential reference points, and worked on finishing my braking early to set my corner speed just right. Even once the track dried out, I did a few sessions working on corner speed as opposed to braking.
After doing this and talking with PK and Michael about some things, I went out for a dry session and immediately dropped 2 seconds from my PB and snagged a 1:26xx. Later in the day I followed Gino and Scott and dropped some more time ending in the 1:25.7s for the day.
PK wore one of my GPS lap timers for a session on Tuesday, and I had one of Michael's Qstarz files from a race...I studied them on Tuesday night and found some spots where I could make easy gains. Then, I rode an entire session with Michael on Wednesday and hit a 1:24.38....which is far faster than I expected to get this season. I hit a few 1:24s throughout the day and that gave me some confidence that I had learned what Michael showed me. Below is a video from the QRacing software of my best lap in July vs. my best lap in August. It's especially interesting, to me, to watch the speed/distance graph at the bottom of the video.
Big thanks to Michael (PainfullySlowl) for spending a good portion of the day working with me. Also thanks to Peter Kates, Gino, Scott, and of course Ken for the recent personal instruction.
YouTube- Dropping Four Seconds at Loudon