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After two years of not competing, coupled with avoiding being "just" a spectator, I had some free time Friday night so I went up to NHMS on a whim.
I was welcomed at the door and was instantly jacked for $25 for my meager 6 hour visit. It stung but I couldn't have given a shit less. Admittedly, I have dropped a whole bunch more cash than that on completely ridiculous stuff in the past....so the $25 was a drop in the bucket, if you will.
Parked my 4Runner in front of North 10, got set up with bacon pizza from Brookside and a 6'er of Stella Artois and, when he arrived, helped DBConz get set up.
After we meandred over to a fire where I met some folks I've never seen before and talked with other folks I've seen before.
During my time catching up and talking with Brett and a few others, it dawned on me......I'm an idiot for living 30minutes from a race track and not racing.
As people were wrapping up, I went home that night, walked straight to my basement and wrote the words "fix me!!" in the dust that had settled on the tank of my F4i then went to bed. Woke up way too early Saturday morning to be in Boscawen for 7am to pick up wood.
As I was driving I thought about everything that was said and talked about around the fire the night before knowing there is no way I can reasonably expect myself to continue to ignore the passion that I have for motorcycles which had driven me to the point of competing.
I have found that I am able to get around some of the concerns I have with certain things that have been implemented at LRRS in recent years so long as the goal of turning laps in achieved.
That all said, many of you will be seeing my tail section in 2015.