Went away for a few days last week, taking the recently rebuilt Redline to another Velosolutions pump track in Fukushima before returning via Niigata for Sunday's race at Joetsu. There were 12 riders in the over 30s class including some non-regulars getting a practice race in before the national series visits there in a couple of weeks' time. The 12 of us were split into two racks of six, with the top four from each going through to the main. I finished 4th, 4th and 5th in the motos, just scraping through from my rack. The main went as expected and after a brief dice, or rather, dive for 6th in the first berm, which I failed to pull off, I slotted into 7th place which I held to the line. It was another hot and humid day, so I was happy to make it to the end in one piece. They ran a gate session after lunch, so I fuelled up and stayed on for some much-needed gate practice. Overall, a really fun day and whilst I love the GT, it was good to be out on the Redline again.
The next races at both Joetsu and Oizumi are not until late September, and it's looking likely that I won't be able to make it to either, so I'm going to try at least to get some more pump track action during September. Gotta keep the ol' legs movin'
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