Lake County Fair Mx Day 2

Hey everybody! Yesterday was the second and last day of the motocross racing at the Lake County Fair for this year. And what a day it was. We didn't actually know that we were going until the afternoon. We thought it was going to pour rain and be horrible. It ended up being quite different! It stayed pretty cloudy all day, but the rain missed us. So we ended up getting ready a little bit later than we would've liked. But we got it done!

Before we left I was trying to figure out if any of my friends wanted to come with. Marc ended up wanting to tag along! :D We were already kind of in a hurry when we left to pick him up and go to the fair. Oh man, we thought we were cutting it close! We got there at 5 pm, and that's when practice was supposed to start! But we ended up being fine. All my practices went pretty good. No crashes! It was kind of muddy in my first practice, though. I guess it might have rained there... or they just watered it that much.

I was pretty excited for racing! I knew how well I did the day before in the heats (at least the first one) so I was thinking about doing the same thing. What do you know? I got the holeshot and finished in 3rd. Yeah! Next up was my 450 heat race. The day before I didn't get a real good start in that race. But we put on a holeshot device yesterday. Umm, again, holeshot! I ended up finishing in 4th in that one. Not bad. At that time I dropped Marc off in the stands to fend for himself and got ready for my 450 LCQ, since pretty much everyone in that class had to race it, even though everyone was going to the main anyway. And, *ahem*, holeshot! I was enjoying getting my name said at the start of every race. It made me feel good. I was in the lead for 3 out of 4 laps. 2nd place was not that bad of a place for me. :D Over the finish I threw a pretty good whip, I thought. I hope someone got a picture. :P

At that time intermission started. And along with that, the autograph signing! I thought that the pro's were only going to sign autographs. But then they said, "all riders to the autograph signing." Sweet. So I got to sit there for 10 minutes and sign stuff for people. I found out that shirts are actually pretty difficult to sign. I guess you learn that skill with experience! Then it was time for my mains.

Guess what. I got the holeshot once again in the 250 main! I was in 3rd place for most of the race and was hoping to stay there. But then I got into some lappers... I ended up not jumping the triple and the guy in 4th did. So he passed me. That sucked. So I ended up in 4th place. My 450 main went similarly. I didn't get the holeshot in the last race, though. I wheelied off the start a little bit. I still got a 2nd place start, though. But then I was 4th or 5th going into the triple. I ended up being 4th the whole race. I was pretty close to 3rd place the whole race. It was hard to pass on this track, though. I got pretty close on the second to last lap when he rolled some section. But he then almost pushed me into a hay bail! So I got 4th once again. No podium. It would have been cool to be on the podium.

Overall the Lake County Fair was a cool experience for me! Afterward I talked to some of my mom's friends who came to cheer me on. Thanks for coming Sammie and everyone else! I also checked out a trials bike and decided that I want to get one someday. It just seems like it would be a mountain bike, except with an engine. I feel like I would enjoy that. :D That was pretty much all that happened from my experience yesterday. Not a bad day!

Thanks for reading! -Greg

P.S. Check out B.C. Productions on Facebook to see some sick pictures!

Lake County Fair Mx

Hola! So far this week I have pretty much been only thinking about the Lake County Fair Mx. A nice 2 days of thinking about it. I raced the 250 and 450 Amateur classes there last night. Before we got there I was worried about how difficult the track was going to be. It ended up not being too bad at all! I knocked out pretty much every jump in my first practice. I just had to get my corner speed up then. My second 250 practice was going well up until one of the last laps. I tried jumping past someone on the back triple on their left side. I ended up not going fast enough into the jump... Yeah, I cased it and flew over the handlebars. It wasn't too fun. I'm happy that I was all right. My chain did get a little rattled, though.

At 7 p.m. the racing began! My 250 heat race went really well. I got the holeshot and got 3rd. The 2 guys in front of me were a little bit faster. My 450 heat didn't go as well. I spun in the start and was near the back. Doh! I think I got 6th or something in that one. I think my cheerleaders Elis, Lexi, and Shauna helped me out! Almost everyone then had to do the 450 LCQ race because they wanted a show. I got a not so good start and was once again near the back. I couldn't pass this guy in front of me very well, either. So I think I got 10th or something.

My mains then started getting closer and closer. I was hoping to do well in the 250's. I ended up being top 3 going into the first turn. But that didn't end very well. The 2 guys in front of me started turning while I was going straight. I almost t-boned them! Instead I lost my balance and slid out. Bad mistake. I couldn't get my bike started for a while after that. By the time I did get going, everyone had lapped me. After that I just tried riding good and passed some people, even though they were a lap ahead. So that race wasn't too good for me.

My last race of the night was the 450 main. In that one I got a pretty good start. I was 4th going into the second turn. Sweet! I stayed there pretty much the whole race. On the second to last lap Brandon Pope, passed me, though. So I got 5th. I felt pretty good about that race.

Thanks to anyone that came out to support me yesterday! I tried doing some whips over the finish for you guys. :P I don't know if I'm gonna go race there tonight. If it rains a lot, I won't go. But if it doesn't rain much then I probably will go. Should be sweet! Bye! -Greg

Remember-ade

Hey you all! I'm kind of having trouble remembering what I did this weekend- must be because of that party... just kidding! I'm going to drink some of my remember-ade now... there we go! How did I forget that? tsk tsk.

Friday I had my day cut a little short with a visit from some relatives of Matu. But no problems or anything. I went with them to their house actually! That was because I felt like eating really, really good food that night. And also partly because I went with them to the Museum of Science and Industry on Saturday. Yeah! (That's for Kerr) There were a ton of cool things to see in there. The German u-boat from World War II. The worlds fastest machines- one from the 1800's and one from the 1900's. There was quite a bit of difference in speed. A couple hundred miles per hour, not to be exact. The machine made tornado, wave machine, avalanche show: so many interactive exhibits! And what a better way to end off the day at the Museum than with a movie about the Hubble telescope in the massive, 5-story omnimax theater. Wow! (Kerr) It was awesome!

Then I had a more unknown part of my day. I took the train home from Chicago for the first time by myself. I had to do it. I had a party to get to! My train ride went really smoothly. So I'm happy about that.

And now to the par-tay. It was Jordan Jackson's graduation party. Whoo-pee! Most of the adults drank on the porch while us not so adult's played volleyball. It was pretty fun and tiring! I couldn't put my shirt on for a while afterward because it was still sweaty. Oh well. :P It was fun playing a little ping pong and watching others play games that involved a ping pong ball. We then ended off the party with some midnight volleyball games.

Today, Sunday, was a day of motocross for me. I went to a track in Wisconsin that I hadn't been to before. Kimball's track. It was a pretty technical track, I thought. At least that's what those whoops whispered in my ear... After we left we payed a visit to one of my favorite babies, Brie! And Dan, Shane, and Sylvia too of course. :D

It looks like that remember-ade sure helped me out on this one! Thanks for reading! -Greg

P.S. It looks like I'm gonna race the Lake County Fair this Tuesday and Wednesday. Sweet!

geo-what?

Hey everybody! The last couple days have been flying by pretty quickly. It's already Friday! Some pretty fun stuff has been happening this week. Wednesday morning I earned some money working out in the hot sun. It wasn't bad at all, though. I think I'm used to the heat pretty well right now. That afternoon I also went shredding at Kody Kamm's house. Ok, it was more like puttsing in the beginning. It was pretty slick on the freshly watered track with a 450. It became better later on. That was good! I felt all right, but not super good. Oh well. I think it was pretty good practice.

That same day I just happened to find 2 geocaches. Ok, I lied; I looked for them. The first one was by the Costco in Lake Zurich in a parking lot. I felt like an idiot standing pretty much in the middle of the parking lot. I was having trouble finding it... But then some guy waved me over and acted like he was telling me top secret information. He pretty much told me exactly how to get it. Thanks man! :D The second one was coming back home from dirtbiking. I convinced my dad to stop somewhere near home. It was kind of tough looking for it in the dark and mosquito infested place, but Matu spotted it! Nice!

Yesterday (Thursday) actually had a lot of stuff for us to do. In the morning I went on a run with Matu biking next to me. It was going extraordinarily well until it started pouring on us. We stopped for a little by a beach because we saw that it was closed. What?! I called the number on the sign and asked why. They said the county closed it because it has a high bacteria count or something. I guess no more swimming for now. Continuing with the run... it started raining harder when we got closer to home. It was actually pretty fun and made me run faster. We were soaking wet by the time we got home. Woah!

It was geocaching time for a couple hours in the afternoon. Yeah! Stephanie (my neighbor) took me, Elis, and Matu geocaching with her. I got 4 more additions to my findings. It would've been 5, but we couldn't find one. We were looking all around and a little girl came up to us. She asked, "Are you geocaching?" Steph said, "yeah." The girl then informed us that it was no longer there. :P

When we got back home we decided that we should make our own geocache. I think we did a pretty good job. I just hope no animal or anything will steal it! It'll be fine, I think. Thanks for taking us geocaching Steph!

For our night activity my dad, Elis, Matu, and I went to see Inception at the movie theater. What a great movie! We missed a little bit of the beginning, but I don't think we missed too much (I hope!). It turns out the whole movie could be totally different than I thought was actually happening... or not. It really makes you think! If you are wondering whether to see this movie, go for it! Don't blame me if your brain hurts afterward, though. :D

Have a nice day! -Greg

Two fun days

So I was listening to the pulp mx show and I thought, what's a better thing to do right now than update my millions of fans on my blog! So here I am. Listening. I had two awesome days. Yesterday, Sunday, I went to Kody Kamm's house to ride. It was the first time I had been there and man, the track was sweet! It was groomed and watered, so it formed some ruts as well. There weren't very many jumps, but I think that actually made it better. I think there were like 8 total guys riding there in the beginning of the day. One of the jumps sections looked more like a bunch of singles! It was cool seeing Kody Kamm do it all the time. I didn't think I would be able to do it. But then my dad said I should and I eventually did! I thought it was pretty sketchy, but I guess it wasn't that bad. I'll be going back there on Wednesday. :D

Today was a much more do nothing type day. I went with Matu to find a geocach that was somewhat near my house, which was pretty cool. My phone wasn't working as a gps, so we just had to guess a little and look at a map online. Once we did find it, we were surprised. It was so fricken small! And to make it better there was a wasp nest right above it. Great. So there we were, looking like some lady scared of a mouse. But sticks on the ground really helped us out! After signing our names, we had the problem of putting it back. The paper was hard enough to put back in the mini container. Then I just thought some happy thoughts and slid the geocach back to its hiding spot. Man, we were pretty happy to get it back to the right spot without any stings!

After washing my bikes, Matu and I went swimming in the lake. It looked like it might rain so we wanted to swim before then. We left when it started to rain. That worked out well!

Towards the night we went to watch my mom's volleyball games. It looked like they were close games. They lost the first 2 games but won the last 1. During the last game Matu and I learned that women need emotional support a lot. That was from a lady named Brenda on my mom's team. She told us that because the other team had just gotten 10 straight points. So Matu and I cheered a little to help them out. I believe that helped them win that last one! :D

So there you go. Life lessons, dramatic treasure hunting, and extreme action. I hope your heart didn't start pumping too hard! Until next time. -Greg

Wowza

Wowza, it has already been almost a week since I've been back from Georgia. Time is flying at home. On one of the days this week I went mountain biking at kettle morraine in Wisconsin with Chris Favro, also known as Shenzi. Man, it's feeling almost as hot as Georgia was this week! It's just sapping the energy out of me. The mountain bike ride was fun. The trail was nice for sure! That same day my family went to Chris's birthday party dinner at a Mexican restaurant. There I got to practice some of my Spanish. :P. Chris turned 43, which my dad decided is a very important year for him, or something like that.

The day after that I went riding at Lukas's house. Oh man, the track was so dusty and hardpacked! But it was ok since I was the only one riding. After I finished riding I noticed my 450 had exactly 43 hours on it. I almost decided never to ride it again so the hours could stay on that number forever! But it was not to be...

We also have had a guest over for the past 3 or so days. He's a 14 year old kid named Mattias (I don't really know how to spell his name). He's visiting from Estonia. With him I went swimming twice and biking. It's been pretty fun. Today he came with me and my dad to Motoland, too. My sister and her friends were up all night, I think, last night. But they seemed to have more energy than me this morning! Freaky!

Riding at Motoland today was sooooo tiring. Every 20 minutes we had a 20 minute ride. 5 total. I feel dead right now. The track got really bumpy, but it was sweet battling a little bit with some guys.

Now we're driving somewhere to see some auto show and have dinner with the relatives of Mattias. Bye! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 12

Hey everybody! Today was the last official day of my trip to Georgia. I went there with Shane and Dan Cobb, rode for a week and a half, and then came back home with my family. It really couldn’t have gone much better. Today was just a long driving day back home. It was so humid and warm in the van! Man, it isn’t too comfortable to sit in the back because of that! But we got through it.

We left pretty early in the morning; a little before 6 am. We’ve been driving for 16 or so hours now. Ok, we took a couple pit stops too. For breakfast we went to a Waffle House in Alabama. The first day I wrote about this adventure I kind of threw Alabama under the bus by saying that they’re really slow! But the Waffle House helped redeem its state. Our food was done pretty quickly and it didn’t taste bad either. Nice! That meal held us up until dinner. For all the hours in between we slept, read books, watched movies, and just kind of sat there. Not too exciting. But the day went by pretty well for me.

For dinner we stopped by a Chinese restaurant in Rossville, Indiana. A couple months ago my dad and I went there with Cody and John VanBuskirk when we had some races near there. It tasted pretty good. But the bill was quite a surprise!

Now we are almost home. Yessss! Only 5 minutes left. And what a better way to end the trip than with my blog? I’m feeling like I’m at home already. Dan and Shane’s house was starting to feel homey before I left. But it’s not the same as my real home. I hope I get to do another trip like this again some time. It was fun! I guess I won’t be writing my blog every day now, but I’ll still keep you all updated on my happenings! Bye! –Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 11

Today was my last day of staying down here in Georgia. The 11 days so far have gone by fast! I'm surprised. Today was a race at southern raceway in memory of a kid who died there 3 years ago, Gunner Moore. There were not that many racers there. I think the most people in one race was 10 people. And that was with classes combined! All together there were 7 races and they went by fast. So fast in fact that we had like a 2 hour intermission. I did 2 classes: Mx B and Lites B. I was the only one in the first one and there were 3 of us in the second one. So right away I knew I was gonna win at least 1 class! :P. My first race went pretty well with combined classes. I basically got 3rd. But it was good! In my next race I actually had other people in my class. I holeshotted my class but was Behind sunny drake. So I felt pretty good. But it didn't go too well. In the end of the first lap I scrubbed the finish tabletop too hard and basically landed sideways. It didn't get much better from there... My feet came off and I was hanging off the side of my bike giving it more gas in hopes of somehow saving it. But I didn't. I fell to the side I was hanging off... And another guy hit my bike and flipped a couple times. Gage. He was in the camp this week too! He ended up being ok but didn't finish. So I got 2nd place because there were 3 of us total.

At intermission there was a 3 man team race where one guy runs, one does push ups, and one races a pit bike. I did that with Shane and chris, who is a kid training there for a few weeks from Canada. Chris ran, I did push ups, and Shane raced the pit bike. We got 4th out of 5 teams. I think shane's pit bike blew up or something. But it was ok. I didn't really care. It was fun!

My second set of motos went normally. I won my first moto again. Duh. And I got 2nd in my second moto behind Gage. So I ended up getting two first place overalls! Yay!

We later went home and watched two movies. And now I'm really tired. So this was basically my last day down here. Tomorrow we start the drive home really early. Bye! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 10

Aloha! Today was a surprisingly hot and humid day. Maybe I noticed it today because I only rode for less than half a day. It felt so hot... Shane and I rode at fast trac's today. The track was really smooth and got one rut in pretty much each corner. We ended up doing 3 motos where we just rode. Man, during break time it felt like we were in an oven! But we all got through it good.

At about 1 we left the track to go back home to meet my family there. It had been a week since I saw them. It was pretty cool because we arrived at the exact same time to the house! It was sweet. An hour later we left to go to southern raceway so we could work on all the bikes. A minute before we got there it started pouring rain like crazy. Great! So my dad and I ended up doing my bikes under our broken canopy. Not the most comfortable place. But it sure was better than dan working under a tiny umbrella! The day there was supposed to be a cool memorial for a kid who died there 3 years ago. There was a slip n slide and karaoke. I didn't do that stuff because I'm a boring person of course.

We were supposed to watch 2 movies tonight but it ended up not going as planned. Dan, Elis, and I were sitting on a rocking bench and realized it was already 10 pm. So that obviously meant no movies. Darn. That's because Shane and I are gonna race at southern raceway tomorrow. I hope it's not muddy! I'll update ou about that tomorrow. Bye! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 9

Hey! Today was the last day of the Built Lusk Tough camp. It went by pretty quickly for sure. All the fast food must have made it go by fast! Today was supposed to be like a final exam. We had to put to use what we learned in moto situations. So guess what we did... Motos! We did 4 lap races where the fastest guys were in the back. I'd like to say those went well for me, but I actually ended up crashing a couple times. They weren't bad though. They mostly happened because I lost my front end in the loose dust that formed in the turns. It was also tiring. After making the mistakes and stuff I sure used some energy!

After lunch at wendy's I got in the kiddie pool to cool off a little. Now I had a plan. I wanted to keep riding the 450 in the afternoon so I could just take a fresh 250 to another track tomorrow. But oh no, I couldn't do that. You see, the 450's rear sprocket was almost totally round. I'm pretty sure the chain wouldn't have kept moving the wheel very good any more. So I took out the 250. It was good though. That's because we went on the turn track and I could be better there with the 250. It went pretty well for me there. I felt pretty good.

For the end of the camp we had a quick little picture session and some papers handed out to us. So I am on my way to becoming Lusk tough! That's because I went on an insane mountain bike ride with Ezra Lusk and some other people. We at first planned to do 3 laps of this hilly, loopy mountain bike trail. But that didn't end up happening. Instead I found myself pushing my bike up the steep hills and out of breath. And it turns out Ezra and Sunny Drake weren't that far ahead. I think they waited for me even though they said they didn't. We stopped somewhere near the end of the 2nd lap and got water poured on us by Shane Lusk and some other guys. Wow, that felt good after that crazy ride!

It was pretty cool working with Ezra and Shane Lusk during this camp and I think I got faster for sure. I don't know if everyone felt like that, but I did. Now I'll see if I can put it to use this weekend. -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 8

Hey everybody! As I'm typing this we're all watching "the crazies." what a weird movie! I thought I could use this time to get my blog done. Anyway, today was morning and afternoon riding at the camp. We rode on the night track this time. Basically the whole idea is to pin it as much as possible with smooth transitions. We also worked on soaking up jumps and possibly even scrubbing them. It was pretty fun to practice that. A little later we did some timed sections to see who could go over the two tabletops the fastest. I was second by a tenth of a second. Then we also did little races where we go over the jumps side by side. That was pretty sweet! A couple times it was pretty close in the air!

After riding was done I jumped in the mini pool for the first time all week. We've had the thing out since like Saturday and this was the first time anyone got in it all week! I guess it was there to look at up until today. It felt pretty good! On the way out of there Dan said that it was 101 degrees outside. Wow! I didn't realize it was that hot! I guess I might be getting used to it already. Oh, we went to Zaxby's today for dinner! It's still as good a place as last week for sure...

Right now the crazies is a lot like other horror movies. But it is kind of interesting. Ok... It now ended pretty weirdly. Oh well. I'm gonna go get ready for bed now. Bye! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 7

Hey! Today was the seventh day of my stay here. Wow, already! The camp is over half way over but the fun isn't stopping. We didn't really do anything until 11:30 am, though. Before that Shane and Ezra talked about training and other good stuff. I did get some info out of it. When we did get riding, we did a turn section that flowed really good in the beginning. It ended up getting rough and and a little choppy. It was still good at the end, though. It reminded me of yesterday's training, too. Later on we did some 3 man races through there which were pretty fun. The stuff they had us doing worked in the races!

After we rode we did a fun little mountain bike ride. We did 3 laps on this mile long hilly course. It had us going over some of the regular track jumps, so we could jump off each single. That was pretty cool. On the third lap Ezra Lusk, another kid, and I did a slightly different track that included a steep uphill. Ezra was the only one that made it up! I made it about 3/4 of the way up, I think. I fell over too! My clipped on shoes were too hard to get off. I was funny, though.

After the day at southern Mx we went to a place called Mr. Chick for dinner. And I bought it for everyone! It was like the second time I've bougt anything on this trip. Umm, I'm pretty sure dan has spent a lot more money than me so far... Yeah...

Tomorrow we're going to ride a lot more than we did today. Bye! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 6

After a tough day yesterday, today went a lot better. I was sore pretty much all day, but I still felt all right. In the firs half of the day we worked on a rhythm section that was supposed to simulate the 10 commandments at loretta lynn's. I ended up doing double-double-triple-triple through them. I was doing that yesterday, too. But it was kind of harder towards the end because we were getting some ruts in there. Ezra Lusk told me some things to do differently, as did Shane lusk. I think it helped me through there.

For lunch break Shane, dan, and I went to sonic. I think it was the first time I had been there! Crazy, they just bring the food to your car. I don't think any restaurant would have wanted me in with my smelly gear on anyway! That tasted pretty good.

The second half of our training day consisted of a section of some sandy turns. Now that was pretty fun! We had 2 man races through the section. Sunny Drake made us some squared up lines through the turns. That was theoretically supposed to let us make passes through there. The original old line was faster, though. Later on we did it by ourselves and I thought I did pretty awesomely at the end. We went to the edges of the track pinned to miss the bumps. The turns flowed really well, too.

After we were done we didn't even do any work to the bikes. Dan wanted to get home. We didn't know why at the time. But when we did get home, he surprised Shane with a new lawn mower! He had been messing around with us a lot of the car ride to the house! They're lawn was getting long anyway. Dan did half the yard and Shane did the other half. Oh the joy!

Right now we still haven't eaten dinner and are relaxing. This is a pretty early blog for me! Usually I have been doing it at 10 pm. But I just happened to have time. Tomorrow we're going to do some off the bike training at the camp, so that should be interesting! That's it for now. -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 5

Hey everybody! Today was the first actual day of the Built Lusk Tough school. I think we were all excited at the beginning. All 6 of us. That means that there's more instruction for us! This school is all about track time. We ride a lot! We had an hour long warm up. That was quite a bit, but it helped us learn the track pretty well. It's all soft and has some pretty good rhythm sections. After the warm up we had a 5 lap moto thing to see what our base lap times are. I had to go out and crash on the 3rd or 4th lap. I'm pretty sure it was in the schedule we got in the beginning. "Greg Sassi crashes - 11 am". So I had to follow that... So I took a pretty big crash when I cased a double, flew I to the face of a jump that we like to call " the wall" and got ejected off. That's pretty much all I remember from that incident. Anyway, I later went out for the last couple hours of the school. My eye was almost swollen shut, but I did pretty good. Man, the turn track is tough!

After we were done for the day I did all my bike maintenance and helped pack some stuff up. I was still pretty sore. The area around my eye and my shoulder were hurting. Actually, they're still hurting. My head also hurt a little bit. When we went to KFC for dinner we joked around with the cashier and told them Shane and I got into a fight. But just a few seconds later we told them I actually got in a fight with my bike.

Now I'm about ready to sleep. Until tomorrow. -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 4

This is day 4 of our grueling expedition. There is plenty of food... And the weather is great. Today was our day off, so we watched "shutter island" in the morning and "the road" at night. Shutter island was actually good! I didn't think it would be good, but it was actually pretty interesting. The road was kind of boring. It reminded me a lot of "I am legend." I think that's what most of our "tough" day consisted of. For lunch we went to a Mexican restaurant with some nice people who live right next to mtf. Deborah and Jake. I shared some quesadillas with Shane and listened to two jokes from Jake. After that we all went to dan and shane's new house so they could check it out. We played some basketball and had fun dunking on the lowered net. It was the first time in a year I had seen them.

Later on dan, Shane, and I went to dairy queen and ate some good ice cream. When we got back to the house dan and Shane fell asleep somehow. It was funny. They just plopped down after we watched a little Mx movie. I didn't really want to sleep, so I put on some DMXS RADIO and shot some hoops for an hour and a half. That was cool listening to the show.

Tomorrow is gonna be the actual first day of the Built Lusk Tough school, so I'm gonna get some rest for that now. Tomorrow I should have some good stories from it! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 3

Hello! This is my 43rd post on this blog. I don't know about you guys, but I think that should be a holiday! July 3rd. Hopefully I'll remember next year. Anyways, today turned out to be a pretty good day. We woke up at 9. Actually, I had my alarm for 8, but everyone woke up right away from it and said "turn it off!" So we ended up sleeping for another hour. I was surprised. I thought it was supposed to be a riding day! But I was ok with it because we actually ate breakfast. Cereal! A little later we left for the track. We ended up being a little side tracked by a store. We needed some things to make the washer and dryer work.

We ended up getting to the track at 10:40. At that time, we were ready to shred. I rode 4 times all together and put an hour of riding time in. I did a 15 lap moto on a supercrossi sand track once too. I wanted to do one earlier, but my rear brake stopped working about 6 laps in. So I just cruised a few more laps. But I did get a good one in later. I just used less rear brake. In the last half laps another guy started riding with me. He caught me and passed me, but it was fun! Today I tried riding with my index fingers instead of middle fingers, too. I just felt like I should, and there I was, using index fingers. I don't know why I wanted to try it. It just seems better. After that we watched some red bud on tv and just chilled.

That was pretty much our day. After all that, we went to a guys house to do something really quick with shane's shock. There was a guy who just wouldn't stop talking there! It was nuts! He seemed nice, but I was glad when we left. Up to this point, I thought I had a pretty healthy day food wise. So I knew we had to do something about that. Pizza hut it was for dinner! It took a long time for our food to get done, but it was really good when we got it. I'm not gonna put it over Zaxby's, but I have to admit it was close!

Well that's enough for today. We're all pretty tired. Happy 43rd post everybody! :D
-Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 2

Hey y'all! Today I got to practice my southern accent quite a bit. That's obviously because we made it to Georgia! We got here really late, like at midnight or 1 last night. I was pretty much passed out before that, though. (so I'm told). It was not comfortable to sleep in the fun mover because of how humid it was in there. The funny part is that we slept in front of dan and shane's new house! But it wasn't furnished or anything yet. Oh well.

When we woke up, we knew we had a lot to do. We had to carry in all the mattresses, a couch, and a tv. That was just the beginning of the day. I must admit, their new house is pretty nice. We are worried about rattlesnakes in the woods though! After we got some of the stuff out of the funmover, we had a problem. The battery wasn't working very well, so the electric things in it barely worked at all. So we waited there for a little bit until the battery charged back up a little.

As soon as that was ready, we started cruising to southern raceway to get some things set up there. Now I thought we just wanted to hook up the power to the fun mover there and some other shenanigans. But I never thought that we would go there to set up a kiddie pool. Yeah, that's exactly what we did. It was pretty weird. I mean why would we want a kiddie pool set up at that particular time? Anyway, we did that so it wouldn't get blown away...

After being there for an hour or so, we realized we hadn't eaten anything all day. And it was already 2 pm! I was really happy when we finally got to a place called Zaxby's. I ordered some kind of chicken sandwhich with fries. I also got a really good birthday milk shake. I felt like I was in heaven eating that! Oh man, it was great. But it didn't last forever, sadly.

In a pick up truck we left to our next destination: home depot to pick up some appliances. Like I mentioned, the cobb's new house was completely unfurnished. So we needed a refrigerator, washer, dryer, and microwave. That ended up being quite a challenge. We were looking at them at the home depot. But it turns out they don't keep any in stock. That was just wonderful. So we took a visit to our good friend, Sears.

The store was way smaller, but we were actually able to get stuff from right there! It ended up being quite a lot of money. We went out back to get everything loaded up into the truck, then. The refrigerator, washer, and dryer ended up going in perfectly, but then we had to wait for microwave for a while. It turns out the guy dropped it... Dang. So we were one appliance down. He said we could pick it up Tuesday. We then went right back to the house to unpack our new goodies. That took a little while too. It was already 6 by now, and we still hadn't bought any groceries for the new refrigerator. Sweet.

We ended up spending $300 at walmart. Yeah, I was surprised too! We also picked up a movie to watch. When we got back home for the third time, I was ready to eat my second meal of the day at 9 pm. Surprisingly, dan and Shane barely ate anything. I, myself, gave my arteries a cleansing with a beautifully made wrap. Then I topped it off with chocolate milk. Oh yeah, I also had some sandwiches with a chocolate spread on them. That's the way to do it.

Now we're all laying down on mattresses in dan's room because it's way too hot upstairs. They're sleeping and I'm about ready to do the same. Thanks for reading my blog everyone! I wanna make them all good like the one before this. Well, I tried. Check back tomorrow! -Greg

Built Lusk Tough: Day 1

Hey guys! Or should I say hey y'all? The second one sounds more appropriate for my location. That's because I'm going down south to Georgia for a week to do a motocross school by the Lusk family. Pretty sweet, huh? My friends dan and Shane cobb offered to take me down and everything. My dad couldn't come with, though, because he has work. I think I can handle most of the bike work and stuff.

This morning we began driving at 5 am from the Cobb house. That was our goal and we actually started two minutes early! We stopped around 3 times so far. The first time was for them to check out a new fun mover. It was pretty cool. The other times were for food. I can feel my arteries clogging right now! Every meal was fast food. From the times it took to get the food, I can tell which states are fast and which states are slow. Indiana's flying fast! I ordered some food from Mcdonalds, and the food was in my hands about two seconds after I stepped away from the cash register! Alabama's about as slow as a turtle. I ordered something with Shane at a Wendy's and it took at least 10 minutes to get everything. I was surprised. Oh well.

Currently we are still driving. We might make it to our destination around midnight, or we'll stop a little earlier. I don't really care. All I know is that it is freaking hot and humid in the middle of the fun mover! I don't know how I'm gonna sleep, but it'll be fine. So day 1 was nothing eventful, but it has to be done. Check back later for more updates! -Greg

P.S. We've been driving for about 18 hours now. Oh yeah.