Lake County Fair: Tuesday

Hey everybody! Tonight I raced at the Lake County Fair. All in all pretty good. It's always fun at that event. The first couple races were pretty rough for me, though. I had like 4 crashes. Booooo. But at least I got them out of the way for the mains. Speaking of mains, I got the holeshot in the 250 main and finished in 2nd. Not bad. It was cool 'cause I got to be on the podium (which consisted of the ground and our bikes). Happy happy.  450 main also went all right. Mid pack start, pushed the first lap past some people. Then I just couldn't get past #111. Oh well. 4th place is all right I guess.  I'm looking for an even better day tomorrow there! Hopefully it doesn't rain too much!

-Greg

Crashing Sucks

Hey everybody! Right now I'm going home with my Dad from our weekend at Red Bud. It sure was an interesting weekend. Well, maybe not interesting enough for us, though! When we were watching the pros on Saturday I always wanted to fall asleep in my lawn chair. I almost did a couple times, too. There was a lot of good racing, I just felt tired 'cause we only got about 3 hours of sleep the night before!

Our friend Kody Kamm qualified for the 250 motos, so that was cool for us to watch!

After finishing watching the last women's moto, my dad and I had to somehow clean ourselves. So we just went to a local lake to "swim." Problem solved!

Sunday was eventful, yet not so eventful. I decided to just race Open B. We were just hoping to be able to get out earlier. First moto, I was. Mid-pack start, good first two laps, and then a stupid little tip over when I tried a new line which just happened to go off the track. I was running 12th, but I finished 15th because of the tip over.

After that I had a lot of time to kill before my next moto. That time consisted of riding a bike around, eating, sitting, and looking at chicks. Yes, very eventful (not).

I got pretty pumped up for the second moto. I tried an indian scream (albeit weak). Started way inside. 11th off start. Some guy tried taking me out, but I passed him back cleanly in a sweeper. I felt great for the first half lap! Then I suddenly didn't feel so good. I was really trying to charge into the turns, and I ended up getting kicked over the bars. Ouch. I think my bike hit me too. Ugh. So then I kind of cruised the rest of the two and a half laps. My front end was totally twisted at first. Luckily bikes like to straighten themselves. I was then just trying to have fun hitting the rollers good. I was trying to also not get kicked over the bars again. I felt like I was on a bull. 28th in second moto gave me 22nd overall.

After that whole fiasco, I discovered that I lost my helmet cam in that crash. I was gonna get all you guys some awesome footage, but the clip broke right off. I tried to find it, but no luck. Maybe the track crew will find it...

That's it for now. I'm now trying to recover from my shoulder, knee, and ankle hurtiness. I know, not a word. Who cares. See ya! -Greg

On The Road Again

It's 1 am and my dad and I are on the road again. Red Bud bound. We haven't been there to see the pro national in a couple years, so we really wanted to go this year. You see, now we can cheer on Kody Kamm, Scott Zont, and some other guys!

Yep, it's gonna be a good day, I think. I hope it's not too muddy for us spectators!

After that day I think we're gonna stay for the amateur race there on Sunday. Actually, we might leave for the night and go back in the morning because the camping fee is freakin ridiculous. We might pay a visit to our favorite meat store by there, too. Hooray for cheap food!

See ya. -Greg

Riding

Hey people of the world! The past few weeks have been filled with work, riding, and little free time. I went to Kamm's track a couple times in these weeks. For some reason the track is always muddy when i go there. It can't be because of all the rain we've had, though. :P

I've also been to one new place and back to Doug Gust's house. Crazy huge jumps. Fun. Yesssss. Gust's house is just a bike destroyer, though. Almost everybody there seemed to have something wrong with their bike. My chain snapped... Nonono not so good. But at least i conquered all the jumps! Since my bike broke i got to test out an '03 ktm 450. That thing still hauls the mail even though it's pretty old. It did it's job. I ruined the sprockets on it though. Sorry Ralph!

That's pretty much all that's been going on. This weekend I'm gonna go cheer on some guys at Red Bud! Should be a fun day.

-Greg

Red Bud Regional: Sunday

Hey people! Sunday didn't really go as planned for me, but it wasn't that bad of a day overall. I had 3 motos. I had battles going on in all of them. The only problem was that those battles were happening towards the back of the pack.

I may try again in two weeks at Millville. We'll see! Have a nice day! -Greg

Red Bud Regional: Saturday

Hey everybody! This weekend I'm trying to qualify to Loretta Lynn's. Most things are going pretty good except the actual qualifying part.

On Friday we had some intensely rough practice at Red Bud. It rained the night before, so the ground was pretty soft all day. My dad and I almost didn't even go to practice because of the rain, but at the last minute we went. From the soft dirt came a bunch of ruts and big bumps. Yeah, it was pretty hard to ride. I think it helped me out for Saturday, though.

Saturday got pretty much just as rough, if not worse. Oh well. Some of my races went pretty good, though. In my first collegeboy race I got 10th, which I consider to be pretty good at a regional! A good start helped in that one. At the end of the day I had another collegeboy race, but this one had both divisions combined. Start= no bueno. I finished 19th in that one on a super bumpy track. I guess that's how I would've finished anyway without it being divided.

450 B mod went all right as well. I got a good start but couldn't stay up there very well. I ended up finishing 16th. 450 B stock went differently. I actually rode a 450 in that one, but the problem is that my starts suck on the 450! I got 20th in the first race, so I had to go to the last chance qualifier. Top 4 make it. Easy, right? Not if your starts suck. 7th = no qualify for other motos. Oh well. It's tough at these regionals.

I have three more motos tomorrow! Wish me luck again! -Greg

Hot hot hot

Hey everybody!  The past couple weeks I have been really busy all the time.  I guess that's a good thing, huh? School ended for me two weeks ago.  I only had one test left in the morning and then I was free! Or was I?  Right away my dad picked me up and we went to work.  We have been working almost everyday for the past two weeks.  But we still find time to go riding.  Both weekends so far I have been going riding with some guys that live by me.  It was pretty fun to go with them.  So I actually got to go riding a couple times every week so far.  Last wednesday, a guy from seven50seven.com was out at Kamm's track taking some awesome pics.  Go check them out at his website!

I also got to ride at Doug Gust's place this past weekend.  Now that track has some big jumps!  He has a really cool set up over there.  Track around his house in the woods. A lake to ride jet skis on. Heck, even a mini airport!  Yeah, it's pretty cool over there.

Also, it has been getting very hot here in Illinois recently.  The temperature's have been in the upper 90s for the past couple days.  That feels very hot because we have only had cold weather so far this year!  But it's all good.  The Red Bud regional is coming up this weekend, too.  I'm really hoping to qualify in at least one class to Loretta Lynn's.  Wish me luck.

Have a nice day! -Greg