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My wife and I celebrated 10 years back in July. Marriage is awesome when you understand the true meaning of commitment. And its real cool always having a date on Friday night!
I know alot of people that think involvment = commitment. Not true. Its like having ham & eggs. The chicken is involved but the pig is committed. BIG difference between the two.
Good job Ant! You should never stop braggin about your wife. I met her and she is very cool.
Oh…………
Sh***********t……..
*** SNAP!!! ***
ow, that hurt. 😯
Brett and Dave and Tim, and everyone else should try to see how many of the local pros we can get out to EHT for the Nov 11th race and then the Ironman on the 19th. Then make sure someone videotapes the whole thing including motos so the little guys can watch it over and over.
To comment on some of the previous posts – I never had designs on being #1 National Novice this year – I just wanted to get better with every race and then set the goal to win the Grands. But, I’m back in expert and looking forward to chasing the big guns now. Heck, I’m #6 in the country right now. 😀 But thats’s only because I got one last Nat as a nov (Reg Championship). I’m with Dave – racing ABA BITD there was only one motivation – and that was to turn expert. I never got a top national ranking in the ABA – but just making the 17 Expert main at a National made you feel like a rock star.
Jess – after Woodward I shut down big time. Took a break.
Last night I was up late doing laundry so I got on my recumbent exercise bike for the first time since Woodward. I cranked out a solid 50 minutes and hardly broke a sweat, finished the laundry and came back and did another 25 minutes. Before Kentucky the 50 minutes was tough, never mind the extra 25.
So yeah, a break can be a good thing. Dont get discourage.
Ya gotta admit the 2007 NBL schedule makes it tempting to keep your license.
Remember what the principal in Grease said:
If you can’t be an athlete, at least be an athletic supporter! 😆
Chris – I wish I was closer to help out. But…on the outside chance I could get down there, let everyone know when you plan a work day to rebuild the tower.
Yer not a NiBLer anymore?? Just ABA???
Jess, I am thinking of investing in a pair of these padded shorts (seriously). See this link:
http://www.rockgardn.com/Browse_Item_Details.asp/Item_ID/2/categ_id/1/parent_ids/0,1
I hope they would consider maybe doing two day clinics like he did at EHT. I don’t think the wife would be too crazy about spending a week’s vacation there.
@LeadSled1 wrote:
I bet you never realized Caveman has LOVE and HATE across his nuckles in braille.
…why is their braille on drive-up ATM’s??
Jess – you gotta stay in BMX long enough for you and me to actually line up on a gate and race (again). If I beat you, then you can quit. But, unless we get combined, that is not going to happen until what, 2008 or 2009? So you have no choice but to stick around. :wink:!
What class was Klimiecki riding in???
@Caveman wrote:
Delaware is the bomb. If you’re not here, you’re retarded.
…or married….
Nah…my wife’s cool with my racing, but the family needed a break. See y’all on the 28th!
My goal at the beginning of the season was simple: make it around the track without medical assistance, before, during or after the race. I met that goal (for the most part).
Then after the Greg Hill clinic, I set a goal to actually train.
Then my goal became “beat Chris Wiley” at EHT (ha-ha). I did it in a moto or two, so I am happy. (He stomped on me most of the year). 😀 Chris has become a good friend. We really enjoy racing each other.
My next goal was to perfect a local in class. I finally did that.
I then set the goal to win the State Championship. I did that by default thanks to Brett’s move-up. If I had set that goal earlier, It would have changed some of my strategy at locals. (I might not have killed it on two bikes in 95 degree heat at EHT with 13 motos)
Once things started rolling, then it became win a National. I did. (Trumbull). I should have set the goal “perfect a nat” if I had known more about the point system and how things might play out at the Grands.
That gave me the ultimate goal: Win the main at the Grands. Darn near did. It was a great four-way shootout in the main. I had my shot. Just didn’t work out. No regrets. That whole weekend had its own set of mini-goals through each round.
One goal I did set earlier, once I got back on the 20″, was to turn expert this year. Yeah, y’all say I should have started there, but It had to be right for me. Now we’re expert. Cool.
Then the last goal was win the Regional Championship Race. Sort of anti-climatic in some respects, but still a goal. All I had to do was register for the race and I had the #1 Plate, but after the beating y’all gave me about still being novice, I felt I had to win it or get beat on again (Farside said I would have never heard the end of it 😀 ). NBL rules said I had to race it as a novice. So I set a goal right there that day to make the 35-39 Cruiser main. Something I had not done at a Nat when there was more than one gate of riders. I finally did that.
I’m just writing this to give a different perspective on goal setting. Some folks start out the year and set a few big fat hairy goals. Some make it, others miss (but not for lack of trying). A lot of times people don’t come close at all and get very discouraged. If thats you, then you need to set smaller more attainable goals and work from one to the next on the way to your big fat hairy goal.
Just keep one thing in mind: Put your goals in concrete but your plans in sand. Sometimes the plan might need to change along the way but keep focused on the goal. But, even then, there will be opportunities to set new goals along the way (in additiona to your original ones). Stay flexible.