Black Cloud

If it weren’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all. After getting landed on at the first GP in Bulgaria I didn’t think things could actually go worse for me in Portugal. But that is exactly what they did this past weekend.

 I went into Portugal ready to put it all together. I knew it was going to be my weekend. The track looked awesome, my bike setup was good and I just felt it. Qualifying went really well, even though I missed poll again by three tenths of a second. I felt very in control while a lot of the other girls were on the ragged edge. I was very confident going into the first moto. My start was decent in the first moto. I was in about 6th place and trying to make some quick passes to get near the front. I took an inside line coming down one of the hills and passed about three girls in the process. Good line i thought to myself. It was unfortunately when i was heading up the straightaway after taking that line that i clipped a big fence post with my bars and I got slammed to the ground. Before I could figure out what was going on I was running off the track with a visibly snapped wrist. So just like that it was over. My luck had just gotten much worse.

 I am back in the Isle of man for the time while I recover. I was in the hospital yesterday and they had to put me under while they manipulated my bones into place and fastened them together with some wires. So I am sporting a really beautifully colored cast for the next 4 weeks or so and taking it easy. I am hoping to be back for the colorado national but we will see how the healing goes. Injuries are  part of dirtbiking and I am just going to have to deal with my little string of bad luck and hope it turns around in the next few weeks. TG