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Posted by: Fitz
My First two races went like this! Indiana to Florida for first round of GNCC then to Disney World the next day with the family,Three year old boy and a two year old girl, then to Macon for round two of the GNCC and finally the next morning home to Indiana.The longest nine or ten days of my life.
Posted by: 400freak
I have to agree with you, I went to a track for the first time yesterday and I am a whooped pup. It was alot of fun but you had better be in shape to stay out there for any length of time.
Posted by: trick250rX
Yeah back when I raced a 300ex I would wake up the next mornign and couldnt stand up ever since I have been running this RX with the right equitment I am a little sore the next morning
Posted by: morvac
Yup..gotta love those XC events! (ouch!!)
Posted by: 98warrior
Holy $#!- i just got up, and i gotta really hand it to you quad racers, racers i am sooooooo sore from that mx track i can bearly move especially my legs or any other body part. I thaught I was in shape going to gym and I am but still feeling the pain. But what a blast it was. To bad the day before I went i found out my axle bearings wear bad I still went and completly destryed them. But the warrior went good i think I needed to rejet cause of the alltitude cause it had really bad throttle response which it usaully does.
But you guys must have some pretty big balls to last hours in a race.
P>S>
How much would a axle bearing job cost ???
Posted by: hondatrx300ex
thanks Stephan that makes me feel real good....just kiddin man really and truely the gym doesn't help you that much for MX. the best thing is just to ride.
Posted by: 400exalltheway
yeah i was the same way. didn't have any prob that day or night but when i got up, well i couldn't get up i was so sore it took awhile
Posted by: WOODRIDER400
Go run a local Harescramble or Cross-Country race. See if you can get up the next day. Those trees hurt, not to mention (6 to 8) laps ranging from (5 to 8) miles ea. That will let you know real quick how in shape you are. I have found one thing though, If you let the quad do the work and work with it instead of fighting it you don't get half as sore.
Posted by: WOODRIDER400
Your right about people not knowing what it is like. They say, "Oh, your just out there riding around". Yea right, put their fat butts out there and let them try it. I wouldn't trade it though.
Harescrambles and XC, If your butt aint sore and you aint eatin dirt, you just aint racin.
Posted by: Lasher
I have a friend of mine that comes out riding with me all the time. He has even attended a few races. While play riding in the pits, he thought is was a little tough but really not that bad. Heck, I have him on tape at one of my races yelling “You suck!”
But a few weeks ago, he came with me to a practice track. First off, he could only take one lap because his arms started to hurt from holding on so tight for fear of the jumps. But when he did come in he could not believe how difficult it is to ride on a MX track.
Ever since that day he has nothing but respect for me and how hard it is to actually race.
Posted by: YFMRACER
Not to upset any one but i have to laugh. I know what its like all to well. most of the time i don't feel bad until about 2 or 3 days affter a race. the best thing to do is ride hard when ever you can. it took me a year and a half of no stop racing to build my enduance up to the point that i could run allout for two hours with out having to letup. the bad part of it was that i was in a car accident and now i'm in bad shape. i tried racing affter bing off the bike for over three months and i had to pull off after about 40 min because of my injuries and pure exaution. I'm trying to get back to where i was before but its a long hard road to recover what took somuch to begien with. keep pushing your self and you will over come your problems. An other funny thing is that people that have never done it have no idea and don't under stand.
Posted by: TRX250Rracer
I remember my first mx race... 14 yrs old on a blaster.. after 3 laps of hard practice i was worn out, but my race was 5 laps and i just kept the pace up and got fourth place overall. But i was tired and about to pass out. Now i gotta far from stock r and a tricked out 400ex and i luv em both faster than my blaster.
