Bumps in the road III

Those of you who've been reading my blog from the start of the year may remember my posts about sticking to the RWD class, even though it's the harder road less travelled? Well this is definitely taking some perseverance, but at the same time this dexterity season has been remarkably rewarding. How can the season be rewarding when I haven't won anything since the first dexterity - had my teeth kicked out at dex 2, had to sit out dex 3 because I was over 6 months pregnant and had third place snatched from my near to the end of the day last Sunday at dex 4. Dismal, right?

Not if you look at the bigger picture...


This is what I call losing the battle but winning the war. It definitely brings home how understanding the rules and working with the system can help in the long run.

Mind you, I still want to be within 10 seconds of the leaders on any given dexterity and I still have a sick feeling in my stomach having missed out on any trophies in the grand finale (I placed 5th in RWD and 4th in the Lady Driver class) but my driving is improving. On Sunday no one said that I was driving slowly, which is usually the first thing I hear. And I could feel that I was driving faster. I mean I was launching off the line, I had to car up as close to red lining as I could go and not sit on the line spining tyres... I charged into some corners at a speed where I swore the car would understeer but kinda knew in the back of my mind that it wouldn't... (simple logic, other people had to be going faster than I was to make those hellishly fast time therefore my speed would not equal a mishap! lol).

But anyway, the end result of this season is two trophies and the understanding that to master RWD and to be the first female to do so will take time.

PS - To everyone who helped out with Moo on Sunday, all the Uncles and Aunties... thanks a million! It really does take a village to raise a child :-)

Blog History

• Casualty: One Tyre Valve http://youmewordsablog2.blogspot.com/2006/02/casualty-one-tyre-valve.html
• Bumps along the road I http://youmewordsablog2.blogspot.com/2006/02/bumps-along-road.html
• Mijn auto dromen http://youmewordsablog2.blogspot.com/2006/02/mijn-auto-dromen.html
• Bumps in the road II http://youmewordsablog2.blogspot.com/2006/03/bumps-in-road.html