Saturday, July 21, 2012

James Motorcycle Racer

James traveled to tracks with his pit crew. He traveled in a motor home and his dirt bikes rode in a tractor trailer. It might seem like overkill since all the races were around computer city but, some of the races were far enough from his house that James would have had to stay at a hotel overnight for the race and he did not like staying at hotels so that is why he had the motor home.

He and his crew would leave two days before a race and arrive at the race race track probably three or four hours later after fighting their way through rush hour traffic. Then James would make lunch for the whole crew and everyone would eat under an awning that was attached to the motor home.

Lunch was always the same. Hot dogs, French fries, and chilli, salad, and potato salad. It was a feast. After lunch the team would unload the motorcycles at the track for practice and since the motor home was close to the track they would walk back to the motor home and talk strategy before a dinner of potato salad and chicken was served with chocolate cake for desert.

Then there would be singing by the camp fire while roasting marshmallows. The days on the road were some of the best days of James life. After the singing everyone would retire to the motor home for a nigh of watching dvds. Since James was a big movie fanatic. He always bought 5 to 10 dvds a week just for the race weekend. Everyone always had fun on the race weekends also.

James would then go to sleep and sleep well. He woke up at the first light of dawn so he could walk to the track and spend two hours testing and tweaking his motor cycle to get into perfect race condition. He had to learn quickly how to work on his motorcycle since he know nothing about mechanical things when he first started racing. Yes, he learned a lot in a short amount of time. SO as it turned out the racing was the easy part and the preparation for the race was the hard part since it took a lot of James time. The races would last an hour. After the race James would take a shower and have a snake of fruit salad and soda. That would help him relax while he watched a film of the race so he could dissect his performance. So he could get better for the next race. He always did anything he could to improve as a competitor and worked as hard as he could to get better. And that was one thing that James was good at and the was working hard and he was sure it would payoff in his racing. The end

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