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Spring break started off great with a trip down to sunny Daytona Beach Florida to
the 1st ever RC's Daytona Supercross Championship inside the International Speedway on the the same track the professionals raced the night before on
SPEED TV during world famous Bike Week. The best place to be this time of year.
 
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The Year 2009 - " Ramping Up the Race"   
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Started out in the cold, wet month of January finding it tough to get some track
time around Chattanooga, TN so we went south to Little Power Sports way down
in Alabama and raced with Robbie Vall also trying to get some good riding time
across the southland tracks during the cold winter months.
As Febuary rolled in, so did the Big Chill Showdown at Millcreek MX featuring the
best riders representing the North and the South competing in the yearly team series final. On some days the weather was nice and we got some good race
time at Bremen MX in the Frozen Winter Series.While getting some personal
training from Shae Bentley, 2002 Supercross National Champion, I suffered a
broken arm at Grant Ransdale's traning facility working on some high speed rut
training.
It wasn't a break as much as it was a crack and I was out of the cast on
back on the bike in 6 weeks thanks to good steak knife I found in the kitchen.
April was here before I knew it. My arm felt fine. It was time to prepare for the Loretta Lynn Area Qualifiers in the southeast at Bremen MX and Muddy Creek Raceway and the mideast at Thunder Valley MX.
I also raced in two(2) more Loretta Lynn Area Qualifiers in May. One in the
southeast at Bremen MX Park and another in the northeast at Action Town MX in Virginia where I met Issiah Simmons and his family.
I qualified for the SE, NE, and ME Regionals but broke my other arm in practice on friday at the ME Youth Regional Championship at Spring Creek MX in Ohio and had to come home. This time it was really more of a crack instead of a break and I was back on the bike in only a few weeks but had to miss the other regionals.
Spent my time getting back to race form by racing the Summer South Series at
CMX and night racing in the Moto Madness Series at Bremen MX. In July, I raced
in the Kawasaki Tennessee State Championship at Muddy Creek Raceway.
My friend, Jake Hansford, from Prairie Village, Kansas came to see me for a week
to do some riding on some of our track around Chattanooga. We rode a Benefit
Race at at ChrisCross MX in Alabama.
I made my second trip to the NMA Grand National Motocross Championship in
Ponca City, Oklahoma. I met Josh Mefford, from Missouri, and we hung out some around the pits and at the hotel pool between races. His family invited us back to Missouri for a weekend night race in Kingsville, Missouri. We finished off the rest
of August racing back home at CMX in the Summer South Series and at Thunder Valley MX in the Southern All-Stars Series.
In September we raced at Millcreek MX in the Challenger's Cup and the SAS
Series at Muddy Creek Raceway.
With fall in the air and the leaves starting to turn, we loaded up our trailer and headed to the Vurb Moto Pro-Am at Bremen MX Park.
As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, we gathered our racing gear for the 2nd year in a row and headed to Gatorback Cycle Park for the Winter National Olympics (Mini-O's) in Gainsville, Florida.
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