Hurry up....and wait!

When we prepare to go to the track for a race, we first have to determine if we will be driving up on Friday or early Saturday and staying overnight until Sunday.  Once this is decided we can load up the motorhome with supplies. Water, food for all meals and snacks, toys, gaming systems, books, crayons pretty much anything and everything that will keep thre children entertained during the down time of racing.  You're probably wondering how can racing possibly have down time.  Well here goes.

Liam and Jeremy each race in one class which has two heats (an am race and an pm race).  This schedule can make for a very long day.  Especially with a diva toddler.  Gates open at 5:30am, registration is from 6am until 8:30am, a mandatory riders meeting at the tower is at 9am.  Practice immediately follows the meeting.    Racing begins at 10am, NOW...

The list race order is determined early on, before the season begins.  After getting there and registering the boys entertain themselves and help Sean ready the bike.  I entertain my daughter and try to keep her out of the way and happy.  This can be difficult at times, no amount of toys or goodies will do.

Once practice is done we, run to get Liam to the prepared to race.  His race is second in the schedule and Jeremy is right after him.  Once both boys have raced we wait and wait and wait then watch the other classes race, then there is a one hour break-after all everyone needs lunch.  Now from the time the boys have raced it's been about four hours.  After the break, bellies full, racing begins again. 

Then it's on to round two, Sydney is usually sleeping in her stroller until it's time for her brothers to ride.  She gets very excited to watch them and claps happily everytime they ride by her.  She thinks they can see her and I'm sure they can but they are too busy keeping in on two wheels.  Once they are done, we wait for the results, times and standings if they are ready.  Now it's about 3pm (remember we started at 4am, in the car with 3 kids and dogs) 6am if we stayed overnight at a nearby campground, Rivers Edge Campground and ATV Park.  Which thankfully is only about 15 minutes down the road.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell folks.  The good the bad and the unproductive.  It's always nice when people come to cheer them on. It also breaks up the waiting around.