Steven Wong – USA Trip – Report

As many of you know I left to USA for a training camp and some races. 
Well everything has been good so far, we been having some cold and 
funny weather but seems like everything is clearing up now.
I also had my first race last weekend. The weekend I have been waiting 
for, for a while now to have a little test to see where im at with my 
training.

Saturdays race wasn’t that great I can even say bad I think. kind of 
bummed I have to write it this way but nothing was working. I felt so 
awkward on racing in this new environment and it being the first race 
of the season didn’t really help that. Then also I totally  choose the 
wrong gear… it was slightly to heavy for the part after the first 
jump and i kept me every time in the middle of the pack. Because this 
was my first race I still felt so lost and I had no idea where to go 
and I was out in qualifications fast. Saturday was over for me and I 
really felt disappointed but I also knew where the problems where so 
on the other side I learned a lot of things as well.

after that first day I just got myself sorted out… put everything 
together in my head fixed my gears and got ready for sunday.

Sunday’s race came around and I was a totally different person… 
pumped to ride and show what im training for. First qualification 
started of bad actually. Came out of the gate first but the rider next 
to me made such a stupid move on me just before the first jump and we 
both almost crashed and i ended 7th. 2nd qualification I cleaned my 
act up had to come from lane 8 but allmost took the hole shot and had 
a nice solid lap ended 3rd. 3rd qualification was very interesting. I 
basically had to get 1st to qualify from lane 3. I just managed to get 
my whole package together and took the win in the last qualification 
and moved on to the main events.

then in my Quarter main I had such a good gate and i was close to the 
hole shot came out of the first turn 2nd and down the 2nd straight I 
had a nice battle going for 2nd/3rd but as soon as I wanted to set up 
the 2nd turn to keep 2nd place the guy in 4th made a nice move and put 
me in 5th where I finished and missed out on the semi final. Just a 
little mistake I made but the overall feeling for my first race is 
good for sunday at least.

I know where I am at now and for what kind of training I did before 
this race I’m perfect on schedule for this season. So I’m excited for 
next race to see if and feel my improvement.

greets out of cold and sometimes warm florida

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