Sunday morning we showed up at Mid America Motorplex in western Iowa at a place called Pacific Junction. I think the name comes from the Pacific Railway which is nearby. While we were there we saw several long long trains go by. The day started rainy and windy with winds probably a steady 30 miles and hour. We appreciated the wind when it came to drying the track but I didn't even try to ride my bike around the course. The couple competitors who did try to ride bikes to recon the track walked their bikes most of the way. Just a note on the bikes, there are only a handful of us who bring bikes because it is sometimes a challenge to have enough time to walk the track. Others walk, run, jog, or scooter around or just hope their out lap for reconnaissance is enough. Most tracks you can't get a view of the whole track because of elevation changes, trees etc. At Mid America Motorplex there no trees of note and there is absolutely no elevation change but at over 2.23 miles you still can't see the whole track very well even from the top of the grandstands.
I had an excellent run in the morning and came in 11th and not quite as good in the afternoon in 18 place. Because of finishing fairly well in the wet skid pad and the oval track that was good enough to move us up to 12th place overall. In our qualifying run back at Autobahn we finished 28th and with the competition, that is probably a fair rating of where we really rank in the whole field. The high finishing in the first two events propelled us forward but it might be tough holding on to as the week wears on. At this point I am a couple of positions ahead of Scott Breneman and we have a great competition going on and are that close that we are in the same run group.
Now it's off to Hallet in Oklahoma only about 450 miles away, then one of the biggest legs of the trip out to High Plains Raceway in Colorado with over 600 highway miles.
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