One month later...

August was something of a quiet month. I had the races at Fontana (just saying the name brings a smile to my face...), and some dirt riding.

Ach, dirt riding. I have this big YZ426 motocrosser I tried to convert into a motard, but the darn thing is a bike-shaped money pit. It's not ready to race this weekend...

Whihc brings me to this weekend. Back to racing at ASMA after the summer break, and the Unlimited Superbike (ULSB) Amateur Class Championship is mine to win - Jim Wolkens and I are tied at 130 points apeice. Whichever of us finishes ahead of the other two out of the next three races will be the class champion - to me this is about as exciting as it gets.

Doing what I can to improve my chances, I've been in the gym doing cardio a lot this month, over 45 minutes a day, with light weight training, a lot of core-muscle stuff. I lost a whopping four pounds in August, which isn't getting me to my overall goal - but - I converted 9 lbs to muscle, improved my oxygen-transport (cardio) score, and lowered my body-fat percentage another two and a half percent. I'm running on a pretty high level of resistance on the elliptical for 45 min, and have a LOT of energy. This really looks good for me racing - I should have a lot of reserve and able to push hard (harder than my fellow racers, I hope) in the last few laps. It'll still be over 100 degrees in southern New Mexico (and it'll still be at 4100 feet) this weekend.

Back to the literary front - the last agency I sent Hell's Own to revised their response time to 12-15 weeks. Mid Sept will be 12 weeks, when I expect further rejection :)

SP4 Sparks will have to be my Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest entry this year, and if so, I need to get on my horse and alter the story some, bring it more in line with the Action-Adventure genre. Yeah, I slacked all summer, kinda starting a bunch of projects (novels) but not really doing much on them. So - get busy, Dave...

I'll post next weekend after the races.


dave