Note the look on the faces of the guys in the picture, they realized they mistakenly walked into a free proctology screening.
Registration was "suppose" to open at 10:00... but they were running late, so time for a power nap!
It's official... I'm a certified PIT TOOTSIE... With Tootsie Credentials!!!
From left to right is Jeff (Big Pit), Karen (Flea) , Kathy (Peanut) and Jerry (Just Jerry). You should note that Jerry looks like he has leg warmers on... he doesn't... that's just mud stuck to matted hair on his legs. Somebody get that man a razor!
Right now, the mud isn't as sticky as it was in Madison... but the pit will be a busy place for the next several days.
Today the course took on a whole new look after taking on a steady day of rain. Since the course is set right next to the Ohio River, the water table is such that any rain will automatically sit on top of the course and that's what we saw today.
The course designers were in a full scale scramble trying to make course adjustments. The original course layout with all the mud, turned the lap times into something that would need to be tracked with a calendar vs. a stop watch... so they made some course edits. They removed some of the sand sections and left the tricky off camber muddy sections in place. No matter what they do, with Mother Natures help... there's still plenty of pain to go around.
For me course check out was a series of de'ja vu type events.
Tom would shout... "Kathy, you can ride this section"... followed by me immediately Supermaning over the handle bars after failing to negotiate a steep muddy section and ending up in a heap at the bottom of a muddy hill. After much swearing, I would mutter that I would much prefer to just run the damned thing!
As you can see from the pictures... I had more mud on me, than anyone in the group. It turns out Karen is the smartest of the bunch... she waits until I crash and then determines how she will ride her lines.
By Sunday it will be very different, so we have plenty of time to figure things out... either way, I like the way the course is shaking out.
So... tomorrow, it's all about Tom's pre-qualification race. So, Big Pit will be in charge and and Karen and I will be the Pit Tootsies... doing whateeeeeeever!
Talk to you all soon.
Kath
