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« on: May 19, 2015, 02:34:46 PM »
Maybe it's because someone ran in front of you?
Lol that was interesting but I can't blame my poor driving that day on the marshal. How do you guys calm yourselves down before a run? I tried taking deep breaths, music etc. etc. nothing worked 
It's probably different for everyone. I go through my "pre-flight check" of seatbelt, parking brake off, A/C off, seat adjusted correctly. When I come to the start, I try to think about nothing other than the course elements, paying particular attention to the first few. And if you look at camera shots of me, I always take a deep breath, hunch up my shoulders, and let it out while relaxing my shoulders. Didn't even know I did that until I saw some camera shots of me 
I also do something similar where I close my eyes for a couple seconds and take a deep breath, usually it helps but on Sunday it definitely didn't. I had the strangest day ever on Sunday, opened up with a half decent 54.1 (but I hit a cone) and instead of building on that time and improving I couldn't even get back into the 54's the rest of the day. Couldn't get rid of the shakes/jitters and my driving reflected that. How do you guys calm yourselves down before a run? I tried taking deep breaths, music etc. etc. nothing worked
lol.
Just put a bigger muffler on your car, and some pink flowers or something. It looks and sounds like it wants to kill you and everybody else.
 I use a washer, bolt and wingnut to keep the exhaust valves on the muffler closed for events but for some reason the one on the passenger side fell off twice on Sunday. Thanks Murray!
I had the strangest day ever on Sunday, opened up with a half decent 54.1 (but I hit a cone) and instead of building on that time and improving I couldn't even get back into the 54's the rest of the day. Couldn't get rid of the shakes/jitters and my driving reflected that. How do you guys calm yourselves down before a run? I tried taking deep breaths, music etc. etc. nothing worked
If I feel less than focused I tend to try to get some fight-or-flight focus by hitting my chest and thighs a few times hard. It may not be for everyone, but seems to work alright for me. I also try to focus on a few key points on the course, after the event I marked them on a map and I will try to post it once I get home. Less thinking allows me to get in a better rhythm.
hitting my chest would of not helped me haha
528
« on: May 19, 2015, 09:16:36 AM »
Thanks Murray! I had the strangest day ever on Sunday, opened up with a half decent 54.1 (but I hit a cone) and instead of building on that time and improving I couldn't even get back into the 54's the rest of the day. Couldn't get rid of the shakes/jitters and my driving reflected that. How do you guys calm yourselves down before a run? I tried taking deep breaths, music etc. etc. nothing worked
529
« on: April 30, 2015, 12:18:56 PM »
Thanks a lot for the pictures Michael, great shots.
530
« on: April 29, 2015, 04:38:47 PM »
28 runs and you've used up more than half of the useable tread on a street tire  that seems excessive to me. My slicks don't even wear that fast. But as Murray said Fort MacLeod likes to chew up tires faster than normal asphalt. At the school you can expect to do quite a few runs. If I remember correctly there is 4 separate "sessions" per day with 6 runs each (4 driven by you, 2 by instructor) for a total of 24. If you do both intro & comp schools expect ~50 runs over the weekend. Though the courses are shorter than our typical competition courses (I think around 30-40 seconds).
531
« on: April 27, 2015, 09:16:33 AM »
Thanks for getting the results up so quick (as usual) Murray.
I really enjoyed the course yesterday.
532
« on: April 27, 2015, 08:33:30 AM »
There were two folks that talked to me yesterday who signed up for membership online but I didn't have a card for them, what were your names. Please PM me if you don't want to post on here.
533
« on: April 24, 2015, 05:43:13 PM »
Wish I could come and help but I'm struggling to put the car back together for Sunday's race.
534
« on: April 17, 2015, 05:28:17 PM »
I'd like to try my hand at a course design if you wouldn't mind sending me a base map Reijo. Maybe a wide-car-friendly type of course 
535
« on: April 14, 2015, 10:27:03 AM »
Congrats Jo, Murray, Wayne & Cam, very impressive.
Cam you were driving a 350Z, what happened to your Miata?
536
« on: April 10, 2015, 06:01:25 PM »
Thanks majormojo, assuming those were taken at the same zoom level then the West Crossroads Church lot appears to be roughly the same size as the Westerner lot.
537
« on: April 10, 2015, 12:00:46 PM »
Anybody have any pictures and locations of Springbrook/Harvard and Cross Roads Church? I thought RDSCC only ran at Westerner.
538
« on: April 06, 2015, 04:15:06 PM »
FYI to all. I will be working on the membership cards this year. Still need to get together with Jo to see how's it's done but it's my goal to have them done for the first event in a few weeks.
539
« on: March 19, 2015, 04:07:48 PM »
Good luck guys!
540
« on: March 14, 2015, 09:56:42 PM »
I also agree let's play it safe. Thanks for checking the ice thickness today Reijo.
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