I will try and be short and sweet and to the point. This week has been long with lots of challenges, and I am exhausted from mentally trying to deal with all of them. I am giving thanks that none of them involve poor health, death, or anything super serious. I am very disappointed in lots of people in my life. What is new right?
I had a lot of physical activities after several weeks of bleh. I had two walks, 3 runs, and one class. Going to have to abandon my Thursday classes for a bit since I will be busy on Thursday nights with football. Hoping I can keep this streak up but looks like the weather is going to go back to summer next week. Can we just hang on to fall for the rest of fall and not skip straight to winter???
Andrew had his first 7th grade football game. While I didn't have high hopes for him playing much thanks to him not subbing himself in during practice, we ended up blowing them out, meaning the second and third team got a whole half of playing time in. Andrew got to sub in on first team as well, which I love because they help him SO much when he is in with the starters. I know that he probably won't get much playing time every week due to us playing our better teams, but that is okay. At least now he is feeling more a part of the team. He said it was the best night of his life. Seeing him SO very happy made my momma heart super happy. He's been struggling with several of the kids on the team being not so nice, so to see them all sitting there laughing and having a great time as a team was a good sight.
We also had yet another night race. While I enjoy the fact that Tony has all day to work on the cars, something was not right with both cars this weekend and it showed. Tony was super late getting to the track which meant no practice time and then he fought set ups all night as it got very cool, and the track changed. Andrew decided he had no patience in the heavy 160 car and wrecked one of the slower cars with a bad pass and then passed another car on a restart, which meant he had to go straight to the pits with a big fat last place finish. We so needed a good finish in that car, but I am proud of him for pushing that car as hard as he could. We have the All-American Clash coming up this week so the few nights we can, we are going to practice. After the clash we have 3 more points races and the big 100 lapper. I am getting to the point where I am ready for this season to be done. We have talked about going to Las Vegas for a big race but at this point, I don't think we will be ready for that type of racing yet. Flat track racing isn't for the faint of heart and requires a new level of aggressiveness that we aren't quite at yet. Maybe next year.
I will end this with my disappointment. I as well as others volunteer hours and hours to this club and to race day. I love what I do, and I am damn good at it. Do I make mistakes? Yes. Am I human? Yes. Are you allowed to question me in a respectful manner and have a discussion about rules and why? Heck yes. What you are not allowed to do is yell and scream at me. I grew up in that environment where I had no way to get out and as an adult, you no longer get that right, and I get to walk away. Also, if I prove to you that you are wrong, I would like an apology admitting that. I get that people get frustrated and, in the moment, some people can't control their emotions. I appreciate apologies for outburst but walking away thinking you are still right when you aren't after I have given you every rule to prove the point makes me super sad. For ANYONE to think I try and screw ANY kid over makes me really, really sad. I am a rule follower to my very core, and I love all kids. Even when we had kids racing that I truly didn't like, I NEVER let them be treated anything but nice and followed every rule to the T when it came to their racing. I know I keep saying this but after a night of no sleep, I need to walk away. I would love to enjoy my kiddos last year of racing not being in the tower. The problem is, no one has stepped up and I fear no one will. This is my last term as secretary and I am walking away from the board as well this year and as of now, I have not heard of anyone who wants my spot. I would really like to train whomever but if no one wants it, not sure how this is going to go.
Have a great week y'all! Try not to melt!
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