ProSolo Test and Tune

Friday traffic going from my house to El Toro has always been bad. In the past, I would leave around noon and make my way down to El Toro and the drive would take 2-2.5 hours. When there is no traffic, this is a 1.25 hour drive. With me being my own boss now instead of reporting to somebody else, I decide that I'm going to leave earlier - like 11AM instead. This helps. I'm not in a rush and arrive before all activities start. The drive is still a little over two hours. It seems like it's a Friday thing with the traffic.

Jason is working and I'm left to prep the car by myself. I'm not the mechanical one and getting my hands dirty is fine. I'm trying to learn more about the car and it's setup/adjustments. It's odd working on the car by myself. I'm not used to not having Jason around to help prep the car.

Jon arrives and helps prep our ECU for the event with our 'secret weapon'.

The car is prepped and I buy my practice starts. I'm finding that the surface is very slippery and the front wheels are spinning more than usual. After I finish my practice starts, I decide to abandon any more practices. I have not found any rhythm to starting, with my reaction times all over the place. I need to just not worry about it and deal with it tomorrow.

I swap tires and start packing the car. I'm done for the day and start taking pictures. While I'm out and about, I hear an announcement that they are looking for an event photographer. I've never done that position before and I like taking pictures, so silly me, I go and volunteer.

It turns out that with this work assignment, I'm expected to be taking pictures of everybody. That means working all the time that I'm not running. She was even kind enough to ask if I wanted to also still work the computer (my original work assignment). I politely declined. This should still be fun. I usually take pictures of people. This time, I'm to take pictures of cars as well - cool.

Jason arrives after work and we walk both sides of the course. This is a variation of a previous ProSolo course by Tom Berry - only this one is a whole lot more difficult than any previous course and they previous ones were hard already. Ouch. Tom made sure to leave us lots of room to hang ourselves - choice of line, entry speed, braking points, apex - pretty much everything was open to selection. This will be a very challenging weekend.

After the walks, we head off to dinner with the SF contingent and introduce them to Mochilato. I think they may revisit Mochilato again tomorrow.