Day 1 Nationals, Lincoln Nebraska

Boy, this is an interesting start to Nationals. I'm woken up at around 3am by a large racket outside the hotel. I get up and take a look and it's pouring cats and dogs. I can also see lightning in the sky. I wonder how the event will turn out.

It turns out that the rain had sorta stopped by morning. However the rain stopped late enough that the ground was still very wet. Neelu was running on the East course in the first heat. I was over there helping her as Jason prepared the Civic for the West course in heat 2.




As you can see, it's pretty wet still. The rain did not dampen Neelu's spirits one iota.

Anyhow, it turned out to be a one run day with the course drying out as each run finished. We have the opportunity to run the more challenging and transitional course in the wet under constantly changing conditions. It's a course that doesn't really permit wide open throttle through just about all of it, but rather modulation and patience. Add in varying conditions on the surface and it definitely made it a very challenging morning.



Our times are there, top 10 raw times, but the pesky cone jumped out of nowhere to keep us out of the top for the day. This is going to hurt for tomorrow.



Angela is still getting used to the Civic, but is enjoying herself tremendously. Her runs are in the dry and she excited.