My first race weekend!! I think I must have had "new racer syndrome" where I was scrambling at the last minute to get things ready to go, get the bike ready and generally just not getting any sleep. Up past 1 AM the night before, and finally managing to roll out to the track Saturday morning. I can deal with it, but I HATE last minute scrambles like that for stuff that I should have had together WAY before that....prefer to save my scrambles for the unforeseen! Either way, made it to the track Saturday and with a HUGE amount of assistance from my AFM mentor, Rory Kamper, got registered, made it through tech, went to the rider's meeting and managed to get the bike ready. Eventually made it out for the second practice round for my group. That round felt good, made sure I was still solid on what I had worked on when I was out there on Wednesday for the 3J's trackday, and felt ready to put the final touches on my braking the next practice. Went out for the next practi...