Velocity Racing's 'Honey Badger' Blog

I was just going to do a quick Facebook post about the opening weekend with Pacific Track Time here in Northern California, but it started to get rather long and I was barely into the write up, so turned it into a blog post instead. I’m going to start with a spoiler though. If you’ve followed me at all, you know last year was tough with the whole situation with my leg. Most don’t know the real extent of it, and that’s fine, but the reality is even at the end of last year, when the scare was gone, my leg was still giving me a lot of trouble. I worked pretty darn hard this winter to keep at rehabbing my leg and body, while making sure I didn’t cause a new injury or aggravate an old one.  At the end of last year, I still couldn’t tolerate wearing my race boots between sessions, and my leg would swell up like a balloon at night, and was cranky for days afterwards. I’m stoked to report that I got home after the weekend, and my leg felt like it did on any normal day! N...

I'd say it's early in the planning stages for the coming season, but I'd be lying. The reality is that bike(s) are already getting torn down and put back together; sponsorship packages are already sent out; sponsors are already rolling in; parts are being bought; and wallets are cringing in fear. Okay, my wallet is past cringing. It's now curled up in the corner, crying and having seizures. And it has only started.  Taking a few of the lessons from last year, a few things have been in the works. For starters, the race team, which we had started under the honey badger name, is becoming official and we are working on a professional presence. We're still amateurs at this point, but we want to at least look like professional amateurs who are on their way to try some bigger things. The other stuff is a bit more personal. One lesson I learned the hard way this last year was in regards to bike set up. Finances were tight after medical bills started rolling in, an...

After the 6 th round of the season, I headed in that following Tuesday to have all the hardware removed from my leg that had been installed back in December 2016. I had scheduled surgery for that time for a couple reasons – 1) if things went well, then I’d have 3 ½ weeks to recover, which should be enough time for the bones to be relatively healed from the swiss cheese and 2) if things didn’t go well and there was more infection or it looked like it had done more damage, then I’d only be missing one more round instead of several. Surgery seemed to go well, and I was sent home with a bag full of titanium that we removed. I had four zippers on my leg, and about 100 staples holding it all together, but was released with “weight bearing as tolerated” with a warning to be very careful of a fall or hard hit, but told that “normal” activities shouldn’t cause a problem. Thankfully recovery seemed to be going well, so I signed up for the last round of the season. By the time t...