Race Report 3

Scott Rohlfing

SMRacing

7-20-14

WEDRON, IL 

    It was a weird start to the day not being me and my dad racing and bringing mom instead. But, due to football practice starting up we wouldn't make it back in time for him to make the start of practice. But, mom did a great job filling in! The drive up was a little stressful. You know when you're always told the saying "When you come to a fork in the road, take the one less traveled"? Yeah, don't apply that driving... We ended up swerving all about country roads for an hour and a half before finally reaching a highway. To later find out I saved a whole $1.90 in tolls... Life lessons right? So, there's one lesson learned thus far on this day. 

   After arrival everything was going very smoothly, we unloaded, signed up, and had an hour to check out the track. When race time came I felt great! My training has been on point and my bike was working well. My new FMF Fatty pipe looked beautiful, sounded gorgeous, and performs better than it looks and sounds! So, off the start I was in about 6th place and by the end of the first lap I had worked up to the lead. It wasn't long after when I began to suffer from arm pump. It doesn't matter how good of shape you are in! IF YOU DEVELOP ARM PUMP YOU CAN NOT RACE A DIRT BIKE WELL! That's what happened. I fell off the face of the Earth for the first hour after that. I stopped and shook out my arms at the end of each lap, and mom was great and helped stretch them out too, but of course my lead was gone at that point. Around the 55min mark I began to feel better; and the last hour I found my groove! I felt awesome and I think it was the best hour I've raced all year. I'm not happy with the place I finished, but I'm happy that I know I can run at the top when the forearms are well. Just more motivation. Thanks mom for being a great substitute at the track today, couldn't have done it without you! Also, very thankful to my sponsors Asterisk, AXO, FMF, Decal Works, Smith Optics, Renthal, and Cycra. Finally, I couldn't do this without the man above, my Savior and Lord, for answering my prayers and keeping us all safe out there today, and bringing us home safely. 

Things to work on:

Arm Pump-  

                Cardiovascular Training- to help with the Venous Flow of the blood out of the muscles.  

                

                 Myofascial Release- Working on the fascial tissue stretching it out by using my Rogue WodFloss band, rolling the forearm out, and stretching. 

                

                 Strength- Working on strengthening the fingers with a grip exerciser. 

                

                 Lactate Acid Release- Ice bathe the arms for two day prior to my event to help out with getting rid of the Lactate Acid build up in the muscle.  

        This will be the next step in obtaining that position "On Top of the Box!" 

Thanks for reading!