We went out to California on the Friday before the race to get some running in for preparation. We had an awesome three days at Thunder Alley practicing and then was time to focus on the race.

Waking up Tuesday morning, I felt totally fine. By around lunch time at the track, I had some serious chills and overall pretty much couldn’t do much so went back to the hotel and tried to get better for practice day. Woke up and tried to tough it out on practice day not feeling awesome and stayed for 7/8 runs, but once the sun went down so did my body, I was done. So again, had to leave a little early trying to get better for the next day.

Woke up Thursday basically unable to function with flu like symptoms but some of the worst I’ve ever experienced. Instead of going to the track, I headed to the hospital and tried to get myself fixed up. Covid test and flu test were both negative, so they gave me a couple IV’s and sent me on my way. I decided to go to the track and try to catch the second round of qualifying, which I did and overall felt halfway decent the rest of the night.

Again waking up Friday, I was back to square one feeling terrible again. So I decided to stay in the hotel and try to do what I could to get better. Unfortunately, I never made it back to the track and had to withdraw from the event, something I’ve never had to do in my racing career before. 👎

I’m home now and went to the doctor, and he is chalking it up to some sort of random virus I caught out there. No way of really knowing more than that at this point.

A huge thank you to my team for the support doing what they could for me all week and all of the people that reached out to me to check on me throughout the week, that meant a lot! Anyone who knows me knows that if I could have stuck it out, I would have. I just couldn’t physically do it this time. 🤒

My apologies to all of my sponsors and supporters for this one, but I guess it happens from time to time. I’ll get better and be back ready for the next one!

Here’s a few photos from practice to enjoy from Hannah/Jconcepts. See y’all at PNB 👍

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