Yeeeeeehaw!

I managed to suppress the butterflies in my belly long enough to get
a start that wasn't terrible, I think being in the last row helped
because I didn't have to worry about getting rammed from behind.

As I was coming into turn one I noticed that my seat wasn't attached 
to the bike when the seat and I slid back about four inches. In turn 
two it slid back so far that I thought I was a goner but, after a 
couple of laps I managed to get it locked back into position and could 
start concentrating on trying to reel in Greg Creech #927 who'd pulled 
a pretty good lead on me.

It took me about two laps to chase Greg down but I pulled under him
on turn one (I couldn't have done it without all his pre-race advice
:) and after lapping a couple of slow movers I got by the next guy on
the inside of turn seven.

Then I saw Jim Race #610 a little ways ahead and decided that he was
mine! (I was getting excited). I managed to out brake him into eleven
and nearly paid the price for it when my rear tire last traction
towards the exit. It finally hooked back up and I looked back to say,
"Hey, did you see that?" but, he was right on my butt so, I proceeded 
to do the two hottest laps of my life (nearly, highsiding once in the 
chicane).

I started 49th and finished 33rd with a best lap time of 2:15 (for
both of my last two laps) and I'm still doing the happy dance.

...Racing is fun!