Practice was a baptism of fire for me, two laps in the bike died and I had to come in, I think it was a fuel problem as it started again and I went back out, then the first lap back out I was slowly going round druids with cold tyres when someone went round the outside of my and clipped my handle bars, sat me up and I ended up going all the way down the hill on the grass - very scary but managed to keep it upright.....just. Great start before my first ever race!

Then my first race Fontyyy did not mention he crashed trying to take me out cos I was in front of him!

I did my biggest school boy errors in a race within a race; having got past both Tom and Fontyy on what I thought was the last bend on the last lap and crossed the finish in front, I slowed up down paddock hill bend thinking the race was over really chuffed with myself only for them both to fly back past me - it hadnt finished at all! (I was so determined to get past them both ducked in behing the fairing I didnt look for the flag). Quite pleased I got back within a couple of tenths of a second but its still haunting me! Going into 6th gear coming out of Graham Hill bend didnt help either, thought I had seized it as it lost all power, raised my hand to stop only to see I was at about 3k rpm . All in a days racing I suppose!

Had a cracking time and looking forward to the next one, where are we going to race?

Big thanks to Wayne, Barry and Maxim for all your help and encouragement on our first race day.