Day 132 Oak Hill Raceway 2019

This video contains jumps, crashes, a lot of 4-stroken with a touch of 2-stroke action right at the end. It also contains a one or two lap clip of me getting my tail kicked by Tallon Reed who was riding an 80cc! Featured in this video are Alec, Tallon, Chris, Blake and a few other people I don't yet know by name.

[@chrisr.1391]

Miss hanging out at the track with you Jason. We had some fun times.

[@jtbrower]

I agree fully. I miss seeing you and your son, I miss smelling the dirt in the air, feeling the enthusiasm that I felt on the way to the track and while gearing up to ride. I miss experiencing adrenaline pumping things I never in a million years thought I’d be doing on 2 wheels and believe it or not I even miss slamming into the ground hard enough to caution me by just shy of being out of the sport while recovering. I had a bad luck window between June of 2017 and Sept 2019 with injuries that led to 6 significant surgeries, plus a torn MCL/Quad, Broken Ankle and broken ribs that put me in timeout too. Until Sept 2019, not one injury made me second guess jumping back on the seat until I spent time in the ICU watching other people recover and I decided to quit to save my parents heartache. Yet after a couple months I was already wanting to return and then the sudden and serious pain that began late December of 19 or early January 2020 took the thought out of my mind while leaving the chance on the table to return. Then nothing drove the nails of not returning deeper than the treatment I have received from January 2020 through to present day. I never thought western medicine would lead to such complications in two of three surgeries where some could have been avoided. I never thought it would be so tough to get help based on the fact that my injury was risky for a surgeon to repair. I always felt that a doctors duty was to help patients. I understand that they want perfect surgical records and outcomes, but it every surgeon had that philosophy, only patients with marginal pathologies would be treated. I have been trying for one year to have a muscle biopsy performed as requested by multiple physicians. I even switched insurance to make it happen, finally got on the appointment books with the neurologist and they cancelled indicating that the insurances referral was no longer valid when in fact a call to them indicated it was. That reminds me. They hadn’t responded to my patient portal message, I better give them another call and see if I can scurry this along. Never in my lifetime would I have thought an injury 6 days shy of 2.5 years would still be holding me back. I can walk and act normal so nobody would ever know how much it still affects me. I have recovered from countless serious injuries in my lifetime, yet this one has been a real challenge. Somehow I am confident I’ll get back to “normal” or maybe I should say I have blind faith I’ll not live in serious pain daily, once they figure out why my back, ribcage and stomach burn like fire with such intensity it dwarfs any myalgia I felt in the worse workout recovery from my prior ex-NBA trainer who kicked my tail in shape. Something is seriously off; I don’t know if it’s just damage from the 3 surgeries packed into 9 months or my muscles ripping on the three rods you can easily feel under the tissue. Back to riding, I really miss it, miss seeing you guys, but the medical care I have gotten / not gotten is what I fear the most should I ever fully recover enough to where I second guessed quitting the sport. I never say never though.