BMX Rider Sarah Walker Update
19 May 2008
We have been in Phoenix, Arizona (America) for the past few days training here between the last Supercross and the World Champs.
It’s been super hot everyday so far with the exception of a random storm that lasted about an hour.
So far we have been to two of the four tracks around here. The first one we went to was called Speedworld. It had a very small start hill that took a bit to get wound up on. The pro section was the coolest part of the track as it had four decent sized jumps that curved around right around the back of the first corner. I worked on doing some double manuals through the rhythm section and some jumps around the rest of the track. I didn’t give the gate a go as it was an ABA gate which doesn’t have beeps so it was pretty scary to go on.
The other track we went to was just down the road from where we’re staying. That track was a lot more fun. The start hill was a LITTLE bigger but the track was much better. The surface of the track was so smooth and the second straight was fun. The gate was better because they had a UCI Random call which dropped when it should. Me and Dane were doing gate against each other. I'd beat him out of the gate and then he'd come back past me down the first straight but then I'd come under him in the first corner to give him some elbow. Marc was doing gates against some fast guys and if it wasn't for Dane, I wouldn't have had such a good training session.
We have been to dinner with Bubba Harris and his girlfriend (Kasey) a couple of times. Last night we went to a place called Sushi and Steak. It was such a cool place where they cooked your food in front of you. The cook was really funny and had a whole bunch of tricks up his sleeve. He started off by getting some eggs and spinning them on the table. While the eggs were spinning, he popped an egg up onto the spatula and did a full 360 with the egg still spinning. Then he flipped it into the air and as it came down, he split it in half and the yolk landed on the cooker. After that, he started with the rice and was adding a mixture of all different sauces. It tasted so good and while we were eating that, he started on the shrimp, steak and chicken. He cut up some meat into small pieces and went around the table one by one, flipping the meat off the spatula into the air and we had to catch it in our mouths. If we missed, the cook would attempt a “slam dunk” which meant we had to open our mouths and he would try to shoot one in. We had two goes each before our dinner was ready. The steak and chicken was so good. We will definitely be going back there again.
The other dinner, we went out to a Buffalo Wings House where they had heaps of TV’s up around the Restaurant with all different sports on it. They even had little blue boxes that you could play poker against other people who were having dinner. The wings were nice but the ones that Bubba and Kasey got were extremely hot and they weren’t even close to being the hottest wings they had there. Apparently, if you eat 5 of the hottest wings there, you get a t-shirt.
We are here for another week before heading to the World Champs in China.
Things are going great over here. Hope things are going great for you.
Thanks,
Sarah
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