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I guess I'm really behind the ball with this update, but I was waiting on some more pictures from Vadim and they never came.

I hadn't been to VIR is something like 3 years, way back on my F4i. Needless to say I am a completely different racer now, so for all extensive purposes I was learning a new track on a race day. It wasn't my idea of fun.

I started off the day running a session lap time of 2:10 and ended up finishing the weekend with times around 1:50 flat. There was a lot of improvement as the weekend went on.

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Last week I got a chance to try out my new bicycle as a commuting implement. [I told you I got a new bicycle, didn't I?.. woops] It was a total blast. There is a very active [but poorly attended] cycling club here at work that is always planning rides around the area on the weekends. They arranged for a 'commute' to work complete with Police escort from close to my house and I thought, "Why not"

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Wow, what a great weekend!

This memorial day I took off Friday and spent all day getting myself prepared for a full weekend of racing and boy was I excited. Jenn and Vadim were on their way back from work, and I had the car all loaded with about 2 cubic feet to fit Vadim into. [poor guy]. Not only was this weekend a chance for me to get to the track, but it was my first CCS race weekend. [Checkered flags, trophies, the whole 9 yards]

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Well Bob, you wanted a challenge, so here it goes.
It is a well known fact that starting in the early 70s, NHL players would stop shaving during the playoffs as good luck charm. This quickly grew into a fad that the fans started partaking in, to wish their team good luck.

I have begun to cheer on the Philadelphia Flyers as they tackle Washington in the first round of the playoffs. It's been about 4 years since I attempted to grow out a beard... little did I know what I was getting myself into when I decided not to shave.
[This is after 5 days of playoffs]

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Well here you have it, the finished product.

As you can see there is the addition of the Zelda Hyrullian shield on the top tank of the bike, which Jenn and I painted on last night, in addition to the twilight princess wolf from before on the side. It looks AWESOME.

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Jenn has started the next/last phase of painting the racing SV this weekend. This includes created the stencil cutouts to sponge paint the Hyrulian crest on the top of the tank.

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Painting is in full swing and continuing on my race bike. Jenn broke out the paints last night and started the first coat and first color of the Twilight Princess pattern for the upper fairing.

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