4th of July and K1 Speed

I know this post is a tad late, but I've been pretty busy. Busy is a good thing, but exhausting. Okay, enough with the "woe is me" and on to the subject of this blog.

As some of you know, 4th of July is Sherrie's birthday, so we do not celebrate Independence Day (although we do acknowledge its existence, I think) it is time to celebrate Sherrie's birth. This year we didn't think we were going to be able to have any sort of event to celebrate her day, but God smiled on us and we were able to pull off a little something.

We went to K1 Speed in Anaheim to ride go-karts! This was some of the most fun I've had in a long time. They give you helmets and these things get up to around 30 mph, I think...it's sick! Speaking of sick, Sherrie got a little queasy after the 2nd race and didn't participate in the 3rd race. I think she was so embarrassed by the butt kicking I gave her on the first race that she wasn't up for another.

So we get there and it's not very busy which was great. We had to sign up and register our "licenses" so that we could race. We only booked one race and if we liked it (which we did) we could book 2 more races for a discounted fee. We all signed up (big ups to Jana'e, Ammon, Rahimah and Jascha for coming out) and waited for our group to be called. We finally heard our names and walked up to the race track gate. In front of us were 4 dudes that I guess come every weekend or something and they were going to race with us. We each get what looks like a ski mask to put on and then we put on our helmets.

We were assigned cars and given a quick lesson on how to drive them. Finally it's time to race; they lead us on the track one by one in a single file line. Your car only goes a certain amount of speed until everyone is on the track and then BAM! the speed kicks in and you're off and running.

The first lap is always the slowest because the speed doesn't kick in until 1/4 of the way through the track and you're getting a feel for the track as well. After that first lap and after I got a feel for the track...it was on! I zipped around that track and lapped a few people and slid around corners and I never spun out or hit the wall.


When all was said and done the scores were as follows (straight from the K1 Speed site):

rank	racer	best lap	average lap	gap	lap	pro score	change	xp score
1	Ramiro Ruelas	34.83	40.97	34.83	14	108.46	8.16	133
2	Milo Ruelas	35.01	38.91	0.18	14	124.17	4.16	143
3	Juan Gomez	35.40	40.51	0.57	14	105.35	4.06	129
4	christian avila	36.45	38.82	1.62	14	98.16	2.66	121
5	Isaac Diaz	39.43	45.25	4.60	11	100.19	0.19	109
6	Sherrie Robertson	40.05	46.33	5.23	11	98.19	-1.81	107
7	Janae Thompson	40.33	45.22	5.51	12	96.19	-3.81	105
8	Ammon Holmes	43.28	48.75	8.45	11	94.19	-5.81	103
9	Rahimah Shah	44.89	49.75	10.06	10	92.19	-7.81	101

As you can clearly see, I was tops in our group. This after all kinds of trash talking from Sherrie about how she's done this before and was going to smoke me! Yeah, who's laughing now? I show no mercy, even if it's your birthday.

Although the first race was nice, the second wasn't so great. After a nice showing in the first race, a guy that worked there said, "I put you in front for a reason..you better win, Isaac!". All this pressure was intense and on top of that I get a car that didn't go nearly as fast as my first one. The following are those results:

rank	racer	best lap	average lap	gap	lap	pro score	change	xp score
1	Colin Buff	35.03	36.64	35.03	14	118.37	4.96	145
2	dalton rayburn	35.30	37.66	0.28	14	111.02	3.41	137
3	Rahimah Shah	37.27	43.03	2.25	13	94.84	2.65	110
4	Ammon Holmes	38.16	40.05	3.13	13	94.68	0.49	110
5	Sherrie Robertson	39.16	42.29	4.13	14	96.36	-1.83	112
6	Janae Thompson	39.66	44.84	4.63	13	92.52	-3.67	108
7	Isaac Diaz	42.71	44.65	7.68	13	94.20	-5.99

I mean come on, really, Rahimah was 1st in our crew and I was last? That was the worst car I could've been given, but I'm sucking it up and accepting the results.

I fared much better in the 3rd race eventhough there were like 1,000 people on the track (actually 15). It was so crowded, it was ridiculous, but I eventually pulled away from the pack and turned in a pretty good score:

rank	racer	best lap	average lap	gap	lap	pro score	change	xp score
1	Luigi	33.93	37.20	33.93	14	205.44	2.38	165
2	Allan Pittman	34.83	38.44	0.90	14	113.08	12.67	127
3	Xavier Espinosa	35.54	38.78	1.61	14	124.09	8.15	153
4	Isaac Diaz	35.99	40.35	2.07	13	103.88	9.68	134
5	Andy Yang	36.11	39.36	2.18	13	103.77	7.32	121
6	Terry Richardson	36.54	40.12	2.61	14	109.75	3.75	133
7	Jessica Salazar	37.16	41.63	3.24	14	104.41	2.41	127
8	Ammon Holmes	37.42	41.54	3.50	13	96.29	1.61	126
9	Rahimah Shah	37.55	43.00	3.62	13	94.42	-0.42	124
10	Reed Stevens	37.80	40.99	3.87	14	104.32	-4.75	121
11	Andres Aguirre	38.86	44.00	4.94	12	94.74	-5.26	109
12	Jean Paul Espinosa	38.89	43.83	4.96	11	89.37	-6.61	107
13	TERINA RICHARDSON	39.10	45.22	5.17	13	87.39	-8.61	109
14	Janae Thompson	39.33	43.68	5.41	13	82.48	-10.04	112
15	Carlos Santa Cruz	40.05	48.32	6.12	12	81.72	-12.28	103

After all that racing we went to Downtown Disney where a friend hooked us up at the House of Blues. It was good food, good friends and fireworks...a nice day overall and I think Sherrie had a great time (which is all that matters) on her birthday.

In closing, if anyone wants to challenge me to a race at K1...bring it! I'll take anyone, anywhere, anytime...plus after that last race I'm a little full of myself. So if you're feeling brave...hit me up!