So,just in case it works out for us (Alessandra and daddy) to go to Florida for the Strider World Cup Championships in October we needed to find an event that we could make it to to get her qualified. Rockford Illinois was the next one on the calendar that was viable for us (it was right around the last week that the doctors said that flying wouldn't be an issue for Erika and Gianluca), so we booked our flights, and on June 20th we were off to Chicago. We took off for Rockford the next afternoon, and headed for the hotel (with an indoor pool), which was probably more exciting for Alessandra than the race. We had our usual good time in the pool after checking in, and then headed into town for dinner. Not much to see. We woke up early the next day to the sound of raindrops- steady rain actually. Oh no, we didn't come all this way to get rained out did we? After getting Alessandra excited all morning about racing in the rain we arrived at the track as the skies started to clear. Great. Well, not so great. All of the rain in the morning delayed the race almost three hours, and we were not prepared for waiting around at a crowded event with two little kids. Thank goodness for the park across the street from the track, and the leftovers in the car. Somehow the rain stayed away, and we were able to wait it out at the park, but then when it was finally time to go back and race Alessandra said "I DON'T WANT TO RACE". Of course it's now mid-afternoon, and neither have had their usual nap, and things weren't looking too good. Luckily the walk back to the track was short, and as as soon as Alessandra saw the other kids getting ready at the Strider tent she got pumped up immediately. "DADDY,DADDY- Put my full face helmet on now! And we were back on track (literally).
The track was really cool, but the event (for the Striders anyway) ended up being pretty disappointing. They only used a very small portion of the track for them (about 1/4 the length of our home track), and the organization was very poor (a lot probably had to do with the rain delays, but very disappointing nonetheless). They broke up the 3 year old Striders into two separate sets of motos, and scored them together (i.e. there were about 10 Striders in the 3 yr old class, but she only raced against 5). She finished 2nd in her 3 motos, but ended up fourth overall. She had a good time, and she did well. What more can you ask for? Load em' up, and head back to Chicago!
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