Personal History
Growing up I have always loved dirtbikes, my parents got me into it when I was still a toddler and they couldn't get me off the bike. Unfortunaly a car accident took my father away when I was 5 years old, leaving my family heartbroken, and my mother to raise my older sister and myself. She did the best she could to fill the void and to let us be kids also, but when she met my now step dad she had the support behind her. Even through it all she never stop beleiving in my sister or I even though we were young kids. We eventually moved to Rilfe CO where we all live currently, my mother got us involved in school sports even more then we were but we all kept riding dirtbikes when we could. My sister traveled all over the country playing volleyball while she was in high school and we all supported her, once she got closer to her junior year my step dad asked if I wanted to go try a dirtbike race, I always wanted to race so I had to say yes! A few weeks before I got my first 85 and we rode all day after work and on the weekends to get me adapted to the bike, at that time I never took riding with much seriousness because we never had the time to race so it was very hard to figure out what I was doing and learn the new bike. The race was not very good at all, I ended up not finishing due to a crash but I had so much fun doing it, so my step dad started looking into offroad races that were more local and we started to go to a few of them in Montrose CO. They were an endurocross series that ran a few races and we went to all of them, but still I didn't finish until the last race. With a solid baseline my parents asked if this is something I actually wanted to do or if I wanted to just ride for fun, but the dream of racing was still strong in me so I told them I wanted to try. Both of my parents worked very hard to help my sister and I both achieve our own dreams in any way they could, even when things were tough and it didn't seem like we were getting anywhere, we still stood strong as a family at the end of the day. We got more and more into racing as my sister started to get out of high school and my parents had more time, I started to do better but I still played sports through middle school so my time was very split, until I got out of middle school I decided to continue racing and give 100% of my heart and soul. The more involved my family and I got in racing the less time I had to do "normal" kid things, my life was dirtbikes, but I was happy with it, I had goals, and a dream I was chasing but most kids my age never saw things the way I did. I loved that I was racing and riding so much, I met so many great friends along the way that I wouldn't change it for the world. To sum up the early part of my career I would say my family supporting me was the only way I was able to come close to doing anything, I found a true passion that would drive me to be better and to keep on the straight and narrow through life, and I met so many amazing people along the way that brought me up when I was down or needed help and were there with the success. I had much more success in the later part of my carrer that helped me get into different types of riding and racing but eventually I had to make a choice to either keep going or to go to trade school to get a degree and put dirtbikes on the back burner. Dirt bikes were all I did and I loved it with my whole heart and soul, I still love it but since I've been away for so long it's been tough to stay away but I chose to go to school and get my assosiates in applied science for diesel tech and applied service managment. Now that I have completed that part of my life I am ready to be back even though I know it will be tough to get back into shape but I'm ready for the long journey to begin.
Riding Goals
This year my biggest goal for riding and racing is just to go out and do the best I can, since I've been away for so long I have no clue where I line up as far as class' go and I for sure have no idea where my fitness level is going to be come time to race. I plan on training a lot this year by riding as much as I can, getting back into the gym, and getting my diet back on track again. I know what work needs done and I am ready to take it on head first, I am already making steps in the correct direction to get me back to where I need to be come the first race. I ride and race because I love it, not for the glory or to say I do it, but because deep down inside I chose this way of life and I wouldn't change that for the world.