Wilkes-Barre arenacross, the amateur aftermath

Ridinbeast - sounds good, you should go if it's not to much trouble! Tbanks - thanks for the advice I will definitely use it!

Thanks to everyone that has responded, the advice is well needed, hvaughn88, thanks sir, I will try to take as many pictures as I can! To the guys going, it's my understanding that we will be pitting inside big tents with heat ( i hope so it's a whopping 9 degrees in erie now lol)so maybe it will be easier to find everyone. I'm going to try and get there Saturday before 2, just depends on the weather, I'm going to give myself plenty of time to get there, ktm212 that sounds like a great idea, I'll be looking for you and mungusman for sure!!

Grieby54, great advice also, I'm not sure how I'll do, my plan is to finish and have fun while doing so!!

Thanks, I was told we will be pitting in heated tents outside, I'm taking propane and a heater just in case seeing as its been a high of 8 to 10 degrees lol yes I'm trying to come in there prepared and ready to go, I have a slight touch of ocd so I should be organized, the peaky jumps are something I'm not used to but I will try to adapt an overcome!!

I'm going to fill my tank and hope for the best, I'm going to run 3 classes, I'm still trying to get someone to go with me to help out, looks like you and your son had a good time, that's is the plan, good times and finishing, iv rode once last week since the vet Nationals in October so I am out of shape.

Hello fellow vital mx'ers, here is my review on my first arenacross event at Wilkes-Barre. To start off I would like to thank the Arenacross personal, they were helpful, friendly, patient and ran a tight ship, they answered any questions I had very politely and were again very helpful. The amateur event was packed, there were tons of entries and being that way made the pits very chaotic with most of us being in the heated tents they provided, thank goodness cause it was cold! Thankfully I got my brother to come with me, I wouldn't recommend doing this alone, he's never been to any motocross race's of any kind so he got enlightened an AX and amateur AX. My first thought pulling in Sunday morning was chaos seeing the packed pit area, you couldn't drive down to the pit so we backed the truck up as far as we could while getting yelled at by security to unload as fast as we could and had to pull a 1/4 mile away to park. Some advice to anyone going to one of these, take what u need and that's it!! I missed my 1st 2 practice sessions, made my 3rd though. Once the program starts they hustle though it like iv never seen before, fast, efficient and flowing!! I had back to back classes, that sucked!! Once again though I alerted the track referee to this dilemma and they made sure I could pull off the track and go directly back into staging and get lined up without starting without me. All in all I wasn't last and I wasn't 1st in any race's, from the front row I pulled some great starts, the whoops were my weakness, iv never rode on them that big before, they were small to some people, to me they were big, I figured it out by my mains though and was able to pickup alot more speed through them. Starting from the back row was a total bitch!! I didn't even set my holeshot device because I wasn't interested in eating shit to the face or the first turn pileup lol there was tons of pileups and body's and bikes flying everywhere, all of which I avoided thank goodness!! Let me say arenacross is a war out there, it's take no prisoners and guys blow in your line when you are over half way up the jump faces. My main problem was fitness and riding once since October really really hurt me. I would like to say thanks to the people on here that gave me advice, every bit of it was useful information, I look forward to trying arenacross again but it will have to wait till next year when the tour comes somewhat close to good old erie pa, I don't have any pictures to post, as much as I wanted to document this trip it kinda just fell by the wayside as it was a very busy day, o and Matt Wozney, I saw you hard at work Saturday night, I wanted to say hi but u looked quite busy yourself and I didn't want to bother anyone while working!! Thanks again everyone and I hope you enjoy reading this, if arenacross is in your neck of the woods I encourage you to give it a try!! sorry I wrote a book lol.
Tom

Thanks for the input!!

Zdog, they take the catapult and make it a table top kinda, u could still come up short and wreck and I was close to doing just that until I figured out the seat bounce, then I was getting over it cleanly. The pits were indeed crazy, there was a parent fight at one point, I was laughing my ass off watching grown men about to go to fisticuffs over their 8 year olds running into each other, I mean come on dudes they are 8 for crying out loud!! Glad you guys liked that read, I am going to try qualifying for Loretta's northeast region next for the first time, I will document that trip a little better and maybe go pro some racing, I would have a go pro video of arenacross but someone forgot the helmet mount, that would have been me, my brother is right, I need to make a list of everything I take and that will make things easier. Thanks again everyone, I appreciate all the comments and advice!!!

250c which I didn't qualify, +30 and +35