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22.002 Damn!

Journal Entry: Sat Mar 5, 2011, 2:54 PM
For fun, a group of us meet every Friday at noon to race Sodi Karts at a local indoor track.  We have a lot of fun.  I have been slowly but surely getting quicker lap times. My goal is getting into the 21 second lap times.  On Friday I posted my fastest lap yet at 22.002 seconds.  Do you realize how close I came!!!!  2/1000th of a second.  Holy crap is that just annoying or what!!!  Just to give you some perspective a blink of an eye takes 400 milliseconds.  I missed it by 2 milliseconds. It takes a housefly longer than that to flap its wing!  That is just wrong on so many levels.  I think I will go sit in the corner and contemplate life for a while.


Tommy

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:iconimmy-is-thinking:
Bummer! But, if its any consolation, 2 ms seems quite a long time if you've ever worked on fast sodium currents in neuronal cells. Your brain is always going faster than a kart!
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=tabsquared Mar 11, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Sometimes that doesn't seem true :D I will work on speeding it up!

Tommy
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:iconune-vache:
Just add any stuff of about 30 mm before the cart and you'll get your 2/1000 th seconds Tommy haha ! :lol:
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:icontabsquared:
=tabsquared Mar 7, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
That would do it!!! :D

Tommy
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:icontherob70:
Ah man that's a kick in the balls. I think that's an Irish phrase meaning quite frustrating. :D The problem now is getting that close week in week out and not cracking it. Then getting really poor times for a week or two after that. Soon you turn into a crazy version of the hulk, lift the kart over your head and run screaming towards the nearest ditch a throwing it in. On the other hand you might do it next week and in a wild frenzy of excitement and relief start doing backflips, screaming towards the nearest ditch......Hope you fling yourself into the ditch before you do the kart mate. :D
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=tabsquared Mar 7, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It was a kick in the balls! I think I will get it soon. We are usually the first group out in the morning, so both the Karts and the track is cold. With a bit of heat in both I think I can turn in the time easily.

Or I'll just throw the damn thing in the ditch!

Tommy
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:icontherob70:
I'm sure once the track was warmed up and the karts tires it would make a huge difference. Try and avoid that ditch mate. :D
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