Jeep and Beijing Supercross Day #1

I have 7 words for you..." I sucked at the Jeep Race!" Yup, I was the second fastest qualifier and then something happened to my vision. Oh wait I know what it was! I couldn't see cuz' my head was soo far up my ass!! Seriously I just rode like a moron. I got 4th and was as dissapointed in myself as I could be so we'll just leave it at that.
Anyway, so Saturday afer Jeep I caught my 5:30 pm Private Flight home to L.A. Yes, I said private. Seriously I was the only one on the plane!! Man those Jeep people sure know how to make you feel like a rockstar! ;) So I made it home (thanks Missy for the ride home) and I had about 3 hours until I was going to be picked up to head back to L.A. I made it and was soon on my Air China flight. I took my special sleeping pill and slept for about 9 of the 12 hours and was stoked. When I woke up they were serving breakfast and I was totally craving eggs, but instead they served either chicken or fish. FISH??!! For breakfast...no thanks! The good thing was that we landed a bit early because I was under a bit of a time crunch. I landed at 5:00 am and had to get to the hotel, put my bike together, hopefully eat something, and get to the track to walk it real quick and get ready to practice at 10:00 am. I was told that the Good Bejing People (volunteers of the Olympics) would be there to take me to the airport. So I spotted them in the Orange Nike Polos and told them where I was staying. They BARELY spoke english! There were 8 of them and they all stood there arguing about who knew where it was. Well, actually that's my version. I have no idea what they were saying. After about 20min. I finally explained that I NEEDED to get going and that I would just take a taxi. So two of them walked me over to a taxi and said it would be about a 40 min. drive. I loaded my things in and got in the taxi. Then two seconds later the Good Beijing people get in with me. Wow, what service huh! I got to the hotel, checked in, put my bike together, took a shower, jammed over to get some breakfast, and then left for the venue. I got there and the track looked good. The start ramp was massive!! I took pictures of it from all angles, but I don't think any of them do it justice. Not unless you actually pedal down it. I got ready for practice and I had an hour to dial in the track. For about the first 10-15 minutes they wouldn't let us start from the ramp. Not sure why, but I really wanted to get up there and get it dialed. Once I got up there I hit the first two big doubles on about my 2nd or 3rd lap.
I mean I needed to just basically hit everything and feel as comfortable as I could asap! I was starting to feel better each lap except the fact that I was totally spun out after the first jump. So right after practice I went up a gear and then it was time for the first time trial.
My first one felt so-so. The gear felt waaay better, but I went waay too wide on the first turn and when I came back in I bonked the top of the step up and had to roll the next two doubles. LAME!!
I went up for my second time trial and needed to make up about 2 seconds and I knew that if I took the first turn better and hit the second straight like I did in practice I'd be fine. But instead I just did ride up to my ability. I manualed the step up into the second straight, but then lost speed on the backside and had to roll the other two. I was soo dissapointed.
I'm still glad I came, but to not make the cut was hard. I have to say that the 16 girls that did make it were riding pretty damn fast. Back when I raced BMX full time girls just weren't this fast.