It was my last moto. I was on the gate next to Logan Caesar. I was so excited I almost lost my balance. I heard the man say "Set yourself, riders". I stood up on my beautiful new 2011 Flight Expert XL bike. The automatic voice said, "OK RIDERS, RANDOM START. RIDERS READY. WATCH THE GATE..." Then the gate dropped and all the riders launched out of the gate.
Everyone got away quickly, but Bailey was the fastest. Austin and I both past Logan at the same time and went straight into each other. Our handle bars touched, we went over the jump and SPLAT! We hit the ground as hard as a V8 driving into a brick wall. I looked up and it was Austin that came off with me. My arm really hurt but I wasn't going to let that stop me. I pushed my bike up the double, sat on it and pumped for a while. I looked behind me on the second-to0last straight and Austin was riding much faster than me. I stood up, pedalled a couple of times then pumped the step-up/ step-down, pedalled more, then cruised the rest of the way. I beat him by about about four bike lengths, crossed the line and went straight to the medical tent.
In the big, green medical tent, the St John's paramedics examined my arm. After that, they asked me how I crashed. The paramedics gave me entonox and strapped my arm up and then Dad went and got my bike to see if I could ride. I could ride but it hurt like face-planting on concrete.
They said I could ride but if I fell off I had to go straight to the hospital.
My family and I went back to the big, blue Mountain Raiders tent. I sat down and rested until my quarter finals. I was late to the pit and I almost missed my race.
I was on the brand new South African World gate for the third time that day. I raced around the track but this time it hurt like face-planting on concrete from a twenty storey building. Luckily, I cut someone off on the last corner and came seventh out of eight, with a possible broken arm. Even with a suspected broken arm, I managed to get NZ26 placing for 11 year old boys.
Written by C J, who is awesome.
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2 comments:
Oh my goodness Cameron! I'm so proud of your writing!!! What a fabulous descriptive story. I felt like I was the one riding the bike. I still can't believe you rode with a suspected broken arm, how brave is that. Great determination buddy.
Miss Smith Room 20
Some story you good there mate from B.S
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