 I knew better than to even ask. Eventually, I just ended up doing it anyway, and they weren't particularly happy about it, but this race was on a Saturday, and so I rode out there. I won the race in the junior beginner category, which probably might have been 10 people in it, even that, but I felt like king of the world. I won this race, and I loved it. I loved the feeling of just the race itself, and I felt like I was some kind of champion for winning, and so that kind of got me hooked.