hahahahahahahaha!

please excuse me for being thick but i dont quite get it ??????????????????????????????

Glad to see that there is some love left here in this hard, tough, dangerous world! Some of us poor folks do have to work, ya know!

I'm also nursing Debbie, she just had her neck fused by one of the top doctors around. He has footballers playing with the titanium rebuild she just had installed in her neck. Hey, she's got more exotic metal in her now than Dougie's 4t.

We hope after the rebuild has had time to heal, she has one more women's world championship and TDN left in her. We are 3 weeks into her several month recovery.

Wish we were there!

Good to hear from you

I hope the recovery goes well!!

Wow that is inspirational!

Hope Debbie recovers well, send her our best wishes please.

You sure have a lot of input here, for not being "there" Lane.

There is some part of, you have to be there participating that would lend more credibility to your comments with some of us.

Hope to see you at the YN next month.

So are You saying Debbie will go ahead and do the National series next year to get selected for the WR / TDN or will she just skip that part of the deal? Louise Forsley was looking great out there this past weekend. I believe that her and the Williams ladies are making all the events this year.

Looking forward to seeing you guys.

Edited May 22, 200620 yr by Alan Bechard

Alan, Debbie has not been able to ride for over a year! She rode the Sept 2004 TDN hurt and in a lot of pain. Now she's all tuned up but needs time to heal.

No she will not be able to ride then! She dosn't want to come because she couldn't stand being on foot all week. Considering her condition, we may pass for this years youth nationals!

As for imput, hey people comment on football and baseball games without having been there all the time. Why is trials any differnt, I've been to a bunch of World Championship trials since 1998. Seen the Yanks ride and have been comparing them for a long time.

I'm simply pleased that you guys have finally had a chance to do it. It's kind of sobering isn't it?

I'm optimisitc however, I was around when we took on the world in the 70's. I saw how we worked our way up and beat them at their own game back then. So it's easy for me to believe we could do it again if we put our minds to it.

Seeing Curt and Debbie go so well against todays riders, also gives me confidence that US riders of the 70s were really good! My view is let's get it together and go after the rest of the world again.