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Zest

Gusto

Animal Vigor

Intellectual Vitality

Fun

Love

Life is busy and exciting. My energy level tends to be very high and I try to put that into everything I do. The above is a philosophy that was shared over 10 years ago by a great teacher. It is pretty amazing to reflect on that time and realize I may not have totally understood what it was he was trying to get across, but in the end it stuck with me and is the driving force behind everything I do, without even knowing it. Now that is education at its finest.

Check out eck-racing.com for all round 5 photos!!

Couple of my favorites!

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=36513

Loudon, NH – Wet weather forecasts dampened turnout but not the racing at the second round of the 2009 Loudon Road Race Series (LRRS) series at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The skies stayed dry, the track cool, and lap times were fast all weekend long.

Bret Guyer led the list of multiple Expert winners riding his Seacoast Sport Cycle Ducati Classic to four wins in the Lightweight divisions. Todd Babcock pressured Guyer each race aboard his Dunlop-shod Suzuki SV650 with Nathaniel Mendell rounding out the podium twice aboard his Ducati 1000 SS. Other multiple race winners included Jeff Wood, Eric Wood, Scott Greenwood, Shane Narbonne, Michael Donovan and an emerging star, Christian Cronin.

New Challengers

Two of the best races of the weekend featured fierce battles between veteran stars and young guns looking to take their share. Unlimited Grand Prix saw young Shane Narbonne grab the holeshot from Eric Wood. Riding his Dunlop equipped GSX-R1000, Narbonne laid in a blistering 1:13.9 on his standing start lap. Wood answered with a 14.2 aboard his Woodcraft/Dunlop Ducati 848. Together they checked out running an incredible string of 11s right to the checkered flag. Wood clawed back fractions early but Narbonne stood up to the pressure and held on for the win. After being asked how he could run an 11 flat and come in second, Wood responded: “When the other guy does an 11 flat, too… Shane is riding better right now then I’ve ever seen him. I had a little on him going in, and he had a little on me coming out. I tried to pressure him into a mistake, but he was perfect. It was fun and now we’ll both come back next weekend to do 10s…”

Later in the afternoon, second-year Expert Christian Cronin grabbed the holeshot from Scotty Greenwood in Unlimited Superbike. Riding his Argo Cycles Kawasaki/Dunlop ZX-6R, Greenwood powered into the lead on the first lap and put his head down for an attempted breakaway. But Cronin had seen enough of Greenwood’s tailsection all weekend and stepped up his pace. Shockingly, on lap four Cronin backed it into Turn One and took Greenwood on the outside like a half miler. It was a bold move but Cronin’s lead lasted only a few yards before Greenwood slammed the door on him in turn 1A. Cronin finally retook the lead on lap six and held off Greenwood to the flag for the second Expert win of his young career–Cronin recorded a personal best lap time with a 1:12.6 riding on Dunlop’s new AMA spec GPA race tires.

Earlier on the ‘Dash’ podium, Greenwood commented about his Kawasaki: “I’m chattering my brains out running mid 12s. We’re missing the set-up a little on the ZX-6 but we’ll get there”.

The Dash for Cash

The feature race of the weekend was the $1500 Dash for cash, sponsored by GMD Computrack, Dunbar Euro-Sports, New England Performance, Woodcraft, Street & Comp, Rob’s Dyno and Seacoast Sport Cycle. The grid included 31 of the club’s fastest middleweight racers with Narbonne grabbing the holeshot. Jeff Wood soon took over the point aboard his Higgins Powersports/Roadracing World ZX-6R and steadily built a lead towing Narbonne’s GSX-R600 with him a few ticks back. Greenwood trailed in third with Bruce Transportation’s Cory Hildebrand working hard to keep pace aboard his Yamaha YZF-R6 in fourth; 11 laps later they finished in the same order. On the podium Jeff Wood remarked, “Like Scotty, we are struggling with the ZX-6. Peter Kates is working hard to find a solution and Sweeny Engines has given me great power. We’re trying to get ready for the Nationals.”

Tire War?

The AMA Pro series spec tire rule is turning club racing paddocks into a front-line battleground among race tire brands. Motorace’s Sto Smead showed up with an attractively priced new Michelin premium race tire alongside last year’s product at even lower prices. Pirelli appointed Bostonmoto as the new LRRS trackside vendor and they, too, showed up with two grades of race tires at attractive prices. Bridgestone sent an 18-wheeler to support Street & Comp, while Dunlop’s Race Tire Service responded by offering the GPA spec tire at lower price points alongside their premium priced GP211 series. While Dunlop is dominant in the LRRS paddock, Michelin appears to be in position to make significant gains this season through the introduction of new tires and the recruitment of new riders to race them. Club racers have rarely had so many good tire options and trackside technical support.

The next LRRS race weekend is May 30/31. It will be the traditional warm-up before the 86th running of the Loudon Classic on June 12-14. For more information, log onto www.lrrsracing.com.

I added a new section to the website called Gallery. The link can be found at the top right of the page. Here is where photos will be placed of things going on (mostly racing of course).

I’ll update the home page when new albums are placed in the gallery as well.

Boutique distilleries revive a tradition outlawed by Prohibition – The Boston Globe

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I found this theme which I really like, so I figured I would update the site with it.

In addition I have added my twitter feed on the right side of the site and my Yelp reviews remain below that.

As race season has officially kicked off last weekend and there are lots of things going with that, work, and life in general. I really have this site for record keeping purposes, but I know that at the very least my mother is checking up on me since she told me I don’t call enough (sorry mom!).

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I’m going to jump into the world of twitter and see what all this is about.

Follow me @ www.twitter.com/eck576

Mostly will be used to post updates from the track

We are about 6 weeks away from the start of the 2009 Track Day season with Tony’s Track Days. This will be my 3rd season instructing with TTD, and my 6th year riding with them. This year is packed full with 15 events between NJ and NH. Hope to see you all there!

2009 Trackday Dates:
April 20-21 – NJ (Thunderbolt)
May 26-27 – NH
June 15-16 – NJ (Thunderbolt)
July 20-21 – NH
Aug 3-4 – NH
Sept 21, 22 – NJ (Thunderbolt)
Sept 29 – NH
Oct 5-6 – NJ (Thunderbolt)

If you missed President Obama addressing Congress and the American People tonight, do yourself a favor and take the time to watch. It is very refreshing to have a leader with clear vision and focused goals. It really brings to light what we have been dealing with for the last 8 years. Tonight was a great example of what we should expect from our elected leaders.

Becket Ambulance (my father is the director) responded to a bus rollover on the Mass Pike early this morning. News Channel 13 ended up going to my parents house to get his interview.

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S795554.shtml?cat=10114