Trinidad and Tobago

Last month I went to Trinidad and Tobago to race the Easter Grand Prix. From the US Andy Lakatosh, Giddeon Massie, and Phillip Elbaz also raced, joining us to take care of us at the races was Peter Maharaj.
There was about 12 girls entered into the international women category including 2 girls from Scotland, 4 girls from Trinidad, 2 girls from Barbados, 1 girl from Columbia and 1 girl from Guyana. I was pretty nervous going into the first race just because I had never raced with any of the girls before. The track was a flat 480 meter freeway! The first race we did was the flying 200, which is by no means my kind of race. The took the top 4 to the finals, I didn't make it. After that I was even more nervous about the racing but I got my head in the game for the next race which was a scratch race. I ended up getting 2nd, which was way better than 5th. That night I got 2nd in another race and 3rd and I won a race. The second day I did much better. I won most of the races and got one second. The only downfall is I got one DNF because 2 girls crashed right above me, and just when I was safe they caught my back wheel and I went flying into the air. :( I got back up and did the final race (the one race I got 2nd in that night)

I was ok from the crash (so I thought). I had really bad bruising on my right hip and minor road rash. I rolled my tire and cracked my helmet. The final night that I was packing up my bike I found out that I cracked my bike on the chain stay. Another bummer. On my way back to Houston it was hurting to breathe, cough, laugh, sneeze, all the signs of a broken rib, so I went to the doctors to get an X-ray just to be on the safe side. No broken rib, but major bruising and a possible minor cracked rib, but nothing to stress over.
Anyways, back to the racing. The third and final day we headed to another track that was in the south part of the island. It was another 480 meter track but this time there was no banking at all! It was flat almost like a running track. I was in a lot of pain after the crash the night before but I did  the best I could. I won one race that night, getting a 2nd and a 3rd in the other races. The third time I did not make the podium from the whole trip was in the standing 500 meter. (the first was the 200, 2nd was the crash)
Over all it was a great experience and I would go back to race any day!

PICTURES: 

waiting for the podium