Originally Posted by recursive
If you're not comfortable taking the corners, you're probably much more likely to crash. Take some corners with as much speed as your comfortable with, and then gradually build it up.
Depending how the race goes, some of those corners may come at you at more than 20mph also.
What were the circumstances of your original fall that contributed to the crash?
....it was only my second season on a bike. Turning right on a country road just a couple of blocks from the end of my ride....about 17 mph (I remembered because I had just looked down at the computer) when I heard that noise....tires in some road sand.
The next thing I knew I was doing an endo, face-plant onto the rough cement road.
Helmet cracked.
Road rash everywhere.
Busted up lip.
Front tooth knocked out.
Broken wrist (which I found out about and had casted up TWO DAYS later!
I still cringe when I hear the sound of tires on sand/gravel.