How competitive is are the records we set? Well, first of all, if getting trophies for the mantelpiece is important, we did the right thing -- we found open records and ran on them. Four runs = two records = two trophies. So yeah, we chose "easy" targets.
But then, we managed to go faster on the return run in each class, so we used what we learned from the first run and applied that on the second one. When you qualify on an open record and all you have to do is putt-putt-putt down the course (saving the motor) on the return -- putting a few additional percent on the first run shows we were trying to do better, not JUST get trophies.
There's more to our madness than just getting pretty hardware, though. We've got some long-term goals, and we need to work towards them. We did so, successfully, and we learned at least as much as we hoped we'd learn this time, and even made some progress in other aspects of the effort to achieve the goals (I speak guardedly here -- don't want to let too many cats out of the bag). We might have been able to pick up a bit/bunch more speed at SpeedWeek with lots more parts to swap out and lots more runs -- but we went home with a running bike in the trailer, not a broken one from trying one thing too many.
We had a fine time, we got to see just about all of our friends, we enjoyed the ambience of Woderful Wendover, and we set some records. Most people never get a chance to set a record. End.
