Stephanie Delaney likes to play rough.
When she gets hurt, the 18-year-old from Harrisonburg doesn’t let it keep her down.
Like the time she tore a ligament in her knee. Or when she broke her left arm - and then broke the other one not long after the left one healed.
“I got this cast off, and I got this one put on,” she said. “Nothing is going to stop me from riding.”
But, as fellow racer Katie Sundstrom says, pain is no reason to be upset about an injury.
“You’re not crying because you’re injured. You’re crying because you can’t ride your bike,” Sundstrom, 25, said.
Only eight of the 265 riders Monday night were signed up in the women’s class race at the Rockingham County Fair’s Pepsi Grandstand, event organizer Stacey Redifer said.
The sport isn’t just about adrenaline or going fast.
It’s a real stress reliever - a way to leave the rest of the world behind, Delaney and Sundstrom said.
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