lizard you are a wise man, that is the best piece of advise you can give a racer. Just go out and have fun try your best to win but have fun. Dont push yourself or the bike too hard you at just going to go slower, run at a good pace throughout the race and be as smooth and as cosistant as possible. Cissistancy is key, sure you can run a lap in the 24s but how many of them? I would much rather run 10 laps at 25.1 than one at 24.8 then some 25.3's, and maybe a 25.0, and if you mess up and have a sucky lap a 25.7. The cosistancy will also give you a better benchmark for all of your adjustments. If you change your suspension and you go out for practice and run 3 laps cosistantly at 24.8 or 24.9 then you know you have gotten somewhere. If you are runing 25.2, 25.1 and then somehow you pull a 24.7 how the hell are you supposed to know if it wasn't you getting better and not the bike? I dont know kinda went on rambling but that was the best piece of advice I got when I first started racing.