In my case I wasn't as afraid of lowsiding as I was of running off the track, so I tried to stick with the lean. Unfortunately I ran outta pavement. Even then I made the decision to try to ride it out as long as I could and attempt to point the bike sort of where I wanted it--you always hear that but I personally haven't ever found myself in that kind of situation before. Whenever I've messed up on the bike prior to this I was usually on the ground before I knew it. Making a conscious choice to stay with the bike as long as possible and control what I could made the whole thing seem a lot less scary. That little episode actually gave me a lot more confidence, strange as it sounds. I thought for sure that I was going to eat dirt and I really, really didn't want to ruin my day in only the second session.
That's seriously what was going through my mind. Had I ran off later in the day I don't think that I would have tried as hard to save it.
I learned a really important lesson that even when things look very, very bad that you shouldn't give up! I'm glad I got to learn that one at the track...
