Meet the fearless women of the Lone Star Mower Racing Association...
Meet the fearless women of the Lone Star Mower Racing Association...
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The heat creeps toward triple digits at the Kendall County Fairgrounds, in Boerne, but that doesn’t stop Julie Tynmann from pulling on heavy, fire-resistant gloves and racing boots, a black neck brace, and a regulation long-sleeved jersey over her lucky purple racing shirt. She takes a swig of Red Bull before putting on the most important piece of gear, her “big old helmet.” State champions like Tynmann don’t let the sweat and the dust discourage them from suiting up and hitting the track. Getting dirty is the least of her worries. “I’m trying to get mad,” Tynmann tells me on this scorching September afternoon, when I ask how she prepares to race. “Like, ‘Get out the way, here I come.’ But I’m not trying to get so mad that I kill myself.”
It might sound like she’s psyching herself up to slide behind the wheel of an Indy 500 race car and punch it to 220 miles per hour, but Tynmann, a 45-year-old Boerne native, is instead one of a handful of women who full-throttle it to 35 or 40 mph around dirt tracks across the state as part of the Lone Star Mower Racing Association (LSMRA). If that doesn’t sound fast, ask drivers who’ve crashed, endured nasty bruises, or even suffered broken collarbones when their souped-up lawn mowers have flipped over hay-bale barricades.
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