Stuck in 40

After 4 days of sailing and lay day(due to a storm front) we have been stuck around 40th place, just a little better than mid fleet. Today we had two races in a nice North West breeze with cooler temps and short bay chop. We had a nice first beat in race one, rounding 15th at the top mark only to find we were BFD. Race two was a 5 leg windward leeward race course we sailed well and we rounded the last leeward mark in 30th but things got a little tricky on the last beat and we slipped a few places. Its been tough to get back into the boat after not sailing for 3 months. I'm not shifting gears as well and today was the first day that I felt like I was actually hiking well. We have one more race on Saturday, last shot to break out of the mid fleet rut.