On The Pegs April 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 4 | Page 82

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I wouldn’t say that it came easy until this year. I spent a lot of time racing the Full
Gas series last year. It was the first year I got to do the whole series. I think that re-
ally helped me learn how to race that style because it’s so different than GNCC, in
my opinion. You have to just maintain focus for ten minutes at a time, very intense
focus. Then you also have to be on transfer trails. You’ve got to be pretty well
100% focused because there’s a lot of things going on on transfer, whether it’s
the terrain changing, going up and down mountains, the arrows you got to fol-
low… You’re just focused all day long. I think that’s really taxing just on your whole
body. It’s just a little bit more endurance that you need for that race compared
to GNCC. Last year when we went to Chile, in 2018, I think we did well there, but
the terrain was very crazy. Our team had some mistakes that cost us a lot of time.
The Australians were doing really well. They ride really well in that terrain. Portu-
gal was similar in a way, but it had some toss-ups. I think the way we worked as a
team last year, we weren’t in competition with each other. We just gave each other
advice every day on what to change up and do better. So I think that carried over
for us this year as as team. We just worked really well together. We killed it on all
the sprints. I know Brandy practiced a lot. She set up a bit more training loops on
her properties. It kind of just fell into place. It takes consistency. It literally takes six
days of being consistent, which is very hard to get three people to do.
I think Women’s Team is on a roll in that, too. I just hope they don’t cancel
Italy, but that doesn’t look very good right now.
I know. I’m not sure what the heck they’re going to do. I know Antti has Brandy
on board. I know that she wants to keep going, and I know that Jordan Jarvis
wants a chance to go. Hopefully they get that opportunity and get to go to Italy
safely.
Tell me what BABs Racing means and how you came up with it.
Babs is just a nickname. It started out as a nickname and it stood for “Bad Ass
Becca Sheets.” This was a nickname my dad wrote down when we were at an
all-girls race back when I was racing minibikes. All the girls had the chance to
write their nickname down to be announced as they went to the line. They were
just making it a big deal for us. So of course my dad writes down “Bad ass Becca
Sheets,” because my dad is just kind of like that. So instead of announcing it, they
just announced it as “Babs.” I had a couple friends next to me on the line with their
dads too. We just all looked at each other. We were laughing, like, “What’s Babs?”
Then my dad told me about it later. Not very many people called me that or any-