On The Pegs December 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 12 | Page 32

RACHEL’S REALITY On The Pegs P 32 A tri-monthly column by EnduroCross racer Rachel Gutish W inter is coming....and for once in my life, I’m not dreading it. Usually for those of us in the northern parts of the country, winter is a word that can be defined as the depressing time of the year when we don’t get to ride our motorcycles. Unlike the rest of the suckers back home though, now that I’m no longer in school, I can go live in the southern US for a couple months like all the other pro riders who were cooler than me always got to do. I’m pretty pumped for this, not only because sunshine and dirt bikes sounds a lot better than cold weather and shoveling snow, but also because for once in my life, I’ll be able to go into the season with two months of riding under my belt. The past few years, it always felt like I was competing at a disadvantage. I knew most of my competi- tion was riding or training somewhere; meanwhile, I was holed up in the library with my textbooks, shaking my head as I looked out on the gently drifting snow.