On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 119

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
P 119
CORY GRAFFUNDER
“A lot of ups and downs. That’s how extreme
enduro goes. Had some holeshots. Had some
bad starts. Had some clean hills. Had some
not-so-clean hills. But all in all, it was good.
Had a great battle with Jordan Ashburn in
the last lap of the first race. We were going at
it. I got blisters. It was really fun. The format
was cool. I thought it was a really fun day. We
get to race and we get to hang out with our
friends a little bit in-between, and then we
get to race again and then hang out. Do some
bench racing and then race again. Really fun
course. All in all I think just a great event.
“We walked Jarvis Falls ahead of time and I
was pretty sure that I could get up the double
step in one shot, which I did on the first lap.
But then after that, with the lappers in it, they
were just clogging the hill and then clog-
ging the approach to it, so now your run up
is cut short. So it just got more difficult and
more difficult. I think I only cleaned it maybe
on half the laps I made it up it. The rest of it I
would get three-quarters of the way up and
then have to get off and push a little bit and
make it up. I don’t know about features like
that. They’re really cool, but when they get
one-lined then it creates that bottleneck. I feel
bad, because I’ve got to be mean to all my
competitors. I know that they know I’m lap-
ping them, and that there’s someone breath-
ing down my neck and I can’t wait. For the
most part they would lean to the side. Give
them a little rev and they’d look back and say,
go ahead. There was another ledge just be-
fore that Jarvis Falls and there could be a row
of three bikes waiting to hit it, and you can’t
get by them. It’s one line wide, and you just
got to wait.”