On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 91

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
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put all those things together into one
We sat down and I was like, am I going
basket it seemed like it really helped for to make a career out of this or do I need
sure.
to go get a job? We really changed a
lot of things and ’16 went pretty well.
How do you practice for a national It went good enough where I landed
enduro?
a factory ride. I just sat back and was
Luckily we have a family farm so I
like, all right, another year. What do
have unlimited woods and fields. We
we need to do? I’ve changed a lot. I’ve
went back and we cut a pretty good
changed how I eat, how I drink. I feel
trail. I like to keep it to like a five to
like I’m just now learning how to really
eight minute loop. That way I don’t re- put it all together. It stinks at the same
ally get bored when I go out and ride,
time because I wish I would have done
and that way I can learn the bike and
this four or five years ago and I feel like
learn what it’s doing. If I need to make
I could have had maybe a couple cham-
changes, I can make changes. But for
pionships and a lot more wins, but it’s
me it was just making a super tight,
kind of like it was good for me to learn
just slower kind of no flow at all. That’s the hard way of everything don’t come
something I feel like I really struggled
easy. I’ve had some really lows and I’ve
at, when the tracks don’t have a good
had some really highs. I wouldn’t say
flow. So I tried to put it all in perspec-
it’s not a bad thing, but it was a good
tive and go from there.
thing for me just to learn how to do
it right and what I needed to do. I got
When you were with Randy you
married and I feel like that kind of mel-
were kind of a wild child, but now
lowed me out. Just all the things com-
I think you’re one of the most solid
bined into one really helped for sure.
riders and consistent riders on the
circuit. How did that change come
Is there a certain type of terrain
about?
that you feel like you feel more com-
I don’t know. I woke up one day and
fortable on?
it was kind of like one of those things
Honestly, I feel like maybe what helps
where if I’m going to make a career out me is I’m more of a versatile rider in
of this, then I need to learn how to be
everything. I ride really well in the mud.
a better rider and be more consistent.
I hate the mud, but for some reason
When it comes down to it, it’s not all
I just ride really well in it. It’s just like
about money, but in any job you have
the rocks. I feel like I ride really well.
to make money. So I was at that point
I feel like I’m a pretty well-rounded
in my life. I think it was the end of 2015. rider, and then I go to Six Days and I