On The Pegs January 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Page 72

On The Pegs
How do you juggle riding three different series?
To be honest, it’s tough. It’s awful. I bought a boat
this year kind of expecting to go out and have fun
on it, and the only time that I ever really got to take it
out was when Russell Bobbitt and Evan Smith would
come up or I’d have buddies come down that shared
the same passion that I do, because all of my friends
back home work a 9-5 and they don’t have weekdays
off. I don’t have weekends off. So I never even got to
play on the boat. It’s definitely tough. There’s a lot
of times where by mid-season I’m burned out. Ev-
erybody talks about how you’ve got the dream job.
Man, I bust my ass. I’m putting in 70 hours, 80 hours
a week. Doing the three series, usually I’m driving on
Mondays. I’ve got Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
to train. I’m usually leaving by midday on Thursday,
depending on the race. I want to be there 48 hours
in advance. After a long car drive, it does wipe your
body out. Every little thing kind of plays into it. It’s
tough to really manage my time. I just kind of stick
with the same routine. I come home on Mondays
and I try to get the majority of my stuff clean. That
way everything is ready to roll on Thursday when
I’m ready to leave. Then I try to spend my Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday morning doing what I
need to do on the bike. It’s tough, but once you kind
of ge