On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 68

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dollars, which is what it costs me, and not even finish the first day. I’ve heard of
this guy from Guatemala, he tried five times back maybe 25 years ago and he
never finished. So I said, man, that’s probably one of the reasons, right? The other
reason, as I said, is the level [of difficulty of the course]. Few riders from Latin
America, or even from the States, go there. In 2017 the States only had like four
guys there. Then last year you had two. This year you had two guys. So it’s kind of
like, ‘What’s going on?’ And very, very important is the weather. In Costa Rica and
Latin America, since we’re so close to the equator, we’re used to having the best
weather possible. Over there [in Scotland] the riders have temperatures that are
two degrees, zero degrees, and three degrees. We never, ever in Costa Rica would
reach that low. The lowest it gets - it will be 18 degrees [about 65 degrees Fahren-
heit]. So, of course that is a big issue.
Then the plan is to model your event after the Scottish Six Day event?
It is done like that, yes, but in a three-day event. Instead of having thirty sec-
tions, we have twenty sections. We have the same [scorecard system]. Then we