On The Pegs March 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 3 | Page 72

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Arizona I plan on getting my track all built up and ready. So, at this point I’m just
kind of doing some extreme enduro racing. This opportunity just kind of came
up, so I figured I would take it. I’m not doing hare scrambles this year. I’m just do-
ing ex-treme enduro and EnduroCross.
You won the AMA Hare Scramble championship last year, so why did you
decide not to do those?
Well, that’s my second hare scramble title. I felt like it was taking away from me
doing better at extreme enduros and EnduroCross and those are my real goals.
So, I wanted to race less, because I raced so much last year. I wanted to race less
and focus better on specific races and actually be able to break down my sched-
ule in a very structured way so that I didn’t have to be running all over the place
just playing catch-up the whole time.
Are you contracted with Beta USA to ride the extremes and ride the Endu-
roCross? Or do they just let you ride what you want?
I’m contracted with Beta. I’m contracted to race east and west extreme enduros,
and also the EnduroCross series. Races like this one in Peru, I have to get ap-
proved to race them. I can’t just go to them. They have to allow me to go.
Did you ship a bike down there or did the local Beta importer help you
out?
The Beta importer helped me out. That’s the only reason I could go, is because
he of-fered to pay my way and get me a bike and everything else. Even if it cost
me just a ti-ny bit, this was quite the experience.
How do you train? Endurocross is a sprint, and extreme enduro, some of
them are six hours. So how do you train for the different disciplines?
I have a trainer so I talk to him a lot. Basically, what we do, at this time of the
year since a lot of it is all extreme enduros, we’ll do a ton of endurance training
right now. The good thing about endurance training is endurance basically serves
as a foundation for being able to stack intensity on top of it. If you don’t have a
strong endurance base, then when you stack intensity on top of it, you can’t sus-
tain it. So, it actually works out conveniently so I can kind of get it all in. But once
I get closer to the EnduroCross year, or actually as soon as I get back, he’s got me
planned to start doing some intensity training. Start bringing up that intensity so
I can get my heart rate used to it.