August 2020 -- Vol 4 -- Issue 8 August 2020 | Page 187

On The Pegs VOL. 4 ISSUE 8 - August 2020 187
DEBRIEF:
CODY WEBB
It was definitely pretty tough. That first lap I was up there and I was thinking,
this could definitely be harder than I expected. But two-thirds of the way
through that second lap I was kind of like, I understand now. It started kind of
just dragging down on you. There’s endless rocks. That first lap, I was riding
with Colton there for the huge majority of it. We were having just a really hot
pace. I kind of just let him do the pace making there, hoping it would wear him
out. Maybe it did, maybe it didn’t. But I was making a lot of mistakes when I was
behind him. That second lap I just kind of rode my own race and felt way better
even though a little more fatigued. I was trying to conserve energy when he
was leading and we were going fast. That’s when I just started making dumb
mistakes. Almost went over the bars. I jumped off the bike a couple times. I only
had one little tip-over on the second lap. It was fun, but it definitely wears you
down.
I think the trickiest part about this track was a lot of off-cambers with loose
rocks. That first lap following Colton, he would knock a rock loose and I’d hit it
and I almost crashed. So the first lap was almost a little more treacherous. The
second lap some of those lines got burned in, so all the off-cambers were pretty
untouched for the most part, which makes it tricky. A couple tricky uphills, but
the hill climbs weren’t bad. There was one extreme bit where you’re just kind
of stuck in a narrow crack the whole way througha deep ravine. I didn’t like
that part because I was just dragging my swing arm through there, along with
everyone else. There was a left-hand pivot at the end. I didn’t like that one. The
rest of them were sweet. There was definitely some parts where I hit my header
out there today. So it was tough. A lot of little Carl’s Diner type stuff, almost tailings.
But they’ve ran the race a couple years now on those same tailings, so it’s
pretty burnt in and nice. The top guys can get a flow through there. I enjoyed
myself for sure. I was kind of afraid that first lap how hard we were pushing if I
was going to make it or not, but once I got a gap on Colton I just pushed really
hard for the whole rest of that lap and about half that second lap. Just put a
charge on to get ahead and cruised it into the finish. n