On The Pegs February 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 2

On The Pegs P 68 OVERALL RESULTS 1. Cody Webb (KTM) 57 points; 2. Taddy Blazusiak (KTM) 53 pts; 3. Colton Haaker (Husqvarna) 52 pts; 4. Cristobal Guerrero (Yamaha) 35 pts; 5. Pol Tarres (Husqvarna) 33 pts Prestige Race 1 1. Cody Webb (KTM) 10 laps, 6:46.552; 2. Taddy Blazusiak (KTM) 6:50.994; 3. Colton Haaker (Husqvarna) 7:23.168; 4. Kevin Gallas (Husqvarna) 9 laps, 7:05.780; 5. Cris- tobal Guerrero (Yamaha) 9 laps, 7:10.590… Prestige Race 2 1. Cody Webb (KTM) 10 laps, 6:50.910; 2. Colton Haaker (Husqvarna) 7:10.051; 3. Taddy Blazusiak (KTM) 7:13.609; 4. Cristobal Guerrero (Yamaha), 9 laps, 6:51.752; 5. Pol Tarres (Husqvarna) 9 laps, 7:13.480… Prestige Race 3 1. Taddy Blazusiak (KTM) 12 laps, 7:35.335; 2. Colton Haaker (Husqvarna) 7:58.051; 3. Cody Webb (KTM) 8:04.231; 4. Pol Tarres (Husqvarna) 11 laps, 8:22.017; 5. Cris- tobal Guerrero (Yamaha) 10 laps, 7:39.342… Championship Standings (After round 2) 1. Cody Webb (KTM) 109 points; 2. Taddy Blazusiak (KTM) 107 pts; 3. Colton Haaker (Husqvarna) 101 pts; 4. Kevin Gallas (Husqvarna) 58 pts; 5. Pol Tarres (Husqvarna) 56 pts; 6. Alfredo Gomez (Husqvarna) 46 pts… On The Pegs Vol. 4 Issue 2 - February 2019 P 69 WHAT ELSE CODY SAYS... How do you train for extreme races? It kind of depends. There’s days where I just go out and push and see how gnarly of something I can go up. But I’ve been trying to make and pull long loops togeth- er, so that way I can charge in-between things and reenact a race-like scenario. You can go out and ride the gnarliest thing in the world, but you might be practicing harder than what you’re going to have in a race. If you don’t have that intensity, you’re just kind of walking your bike through stuff. So I usually have a long creek. I’ll ride up the creek and do the loop and come back up it again. When I go up the creek I try and ride correctly and use the right technique instead of just floundering the whole time. Is EnduroCross getting more and more like Supercross with faster tracks? Yeah. I don’t know what happened. I feel like all the spectators say it’s so awe- some when it’s gnarly and people are down in the rocks. It’s unpredictable. And then they kept messing it up by just making more jumps, which is not what every- one wants. Do you ever throw a leg over a trials bike? I was going to over Christmas and I threw my back out right before Christmas, like the same day I was going to go riding on my trials bike. Honestly, I haven’t. I keep saying I’m going to, but then I don’t go with anyone. I want to get it on it lately, I just don’t want to go ride by myself. If you could suggest any changes to endurocross, how would you change the tracks? I feel like we’ve seen a couple more riders this year, the last two years, get hurt more than years past. Supercross you see them get hurt enough. We have sketchy rips off things that we shouldn’t be jumping. You look at world enduro in Europe - they don’t really have any jumps. To me, I’m a proponent of more technical style things. I’d like it just to be a little bit safer. I’ve changed my riding a lot to be able to jump this stuff. I never would have been doing any of it five years ago. It’s just kind of a matter of time. If you hit the wrong log a little weird, things are going to go bad for you real quick. n

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