On The Pegs January 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Page 66

On The Pegs
“It feels awesome to win another title,” Steward
Baylor told On The Pegs after the Gobbler Getter
Enduro. “After my injuries, after coming back from
something the doctors told me I would never be able
to come back from, to come back this year and come
out swinging the way that I did and come out win-
ning races in all three series and holding the points
lead for a brief time in the GNCC’s, the sprint enduros,
and now winning the national enduros, it’s been an
unbelievable year. For me, more than anything, all I
know is the doctors don’t know what the hell they’re
talking about because I just proved them wrong. I’ve
had a lot of surgeries. We had eight surgeries. We had
stuff that the doctors said you shouldn’t be riding
with. You shouldn’t ride with bones hanging out, but
we’ve done it. At this point in my career I’m older, I
guess you could say a little bit more wise, but at the
end of the day I’m still hanging it out. That thought’s
always in the back of my mind. What if I get hurt
again? What if I’m in the hospital again? It’s some-
thing that I’ve got to live with but at the same time
I’m so glad to be able to overcome that adversity and
move forward into my career and kind of move back
into the place where I was, where I left off five years
ago.”
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