On The Pegs June 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 6 | Page 151

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 6 - June 2019
151
In just his second ride as a Pro, Alex Myer stunned everyone with an im-
pressive second place finish on Sunday.
Are you surprised at how well you did today?
Yes, it took me by surprise. Yesterday I had a seventh place, which wasn’t where I
wanted to be on my first ride in pro class. But today I just gathered what I learned
from yesterday and put it all together. At the end of the day, I worked all the kinks
out and I’m super happy to get second.
How big of a jump has it been from Expert to Pro?
It’s not as big as I thought because last year in expert Josh and I both were at the
very top of the class. We had very few points every day of the nationals. My prog-
ress as a curve going from expert to pro, it was almost seamless. It felt really natu-
ral. I feel like I belong in the class now. Hopefully my results through the season
show it.
You got seventh on Saturday. What was the difference between yesterday
and today and how you rode?
I think I focused a little bit more on the things that caught me out yesterday,
some of the harder sections. I thought about it a little bit longer so that hopefully
I could have gotten through it. That’s what actually happened today. Overall I’m
happy with the progress from yesterday to today.
So tell us about that two-point last loop.
I focused on it section by section. I didn’t think about the whole loop. I didn’t
think about what I already did. I thought about the next section. That helped me
to clean almost every section on that loop.
How do you feel?
I feel great. It’s a dream come true almost because I never thought that I’d get
from seventh to second in a day’s time. It’s really crazy.
Does this give you momentum going into the rest of the season?
I think so, because the rest of the season is in relatively slippery places. Minne-
sota is known to be a little bit slick because it’s cold up there. Oregon has always
been really rainy. So that gives me momentum after a slick day in Nebraska to be
able to go forward in the season. n