On The Pegs May 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 5 | Page 114

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not physically demanding days, they’re just mentally
tough. Like sitting in the same spot, where your knee
braces sit on the back of your legs, your legs are sore
from that. Your ass is sore from sitting down on the road
and that sort of stuff. So I think just overall the event is
more mentally demanding than anything.
Since Chile was so dusty it was so easy to make mis-
takes in the special tests. You watch videos of Daniel
Millner, he was just always really smooth, where if you
went somewhere in Europe maybe where it was a
real grass track, you could be more aggressive on the
throttle. That’s somewhere where I struggled this year
was just getting used to those conditions. There were
places where my bike, I was running in third and fourth
where normally I would never be in fourth gear or even
third, and it’s a corner where you could probably do it
in second, maybe even first, and you’re doing it in third
gear because you’re trying to get as much as drive and
as little spin as possible. It’s different. I think it’s an event
that everyone could probably do. It’s not crazy. Zach
Bell did his first one this year, and there’s people that do
their first all the time. It’s not an event that’s impossible,
it’s just you have to be smart about it. It’s an endurance
event where you just have to keep going and looking
after your stuff.
Talk about the balance between going fast versus
the need to finish.
Spain for me, I think every test in Spain I crashed lead-
ing up to that fourth day. This year I came into it think-
ing, it is a six-day event. It’s not a full gas where you
have to make the twelve tests. I don’t know how many
tests total we did. We have trail, and it’s regular road
rules here, not very much restriction on speed and that
sort of stuff. They were complaining about some of the
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