On The Pegs October 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 10 | Page 134

On The Pegs
JOSH TOTH
On The Pegs spoke with Josh Toth about his practice
routine and about what a typical week would be like.
We own 16 acres, but also we have a lot of neighbors
around that let us ride on their land. It’s all tied togeth-
er. Nobody else really uses the property besides us, so
it works out really well. We have 12 miles of trail just
behind my house. It’s really rocky and gnarly. It’s good
practice for extreme stuff. If I do motos, I try to do them
on a motocross track or something more fast-paced.
I’ll try to do motos during the week at a motocross tack
and then at the end of the day Thursday or Friday, the
last day I ride, I’ll do sprints at the end of the day. I do
that last, so when I get back on the bike that’s the first
thing I remember.
As far as conditioning, I try to stay on the mountain
bike and just cycling in general; either road bike or
mountain bike. I enjoy the mountain bike a lot more, so I
do that.
Leading up to this year I rode a lot of tighter stuff to
practice for the Enduro rounds. I’m getting more com-
fortable in it. I don’t really specifically ride that before-
hand. I just try to keep my intensity up and I know how
to ride in the woods.
As far as pacing for GNCC races, if I get a good start I
can kind of get out there and cruise and get in the flow.
If I get a bad start I got to kind of push in the beginning
and then catch up and get my groove. It’s usually 80%
effort and then the last two laps you got to drop the
hammer and give it everything. The last hour is really
the toughest part, for sure.
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