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JACOB ARGUBRIGHT: 2019 KENDA/SRT AMA HARE & HOUND NATIONAL CHAMPION P94 Interview long ago I don't even remember why! I think I needed a number and I ended up just choos- ing it; I thought it was cool. You didn't get much time to savor win- ning the championship because a couple weeks later was the ISDE, which you rode for the first time. That had to be very differ- ent with the change of format for you and racing in Europe for the first time. How was that whole experience? It was cool; it was super-fun! I definitely was not prepared for it as much as I wanted to be. Physically, too, I wasn't 100 percent because after the hare and hound, I went and did [an AMA District 37] sprint enduro and I broke my foot so I was a little off, physically. I guess my bike prep was a little off, too, because hare and hound was my focus. Sad to say, I put ISDE on the back burner a little bit. But if I were to have the same opportunity, I would do it again to win the hare and hounds because I've been trying to do it for so long. But it was cool. It's definitely different over there! I like going to Europe and traveling; I've been over there before so it was fun to go over, but the racing is different. Especially for a desert guy! It's a lot dif- ferent riding on city streets, riding in the rain, riding in the woods. I liked the adventure! I thought it was fun. After doing different races this year, what have you learned from them? There's a lot of things I've learned this year. I'm definitely narrowing my focus to become the best desert racer I can be. That's why I'll do hare and hounds again, and I can't be the best desert racer and not do Baja. I want to go to Finke (Aus- tralia) because that's a desert race. I'll do some Best in the Desert. The thing I've learned this year is stay in your lane. Seriously, that goes for so many aspects in life. During racing, like in Texas, Joe passed me on the first loop and I stayed in my lane and I didn't worry about it. I just rode my race and I ended up catching back up to him and passing everybody. It applies in so many different ways. What other people are doing, like worry- ing about [other] people's training or how good they're riding—don't worry about it. Stay in your lane. For goals, what you want to achieve, things will pop up to distract you, but stay in your lane, focus on your goal. It sounds like a silly thing, but I think people go off course easily. It's taken me this long to learn it. I wish it hadn't but oh well. CN