VOLUME 57 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 14, 2020 P75
I really like the variety and
the different types of terrain
and the intensity and stuff
like that. But with that being
said, my favorite activity
is to just go out on the
weekend and go with
my buddies to just go
ride hard enduro [trails].
I love exploring—you and a
couple buddies seeing if you
can make it to the top of a
mountain that nobody's ever
been to the top of before. I
really enjoy that!
We've heard that while
you like racing Enduro-
Cross, practicing for it
wasn't high on your list of
fun things to do.
I love the technique side
of EnduroCross, the techni-
cal aspect of it and just the
chaos of it was fun at times—
at other times it was frus-
trating. The practicing was
always frustrating because
you're trying to push the limit
on unforgiving obstacles so if
you crash in the rock garden
or in the matrix—which when
you're practicing, you're re-
ally trying to find the limit of
what you're capable of and
you end up crashing. You
might not be going that fast,
but going over the bars in a
rock pile or logs or fire wood
and stuff can be pretty painful
so that was the aspect that
I like—beating your body up
week after week trying to
find the limit of where those
obstacles are.
Is it something you still
practice?
I don't practice Enduro-
Cross per se. Even though I
have all the obstacles in my
backyard, it isn't set up for
EnduroCross anymore; I've
kind of made it into a trials
playground. Trials is definitely
a huge hobby of mine, slash
cross-training as well. Same
thing—I love the technical
aspect of trials. No matter
how good you are at trials,
you can always do better. I
love that aspect of it, espe-
cially because it's a totally
different pace. Going out for
a WORCS race, you might
end up doing 80, 90 miles an
hour in a WORCS race. Tri-
als, you're never really going
over five miles an hour, but
it's just as difficult.
Do you watch videos
of Toni Bou (World Tri-
als champion) and get
inspired?
Winning WORCS races
is nothing new to Robert
but winning WORCS
Championships have been
a different story.
