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P128 INTERVIEW I AMA ENDUROCROSS & U.S. HARD ENDURO CHAMPION TRYSTAN HART sky like 20 or 30 feet to a flat landing. So, the suspension is the biggest difference for me, and that takes a little bit of adjustment. It sounds like the suspension is different because of the obstacles, almost like supercross versus motocross? Is your suspension stiffer because of the obstacles for the indoor events? Yeah. It's pretty similar to compare it to super - cross versus motocross. They run a really stiff setup in Supercross, and motocross it's a little bit softer just because you need a little better feel through the bumps, which is pretty much like hard enduro. We have a lot of gnarly situations, and the bike has got to mold over the terrain. You raced in three different championships this year and you won the U.S. Hard Enduro Championship and the EnduroCross Champi - onship. You got third in the FIM Hard Enduro Championship. Will you do all three of those championships again next year? It's still up in the air. I'm actually at the Red Bull APC [Athlete Performance Center] right now in Santa Monica. Going to get some recovery in. Then I'm doing our team photo shoot for a week, and then I'm going on vacation with my girlfriend to New Zealand and Australia for almost a month. I'm actually not going to be riding for a bit now, just to try and recover from doing three series. Two of them are hard enduros where they're all four or five hours. Romaniacs is a 25-hour race. So, it's a lot. After you include all the travel in, too, it's definitely a lot for one person. So, I'm going to take some time and think about it. I definitely want to do it, but I also don't want to be done racing at 27 years old and doing three series is just a lot. So, we'll see. You've been on KTM now for a couple years. I know your girlfriend and your parents are at a lot of events, even with the travel from Canada making it a little bit difficult. That probably helps keep you going as well. Can you talk about that a little bit? Yeah. I would say that everyone at the races would probably like to be in my situation. I don't think anyone has the support system I have. Every - one at KTM, there are so many people from KTM. Antti [Kallonen, Director of Off-Road Racing for KTM] was there, Timmy [Tim Weigand, FMF KTM Factory Racing Team Manager] was there. Our technician was there. My mechanic is always there for me. Plus, my parents were at almost every race. My girlfriend was at two or three of them. All my sisters, my brother, they all showed up at the Hart battles one of the world's best hard enduro racers, Manuel Lettenbichler, en route to this year's Tennessee Knockout victory.