RUST Magazine: RUST#33

Taddy Blazusiak and Jonny Walker
done it this last year. My girlfriend likes
holidays, she wants to go on holiday,
but I said we’ll go on holiday when we’re
winning – and we’re not totally winning
yet! When things are sorted and I’m
back racing well, yes, we’ll go on holiday
– but not until then!
Taddy: You know, there is no
guidebook for how to go through your
career. Maybe you would never do what
I did, I would maybe never have been
who I was if I trained like you. You have
to know what you’re doing and make
your own decisions. This is racing, it’s
so individual, some people train more
and some people can stick to their own
routine for years, you can’t really say
what’s good and what’s bad. It’s such
a difficult life you know; when you’re
a pro racer you have to find a way that
makes sense for you, but always it’s
hard work.
ON WORKING TOGETHER…
Jonny: It’s helped to train together.
I don’t think you’ve ever trained with
anyone before, so no one has known
what you’re doing, everyone has been
trying to catch you. But by riding
together I feel we can bring the sport
on some more, because its two heads.
Taddy: Yeah, it’s massive, you can
improve so much faster if you ride with
someone, and it just makes you ride
harder, for sure there are benefits. Back
in December 2016 when I was going
to retire I didn’t think I’d ride as much
as I have this past year, and definitely
I wouldn’t have ridden so much if you
hadn’t been hanging around. I took two
months off from riding and since then
I’ve been riding constantly. It wasn’t
my plan to do it that way but it’s cool
that riding with you has brought the
fun back into riding for me, that’s the
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