34 |MAY 2019 http://www.adbmag.com.au
THEPASTMONTHhasbeen
excellent for my recovery!
Because of my broken
collarbone, I’ve had to focus on
my off-bike training which
includes a daily boot camp and
a bunch of gym work, but, two
weeks ago I was cleared to ride.
Since then I’ve been building
my ride fi tness and starting my
on-bike preparation for the
Luca Oil Pro Motocross
Championship.
It feels great to be back on
the bike pounding out as many
laps as I can! My collarbone and
shoulder feel awesome too,
they don’t give me any dramas
which is perfect.
California is probably the
greenest I’ve ever seen it. We
have had a fair bit of rain (for
Californian standards) over the
past few months, so the tracks
have been pretty wicked. And,
just recently the Southern
California winds have picked up
so instead of miserable cold
and rainy winter days, they
have 30-40mph winds!
Riding on these days is
pretty sketchy and you try do
what you can without being
stupid. Typically, we will call it a
day after we are a satisfi ed
with our seat time. It varies
eachweekbutifwe’vehad
several good days of riding
prior to the bad wind days, we
will sometimes just ride for
about 45 minutes before
calling it, just to reduce the risk
of crashing. If we think it’s too
dangerous and the risk is too
high, making riding unsafe, we
will call it early. We’d rather
miss one day of riding rather
than suffer a freak crash.
In this line of work, being a
professional athlete really
makes you evaluate your risk
versus reward. So many things
come to mind to keep yourself
injury free and safe.
The older I get the more
experience I get with this.
Some days your speed is okay
so you just focus on hitting
your marks and getting quality
laps in the bank. Then, you
have other days where your
feeling in the groove and you
push harder and can go into
that next zone. Learning what
battles to fi ght to win the war is
a big experience thing!
Not too long ago I went to
Target and bought some
tennis rackets and some
tennis balls. My family and
girlfriend and I have been
practising and playing tennisBACK ON THE BIKE
HAS HUNTER BEEN PREPARING FORTHEOUTDOORSBYPLAYINGTENNIS?
SOIL SAMPLE
HUNTER
LAWRENCELAWRENCE OF
AUSTRALIASOME DAYS YOUR
SPEED IS OKAY
SO YOU JUST
FOCUS ON
HITTING YOUR
MARKS AND
GETTING QUALITY
LAPS IN THE
BANK.
Milo. So far, being a parent
(to a dog) isn’t too bad. He
poo’d in the house at fi rst but
by the second day he was
much better. Now he has
everything dialled, I reckon
this parenting thing is easy!
Kidding, of course.
The team and I are currently
developing our outdoors bike.
We’re testing engines and
other stuff, which means long
days in the saddle but its crazy
when you see how many things
you can change. This makes
me feel knackered, but, after
riding I always do a minimum
of 20 minutes cycling to get all
the lactic acid out of my
muscles. You feel stiff and sore
from the big work, but after
10-15 minutes you start to feel
better as fresh blood pumps
through your body. I also
stretch for recovery and use a
TheraGun massage tool. The
TheraGun is like a jackhammer
with a rubber ball on the end of
it. I use it on all muscle parts
on my body and it helps loosen
and relax them to aid recovery.
I’m itching to get on the gate
soon. Stay tuned to my social
media pages @hunterlawrence
for daily updates.for a bit of downtime fun. My
Dad is pretty good at tennis as
he was right into ball sports
growing up. My brother Jett
however, is not good, and
sadly neither am I. It’s
frustrating because we suck!
When we were living in
Europe we didn’t know how
long we would be there for so
we weren’t able to get a pet.
We had a dog while growing
up in Australia so we miss
having a dog. But, the other
day I went and had a look at a
little French Bulldog and he
was awesome! We walked
back in the next day and
bought him and called him