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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 • Lakeshore Advancezi
Varna motocross rider gears up for Gopher Dunes race this weekend
Vanessa Brown
Clinton News Record
When asked to share his most memo-
rable motocross moment, Nathan Bles
doesn't waste any time. After a quick
pse, he recalls his sixth place finish in
14 'rst professional race at Gopher
maintaining the status quo.
"I'm just going to try and repeat what
I did last year," he said. "Last year was a
huge step... so my expectation is to try
and get the same or better."
But the pressure will be on, he said, as
his family - including Mom and Dad,
uncles and cousins - will be watching
Submitted
Local motocross pro Nathan Bies is shown competing at the Calgary nationals on
June 19.
Dunes in Courtland, Ont. last July. He
was then an amateur qualifying to
become a professional tnotocross racer.
"I'm very proud of that moment; to
get sixth overall in my first pro national
is very impressive" said Bles, a 19 -year-
old Varna native.
It's now one year later, and Bles is
training to race the same event this
Sunday. He officially turned pro this
year, and is a metnber of the Gopher
Dunes Race Team.
For Bles, there's nothing wrong with
him compete on home soil for the first
time since going pro.
Bies has ripped up the terrain of the
Gopher Dunes track hundreds of times
since he began racing motocross at the
age of 10.
His father got him riding young,
giving him his first dirt bike for Christ-
mas when he was three years old. Ile's
had racing fever ever since.
1 never looked back," he said. It was
the first thing and the last thing, pretty
much."
Nowadays, he spends at least
two days a week practicing in
Courtland, and the same
amount of time training in the
gym. He says the key is finding a
balance between motocross
and other interests, and he
stresses the importance of
patiently developing skills over
time.
He credits the qualifying race
at Gopher Dunes last July as his
turning point.
"'Ib me, it was a big confidence
booster," he explained. "I never
raced in a professional race
before, and just being up there
with the fastest riders in Canada
was a big eye opener."
Now hes one of them. This
Sunday's race (narks the fifth in
a series of nine professional
races this year. The circuit has
taken him to Kamloops and
Nanaimo, B.C., Calgary, Alta.,
and Morden, Man. He's finished
in the top 15 in each race.
Professional motocross isn't a
bad Job for a 19 -year-old, he
said.
"It's just an adrenaline rush,"
Bies said. "You wake up with a
smile on your face knowing
you're going to ride a dirt bike
today. It's pretty cool getting to
do what you love."
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