Interview: Cory Wallace from Jasper, BC Canada
by Ryan Leech

What drew you back to the MBC?

The Challenge of it, there is so much to experience out here, it´s a sweet adventure and you don´t forget a day, so stimulating. The camp atmosphere is pretty cool, special people to spend a couple weeks with, learn from them, and hear about their motivations. It´s neat how things evolve, at first sizing people up, then toward end we are all one community.

What is the hardest thing mentally?

Staying in the moment and not thinking too far ahead…trying to do 20km all at once or thinking too much about the next feed zone is exhausting, but when in the moment those things will look after themselves, same as the finish line. Such a small part of the day is on the bike, when looking at the big picture we´re in Mongolia for 350 hours and only 40 of those are on the bike so it´s not that bad, and I came here to bike so just gotta enjoy it. Like life, we´re always striving to get somewhere else but in the moment can deal with anything.

What are you happy to be escaping by being here?

Electronics. We are here, next ten days this is it, no text messages, no email, no phone calls.