RUST magazine: RUST #44

Jocelin Snow
on to the bitter end. Each day they made a
cut and so less and less women were left
competing. And I kept finding myself moving
on, all the way to the finals. I couldn’t believe
it.
Then at the end, oh gosh, they called the
team of three going to Mongolia. I’d finished
fourth by just a couple of points. I was
cheering for the winners, so happy for them
while devastated for myself – a lot of emotion.
Then came the announcement that they’d
decided there was gonna be two teams, for
the first time ever. I as good as collapsed, I was
so elated, shocked, so mixed up with emotion!
I can’t even talk about how awesome it was.
And we weren’t even home for 48 hours
before I had an email from BMW saying they
were sending straight us back to South Africa
to train with our team! And that was beautiful,
too. It was such an experience. And then
came the GS Trophy in Mongolia, of course.
INSPIRING WOMEN
Since then it has become my mission to
inspire women, to show them how beautiful
adventure riding can be and how they can
find their freedom. You want to talk about
#make life a ride? What that is to me: it’s
freedom and passion, and scenery, and
taking yourself out of your comfort zone,
and discovering the unknown, and making
friends and helping each other along the
way... and smelling the roses, you know?
When I was road racing professionally I
was really young. And there weren’t a lot of
women riding motorcycles back then. And
so I became kind of a celebrity, I guess. I’d be
on the six o’clock news, there’s be articles in
the newspapers and autograph sessions. And
I was so young, I didn’t know how to handle
it. And I feel I was selfish. I feel like it went to
my head. And I was like, me, me, me, me, me!
But time passes and that little bit of fame goes
away, and people forget who you are. And I
grew older, and when I looked back on those
days I was kind of embarrassed. Like: wow,
that was my moment. I was selfish and I didn’t
handle it right.
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