043: Tyler Wren | What pro cycling teaches about winning

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The span of Tyler Wren's 13 year pro cycling career included a time when doping was rampant. Giving in to the status quo, while risky, could almost certainly have landed Wren a coveted spot in the Tour de France. He was too well grounded in his values: To him success was not about his position relative to others, but becoming the best person he could be. Learn about his journey which has taken him, currently, to directing bucolic, community oriented cycling events, the next of which takes place at the birthplace of Spartan Race in Pittsfield, Vermont.

Lessons:

1. Success is personal. It's about focusing on and achieving your own goals without being diverted by other's opinions.
2. Align your values with your actions by writing them down and hanging them in easy view.
3. Just stepping out the door is simultaneously the simplest and hardest action you can take in service of success.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	All right, Tyler Wren.
0:14.0	Welcome back, everybody.
0:15.0	As always, we are here in the beautiful Pittsfield barn.
0:19.0	And as I've got to my left, I've got Sephiro,
0:22.0	I've got Johnny, and I've got to my left I've got Sephi, I've got Johnny, and I've got Joe and we're going to talk about Tyler Wren, world-class cyclist.
0:28.7	A lot of discussion out there about cyclists doping or how do they get to the top their training techniques and everything else and I think
0:36.9	Tyler's got a kind of an interesting perspective on all this so I think I mean
0:40.7	I don't know if I want to give it away but it was clearly just a lighter bike that's that's it
0:46.0	Not it was a city bike later bike let's just go to the rap then we don't need to talk
0:49.5	We are here for Spartan up podcast of the Amy Farm in Pittsfield, Vermont with Tyler Wren, right over here.
0:56.6	You were a professional cyclist for how many years?
0:59.8	13 years.
1:00.8	13 years.
1:01.8	How old are you? 33 from 20 well like when did you become
1:06.3	professional that's right I started in college actually my junior year was my first
1:10.0	first pro contract and by my senior year I was I was juggling it pretty hard
1:13.2	between school work and writing my thesis on the road that kind of thing.
1:16.5	Did you see the movie breaking away or something when you were younger and how did
1:20.6	you end up becoming a professional cyclist?
1:23.0	I have seen that movie breaking away.
1:24.4	That wasn't why I became a professional cyclist.
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