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And coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman

Hi everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hi everybody and Nate's Nate's grinning. Why are you grinning?

I guess because I got a new fancy bike that's fast

So fast we just found out this morning Nate

He did threshold intervals on on a climb in our region of mountain on mountain bikes

And I went and did a threshold interval. I didn't have my

Disclaimer. I still don't have a head unit. I'm I'm suffering in decision there between which way to go a bit but

This is paced off of what I believe to threshold to be and I'm pretty confident my ability to ride out around threshold and feel that and perceive that

So we both rode at what I least I perceived to be threshold Nate measured to be threshold with great precision and

Nate was only four seconds slower than me. Oh over 10 minutes. It's pretty good. 10 minute climb

Pretty good. And a little technical. I mean, it's not just like a firero climb. It's single track whiny ups and downs

Yeah, not very steep. Not very technical. This is like what I would call this is a

This is the amount of technicality that I like on a cross-country course, right?

Yeah, and it's not like a not like a super steep six percent. Yeah, it's seven or something

Yeah, I'd average is somewhere around there. So it's not like a single track six percent, but I know nothing like that

You know what to I was just descending and I think everything seems so chill now

They don't even seem like downhills or up hills

I actually thought that that that section within 10 minutes

I thought it was like pretty flat like a two percent climb until I looked on on Strava

I was like I didn't think it was a climb. Yeah, because of single track six. Yeah, it's pretty crazy, man

So Nate's getting faster. Yes, I think I think I think I've gotten slower to but I don't want to take that away from the fact that

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