Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by a trainer road coach

Jonathan Lee we are clearly not in our studio right now

We're actually in Pacific Grove California and have a special guest with me. Alice in Tetrick. How you doing?

I'm doing well. That's a see-out or week, so I know all the bikers are in town

You're surrounded by bikes off camera right now. They're bikes everywhere bike parts everywhere bike bags the whole thing

Thanks for coming on first of all. This is cool

You are known as the Queen of Canza

You have a ton of different accolades to your name first thing I wanted to say that's interesting

Oh, actually we'll get into something on this soon, but

So you started and try

Well, actually you you actually went to college for tennis right? Yeah, I played tennis in college

Okay, so what did you do is a teenager with athletics at all?

Well, I grew up on a cattle ranch kind of a middle nowhere here on the central coast actually but little south

So in Santa Barbara County in a town called Los Alamos and so we were pretty far from town

So my parents weren't really keen on driving us to and from a bunch of organized sports

So grew up horseback riding, you know playing catch with my dad into the yard and doing kind of just ranch cowgirl stuff

She's your active but not necessarily like any sort of aerobic

endurance sort of like specific endeavors, right? No, not really

But then when I got to high school I started playing tennis and then

Got a full ride to play tennis in college. So huh went went for tennis

Turns out tennis probably wasn't my sport of calling I

Was okay, but yeah, what moved you from tennis to did you go straight to triathlon from tennis basically in terms of athletic proceeds?

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