Athlete Interviews: Sofia Gomez Villafane – Stan's Pivot Pro Team
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Sofía Gomez Villafañe is the current XCO and STXC National Champion of Argentina and a rising star in the sport of Cross-Country mountain biking. She's a relative newcomer to the sport and still maintains a part-time job while training and racing full-time for the Stans-Pivot Pro Team p/b Maxxis.
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Tune in, get faster, and follow Sofia's racing on her social channels @sofithevilla and @stanspivot.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• Sofia's pre-race dinner of choice
• Sofia's sleep hacks
• Morning routines for race day
• Pre-race breakfast
• Sofia's structured warmup
• What music Sofia listens to before a race
• Sofia's favorite place to ride
• How Sofia is improving her psychological performance for racing
• Balancing work, school and training
• Sofia's favorite post-win indulgence
• The one thing Sofia wishes she did more of in her early years as a pro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, coach Jonathan here back with another special episode in this series of podcasts with the stands pivot team presented by |
| 0:07.1 | Maxis |
| 0:08.1 | This time we're talking with Sophia Gomez video funnier |
| 0:11.4 | As I mentioned yesterday, this is a series of interviews with this new team that we're sponsoring and it's pretty exciting |
| 0:16.5 | So if you've listened to yesterday's podcast |
| 0:18.4 | I won't go through the explanation of what this podcast is about but in short |
| 0:22.1 | We talked to Sophia about her race prep everything she does from the night before all the way to when the gun goes off |
| 0:28.2 | And also asked some fun questions that you submitted at forum.trainerode.com |
| 0:32.4 | So if you didn't listen to the previous episode you can do so that's Chloe Woodrow's episode and moving forward we will hear from |
| 0:40.0 | Keegan Swenson who is one of the best cross country mountain bike racers in the US as well |
| 0:44.4 | A bit of information on Sophia |
| 0:45.7 | She is currently the Argentine cross country Olympic and cross country short track champion |
| 0:51.1 | Surprisingly, she hasn't been racing professionally with her sole focus on pro racing for very long |
| 0:56.8 | And in college she just simply did it as a fun thing to do |
| 1:00.3 | So it's really impressive to see somebody having such a strong rise |
| 1:04.3 | I'd say a meteoric rise over the past really a couple years especially |
| 1:08.7 | She's now at the front of every race that she's been entering here in the United States mixing up with even the world champion Kate Courtney |
| 1:16.1 | And I'm just really excited to see where Sophia goes |
| 1:19.1 | So once again, we're sponsoring this team this year. You should absolutely give them a follow |
| 1:22.6 | I hope you enjoy this podcast |
| 1:25.0 | And if you have any questions for Sophia or any of the other team members |
| 1:28.8 | You can find a post for each one of these episodes at forum.trainerode.com |
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