Hey everybody and welcome to a very special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road

I'm coach Jonathan Lee and I know this is a different not an ideal studio environment

We're inside our RV in the middle of the desert

But with me here is our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, and we have a special guest with us

Friend of the podcast trainer road user an incredible athlete 24 hour world champion Sonya looney. How you doing?

Good. Hi, Rowan and for those that don't know you should check out Sonia has a podcast too

Actually what's it called? Yeah, it's called the Sonya looney show and it's about mindset plant-based nutrition and inspiring stories

Help you be better every day

Good pitch. Yeah, the tone right too is good

So and you've been racing mountain bikes for some time you started out racing a lot of exeo stuff

You ended up transitioning more into the endurance side of things ultra endurance as well

In fact like it usually merit or mountain biking for those that don't know usually it's broken down so

There's like short track which is really rare short track is like a 30 minute event

But that would be a long one usually like 15 to 20 minutes usually

Then from short track you go to exeo or cross-country Olympic

That's usually somewhere around 90 minutes give or take 15 to 30 minutes on either side

Then you go in a marathon. That's usually like 30 to 50 miles ish

We're talking somewhere around like a three hour race and then there's ultra marathon

Which that's like a hundred miles who knows how long and then you also have done like crazy stage races across Mongolia

in Brazil I mean all over the place too so

So this podcast is gonna be really focused on

Takeaways from endurance ultra endurance racing that sort of stuff because we are actually here Nate

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