Charlie Murray: Stepping Away From the Enduro World Cup
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Murray is not racing the Enduro World Cup this year, and he’s joining us to explain why.
This isn’t a retirement story, think of it more as a sabbatical.
One of enduro racing’s most successful riders is stepping away from the World Cup circuit, at least for now, with burnout, injury, and the pressures of racing at the top level all playing a part in that decision.
In this conversation, we go inside that decision, the thinking behind it, and find out what comes next. So sit back, hit play and check out this episode with Charlie Murray.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm on sabbatical at the moment, deciding that I didn't want to chase a full World Cup season this year. |
| 0:04.6 | It takes a while to separate yourself from Charlie the racer, the values, the stories and the |
| 0:09.5 | adversity and the challenges and the characters. |
| 0:12.3 | This is an open a can of worms, but it's not a problem with the racing, but it's a problem with... |
| 0:20.7 | Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast, the podcast for the true fans |
| 0:25.3 | of gravity mountain biking, taking you deeper into the sport than anywhere else. |
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| 1:09.4 | join our newsletter at downtimepodcast.com forward slash newsletter all right charlie murray is not racing the |
| 1:16.1 | enduro world cut this year and he's joining us to explain why this isn't a retirement story think of it |
| 1:21.8 | more as a sabbatical one of injurio racing's most successful riders is stepping away from the |
| 1:26.6 | world cup circuit at least for now with burnout injury and the pressures of racing at the top level One of Enduro racing's most successful riders is stepping away from the World Cup circuit, |
| 1:31.6 | at least for now, with burnout injury and the pressures of racing at the top level, |
| 1:36.3 | all playing a part in that decision. In this conversation, we go inside that decision, |
| 1:42.7 | the thinking behind it and find out what comes next. So, without further ado, here's Charlie Murray. |
| 1:48.8 | Charlie Murray, let's jump straight in, man. |
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