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Cyclist Lachlan Morton Talks Tour de France and World's Most Grueling Rides

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Tour de France is underway, and this week Jeremy Powers sits down with world class cyclist Lachlan Morton of the EF Education-EastPost team. Lachlan has raced in some of the biggest world tour events, but he’s perhaps best known for some of his achievements in ultra long distance and uphill events. He recently set the world record in “Everesting,” climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest in just 7 and a half hours. He also rode the Tour de France route last summer by himself, riding 12 ho...

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0:00.0

What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop Podcast, where we sit down with top athletes,

0:06.2

researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world they're doing to perform at

0:10.7

their peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host,

0:15.5

Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

0:21.6

All right, the Tour to France is underway, so it's fitting that this week we sit down

0:26.7

with world-class cyclists, Lachlan Morton.

0:30.1

Lachlan's accomplishments on the bike are truly legendary.

0:33.9

I don't say that lately.

0:35.1

He's raced in some of the biggest world tour events, but he's perhaps best known for some of his achievements in ultra long distance and uphill

0:43.1

events. He recently set the world record in Everesting, climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest,

0:49.3

so that's 29,000 feet, in just seven and a half hours. He also rode the Tour to France route last summer

0:57.6

by himself, riding 12 hours a day, sleeping intense alongside the road, and raising $700,000 for charity

1:05.2

in the process. Lockland sits down with Woop resident cycling expert Jeremy Powers, who's a star himself, by the way,

1:12.4

to discuss Lockland's journey to cycling and what he's learned throughout his career,

1:16.9

his inspiration for doing, in his words, stupid long rides, the toll the Tour de France route took on his body and what his Woop data looked like,

1:27.3

why perspective and gratitude are

1:28.9

key components of success, and his commitment to charitable rides and how he's raised millions of

1:34.6

dollars by taking on cycling adventures around the world. Also worth noting, we have new ways to

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