Downtime Goes Downhill (Racing) – Episode Five – Medals
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Downtime Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that’s going to take you with us as we have a go at racing downhill at both a regional and national level.
Chris, Jonathan and Ben are three different riders, with different abilities, strengths, weaknesses, goals and fears. We’ll share our preparation, training and setup, along with our different approaches to getting faster and our progress. You’ll hear all about our experiences at the races, good and bad. We’ll also be bringing in some of the best in the world to help us improve throughout the year, so hopefully there will be heaps to learn too.
Downtime Goes Downhill wouldn’t be happening without the support of some incredible brands. So a massive thanks to Canyon bikes, Fox suspension, Wahoo Fitness, Fox clothing and protection, Maxxis tyres, Magura brakes and We Are One Composites wheels.
This is episode five where flat pedals won National Champ medals. The weather didn’t play ball and this was our first mud race, and man was it muddy. Hear how we all coped, what went well and what didn’t and how will we approach improving from here. We really hope you’re enjoying coming on this ride with us, so sit back, hit play and listen to episode four of Downtime Goes Downhill.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Down Time Goes Downhill. |
| 0:06.0 | A podcast miniseries is going to take you with us as we ever go at racing downhill |
| 0:09.8 | at both a regional and national level. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm your host Chris Hall and I'll be joined by my good friends, Jonathan Matthews and Ben Thompson, |
| 0:16.6 | three different riders with different abilities, strengths, weaknesses, goals and fears. |
| 0:21.1 | We'll share our preparation, training and setup, along with our different approaches to |
| 0:25.1 | get in faster and our progress. You'll hear all about our experiences at the races, both good |
| 0:30.0 | and bad. We'll also be bringing in some of the best in the world to help us improve throughout |
| 0:34.0 | the year. So there's going to be heaps to learn too. Downtime goes downhill wouldn't be happening without the support of some incredible brands. |
| 0:41.0 | So a massive thank you to Canyon bikes, Fox suspension, Wahu Fitness, Fox clothing and |
| 0:46.4 | protection, Maxis tires, Magura brakes and WeR One Compass's Wheels. |
| 0:51.0 | This is episode five where flat pedals won national champ medals. The weather didn't play |
| 0:55.7 | ball and this was our first mud race and man was it muddy. Here how we all coped, what went well |
| 1:01.6 | and what didn't and how we're going to approach improving from here. So without further ado, |
| 1:06.6 | here's downtime goes downhill. Episode 5. |
| 1:18.5 | All right, we are back for a catch-up after an interesting weekend at National Champs. |
| 1:19.0 | There's some silverware came home with the team for the first time. |
| 1:24.0 | So that's a pretty exciting thing that we'll definitely talk about. Before we do that, |
| 1:29.6 | my version of the weekend wasn't quite so impressive. So I'll just share, I guess, |
| 1:35.3 | where I'm at and why I didn't end up racing. So I've been struggling with fatigue since coming |
| 1:43.2 | back from Stone King Rally, which is now |
| 1:46.0 | four weeks ago, which in my head seems utterly ridiculous. |
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