Ella Conolly: From XC Burnout to 2025 EDR World Cup Champion!
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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What does it take to become the 2025 Enduro World Cup overall champion... without a factory team and without ever planning to go pro?
In this episode, we sit down with Ella Conolly, the 2025 EDR World Cup overall winner, to hear about her incredible journey. Ella opens up about growing up in Inverness and leaving British Cycling's Olympic program, to discovering enduro (thanks to a knock on the door from Tracy Moseley) and going all in on a new discipline with limited funding, no plan and a passion for adventure. We talk about privateer life, her calculated approach to risk, how she fuels race weekends, finding joy in the process, the power of building your own path, discover wether will Ella plans to race downhill and much more more...
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| 0:00.0 | You know what, sports are quite funny? |
| 0:01.4 | It's the ones where it's like, it starts raining and they don't bother doing it. |
| 0:07.1 | It always makes me, like, cricket, right? |
| 0:10.6 | Cricket's crap. |
| 0:13.2 | Cricket is crap. |
| 0:14.4 | But the fact that it makes it even crapper that when it rains, they're like, |
| 0:19.0 | have to go inside. |
| 0:20.3 | Whoa. |
| 0:22.4 | You don't play cricket in the rain, do they? |
| 0:24.4 | It's like, no, go inside. |
| 0:36.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, the champ is here. |
| 0:44.6 | We have joining us today the 2025 EDR World Cup overall winner, Ella Connolly. |
| 0:47.4 | Oh, what an intro. |
| 0:48.4 | That must feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, no, that sounds really sweet actually. I think that's the first time someone said that out loud, so. |
| 0:53.8 | Really? Yeah, I'm happy with it. |
| 0:55.6 | Has it like sunk in? |
| 0:57.8 | Like this is a massive thing. |
| 1:00.1 | It is huge. I don't think it has done yet. No, I don't think it has. |
| 1:03.7 | It's only been a couple of days and I'm still so tired. Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | I guess you've just been in the van since. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah. Yeah. In the van driving. Yeah. I guess you've just been in the van since. Yeah, yeah. |
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