Ep. 011: Kate Rau – Mountain Bike Racing and Touring.
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Curt visits with Kate about mountain biking, especially about biking with high school students. Kate was the Founding Committee Chair and brought the NICA model to Colorado in 2010. She was the Program Manager of Singletrack Mountain Bike Adventures (SMBA) where she directed a 7-month season for riders ranging in ages from 7 to 17. She served as community outreach coordinator, sponsorship liaison, and planned adventures from trail work to epic rides across mountain passes. She is passionate about the benefits of positive youth development from the saddle of a mountain bike.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure |
| 0:08.0 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | Brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:25.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:41.9 | Our guest today is Kate Rao, who is currently the executive director of the Colorado |
| 0:47.0 | High School Cycling League. |
| 0:48.8 | Kate was the founding committee chair and brought the Nika model to Colorado in 2010. |
| 0:54.1 | Nika is the National |
| 0:55.6 | Interscholastic Cycling Association, and they brought high school mountain biking to the |
| 1:01.3 | high schools here in Colorado. She was the program manager of single track mountain biking |
| 1:05.5 | adventures, where she directed a seven-month season for riders ranging in ages from |
| 1:10.1 | seven to 17. She served as a |
| 1:12.4 | committee outreach coordinator, sponsorship liaison, and planned adventures from trailwork to epic rides |
| 1:18.5 | across mountain passes. She's passionate about the benefits of positive youth development from the |
| 1:24.2 | saddle of a mountain bike. Kate has a master's degree in education and volunteers as a court-appointed special advocate. |
| 1:30.2 | She was a supervisor, training coordinator, and skiing snowboard instructor at El Dora Mountain Resort for 15 years. |
| 1:37.2 | Kate's background includes working in the mental health field and environmental consulting. |
| 1:41.4 | Kate Rao, wow, what a resume there. Welcome to the program. Thanks. Happy to be |
| 1:46.4 | here. Yeah, we're really excited. So with all of that background, we could probably talk about all |
| 1:50.9 | sorts of different adventures. But listeners, this is about mountain biking particularly today. |
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