Hello and welcome back.

You tuned into episode 176 of King of the Ride podcast.

I'm your host, Ted King.

This, my friends, is a great one.

Today's guest is Jenna Reinhart.

Now, if you've followed the Lifetime Grand Prix the past three years, you recognize her name as she's always right up there in the mix. She has finished as high as sixth overall in the series,

and she's off to a storming start this year, as she's not formally in the series, but she leads

the wildcard standings after a smashing opening around at sea otter.

She then quickly followed that up by taking victory at the Highlands gravel race one week later.

That's a UCI qualifier in Arkansas just a few weeks back.

And therefore, unbound, of course, looms large on the horizon for gravel cyclists worldwide.

Jenna included, which is going to dictate a good portion of the rest of her year.

And that's all interesting stuff, but one of the most interesting pieces of the puzzle

is that Jenin does this as the co-owner, and let's call it the finance manager, of the Nicollett

Bike Shop in her hometown in Minnesota.

So in this modern world of gravel pros, duking it out in the Grand Prix, casually sleeping in, dictating a daily schedule around the time on the bike,

Jenna has a successful business to run, employees to keep happy, and of course intervals to bang out somewhere in the meantime.

So heck, we could have talked entirely about the state of retail cycling here in the U.S. as an entire podcast, but that's not today's show.

This, what we do talk about, this all represents something of an unexpected chapter in her career arc.

Because Jennifer's got into cycling 25 plus years ago.

In fact, she won her first national title in the U23 mountain bike category 20 years ago, 2006,

which launched her first foray into cycling, followed by subsequently stepping away from the sport for a number of years.

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