Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist,

the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road.

And today we have Hannah Otto with us to talk about her

cocoa pelly FKT, all the nerdy details about it.

If you haven't seen the video, we'll leave the link down below so you can check it out.

You might see like screenshots and stuff of what we're talking about here and hopefully you go and watch it.

It's fantastic, but we'll get into the nerdy details, even though you shared a decent amount of them in the video, but more nerdy stuff than what you cover in the video.

I raced Downeville this weekend and I'm alive to tell the tale. We'll go through that and what happened there, that was my A race for the year.

And then we're also gonna if we have some time

well you might cover some questions. We've got a lot of them submitted at trainroad.com

slash podcast. Hannah I want to get into it can you explain with the Cocopelli

and first of all what an FKT is and then explain what the

cochopelli trail is so then everyone else context.

Yeah so FKT stands for fastest known time and typically it's basically an individual time trial.

So in mountain biking, we don't have world records

like we would in something like track

where it's like, this is the time for the mile. So instead we try and

set records on specific trails, specific terrain, and this is a way that we can go for these individual records or individual time trials on the mountain

bike.

So I attempted the fastest known time on the Cocopelli Trail, which is a 137 mile trail.

It has 16,000 feet of climbing, and it starts...

Yeah, 137 miles on trail and 16 Kvert.

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