Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer Rodam coach Jonathan Lee and today we are going to do hot takes

Ivy's joining me. We also have Keegan Swenson from Santa Cruz bicycles

Sram Rafa monster the whole other list of sponsors and much or I probably forgot some good ones there Keegan

I'm sorry. It's good to have you

Yeah, first things first that we need to kick off. We need to ask you we've got a lot of hot takes for you Keegan

It's gonna be fantastic and this is gonna be a short episode probably like 50 minutes

But it's just this week we're constrained on time and this is what we got so we're gonna make it a fun one high value

First I want to ask you last year you won the lifetime Grand Prix last year for those that don't know big gravel series in the US

It does have some mountain bike racing in it too about it's primarily a gravel series and you won it last year

The inaugural inaugural year of it what mistakes even though you won a lot of the races and everything else

What mistakes did you make last year that you're planning on remitting for this year? Can you think of any?

I mean, I didn't win unbound that was a mistake

Just to put it bluntly

But in terms of like the overall series I think that I

Think I did everything quite well. I got us real to be smart on

Equipment entire choice and like you know looked at like the broad, you know the whole season the whole instead of focusing on

Missile race every race to win and was focusing on individual races, but I also had like the

the full

Calendar or vice-credible whole series in my back my braid, you know thinking about like I'm it need to be smart on tires

And not risk it so much and you know not maybe not risking by crashing and just being a little bit smarter and

Treating it as an overall while still trying to focus on the individual races. It's definitely the balance there

Because you can't focus too much on the overall. Otherwise you let the individual races get away. I think that's

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