How do you set an FKT on Kokopelli's Trail? Stop trying to be perfect, says Hannah Otto.
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hannah Otto recently became the fastest known woman to ride the 137-mile-long Kokopelli's trail from Moab, Utah to Loma, Colorado, besting the previous fastest known time by over an hour. In addition to racing gravel and mountain bikes, she's also a certified athletic trainer.
- How do you feel now that you can finally talk about your accomplishment? Were you worried someone else would make an FKT attempt between then and now?
- In October you made your first attempt, but it didn't work out. What happened.
- What did you do differently the second time around?
- What was your bike setup? What did you eat?
- How do you pace yourself for a ride like this?
- Do you think this FKT rules that should be updated or clarified to allow film crews as long as they don't offer any assistance?
- How much of a role does luck play in mountain bike racing, versus skill and fitness?
- Do individual time trials also make you a faster racer in more traditional events, or is this a specialized skill set?
- What's next? Do you have any more FKT attempts on the horizon?
View the Kokopelli Strong film on Youtube and follow @hannah_finchamp on Instagram. Photo credit: @mahkus.g.
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| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Hannah Otto. |
| 0:26.8 | Hannah recently became the fastest known woman to ride the 137-mile-long Cocapelle's Trail from Moab, Utah, to Loma, Colorado, |
| 0:37.1 | besting the previous fastest- known time by over an hour. |
| 0:41.0 | In addition to racing gravel and mountain bikes, she's also a certified athletic trainer. |
| 0:46.4 | Thanks for joining me, Hannah. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm so excited to talk about this. |
| 0:51.4 | Awesome. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, congratulations on the finish. |
| 0:56.0 | Must be exciting. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | It's been, well, like we'll talk about, it's been more than a year in the making. |
| 1:04.0 | So that makes it extra rewarding for sure. |
| 1:08.0 | Right. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. So your record-breaking ride actually happened back in May. |
| 1:14.3 | And so, yeah, now it's July and you can finally talk about it. How does that feel? Was that like, |
| 1:20.3 | were you nervous kind of leading up to this or excited to tell people? Like, what were you feeling? |
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