Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach

Coacheon Road on Coach Jonathan Lee.

And today we have with us, Team 24's Malisa Rawlins.

She just won the Leadville 100.

Malisa, you didn't just win the race like casually but instead you put on like a really really

impressive race and you have a history with this race I think you are you the first

maybe in recent history or maybe at all like the first women's

runner who's also done the run or women's racer on the bike side has also done the run.

I'm yeah that's that's probably true. I hadn't considered that but yeah that's crazy.

Probably yeah I'm like a I'm a Leadville junkie over here.

It's it's wild because it you know somebody listening to that is

probably thinking like oh she's been coming to Leadville forever and that's like or like

endurance sport forever but 2010 was your first time doing Levville.

And prior to that, 2016, forgive me,

it was the first time you did Leville.

Prior to that, and that was your junior year in college, correct?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. yeah and prior to that you had not been an

endurance athlete junkie like we're talking about not a Leadville junkie or

anything else like that right? No no not, not at all. No, I was halfway through college. I was super immersed in campus life. I did the whole like freshman 15, freshman 30 situation and was kind of like I wanted

something to do I wanted to try something out. So yeah, I have a little bit of history with my family doing Leadville and I approached my parents with, you know, a little idea that maybe I could try out

this thing that they've been doing for two decades.

Yeah, but can we cover that really quick?

...