Jackson Goldstone – An Insane Season of Success
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Race seasons don’t get much more exciting than the one Jackson Goldstone had in 2023. This week we’re sitting down with Jackson to delve into the details of what actually went on. From intense rivalries and overcoming appendix issues to how he’s found a winning mindset, our conversation covers it all. So, it’s time to sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Jackson Goldstone.
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| 0:00.0 | There's definitely, you know, some rivalry. |
| 0:03.5 | Yeah, it was getting pretty heated. |
| 0:05.3 | There's always going to be people that are a little bit sore about, you know, |
| 0:08.2 | me beating them. |
| 0:09.6 | And yeah, I think if I end up having that same moment again in my life, |
| 0:15.2 | I'll just try and run away from them and fight back harder. |
| 0:18.4 | So all night practice, all night, coll quality night, just like, you know, |
| 0:24.6 | barfing and everything coming out of every hole you could ever imagine. |
| 0:28.5 | So it was pretty, yeah, it was pretty gruesome. |
| 0:33.6 | I woke up and had a call with the doctor and he's like, yeah, |
| 0:36.9 | I think he needed to come into surgery right now. |
| 0:39.3 | That was some of the most pain I've ever experienced in my life, even worse than the appendix. |
| 0:43.5 | Before my surgery, I was probably weighing in about like 62 kilos, 63, and I weighed myself, and at my lowest, I was 51 kilos. |
| 0:52.2 | So I lost, you know, 10, 11 kilos of weight in two weeks. |
| 1:00.6 | Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast, |
| 1:04.1 | where we're going to be taking you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. |
| 1:08.4 | We'll soon be joined by Jackson Goldston, but a few quick messages |
| 1:11.7 | first. A big shout out to the Patreon supporters for making this content possible. If you want to join |
| 1:17.1 | them in supporting the podcast, then head over to patreon.com forward slash downtime podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | If Patreon isn't your cup of tea, you can support by grabbing yourself some brand new merch at |
| 1:26.4 | downtimepodcast.com |
| 1:27.7 | for slash shop. We're now shipping locally in both the UK and the US. And for everyone else who |
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