Keep Riding into Your 50's advice from Tinker Juarez / LA RUTA

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This interview is dedicated to our gracious, enthusiastic, and gone too soon series host Roy Wallack. Rest in peace.

“The best social security is to keep on riding.”

Tinker Juarez (@dtinker) is 59 years old and still rides 350 miles a week. His consistency and dedication to training is the main focus of today’s episode. La Ruta Series on the SpartanUp Podcast host Roy M. Wallack talks with Tinker about training secrets for those of us past our athletic primes.

In this episode you’ll learn:
• Tinker’s weekly training regiment
• Why Tinker prefers training on a road bike
• Why he always includes climbing on his ‘hard days’
• A deep-dive on a Tinker’s nearly 3-hour riding workouts
• Tinker’s diet strategy for big races

Background: David "Tinker" Juarez is a 2x Olympian, former professional BMX racer and is one of the most decorated mountain bike racers of all time. Juarez got his start in BMX racing when he was just 16. For the next 10 years, built an impressive career in BMX, but then mountain biking pulled him in a different direction. Today, Juarez is still racing for Cannondale, his bike sponsor since 1994, and racing at the elite pro level most weekends of the season.

Connect with Roy:

• Hear more about La Ruta, the world's hardest mountain-bike race, on Roy's Bike for Life Stories podcast: https://roywallack.wixsite.com/bikeforlifestories
• Read Roy’s book: Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100 and Beyond

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CREDITS:
Producer: Ryan Warner
Host: Roy Wallack
Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I make sure to ride my bike I make sure to do this kind of mountain miles I make sure to stay on this clock I don't try to say oh I did an hour
0:07.6	No I try to stay if I'm gonna go do two hours. I'm gonna do two hours. I'm gonna do four hours. I'm going to do four hours. I'm going to the
0:14.2	LaRuta series on Spartan Up podcast with host Roy Wallick.
0:18.4	Hi, this is Roy Wallack, the host of the LaRuta Spartan Up
0:22.2	podcast on today's episode. the host of the La Ruta Spartan Up podcast.
0:24.0	On today's episode, we talk again with Mountain Bike Great Tinker
0:29.0	Juarez, and this time we're going to focus on how he has managed to say so fit and so competitive
0:37.8	At almost 60 years old you want to stick around for this one
0:46.0	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Headspace. You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple.
0:51.0	Go to Headspace.com slash Spartan for a free one month trial with access to
0:56.4	Headspace's full library of meditations for every situation.
1:00.3	I'm back here. This is Roy Wallach, author of Bike for Life. Long time
1:06.9	Larrutto writer and writer interviewing Tinker War is probably the most well-known mountain biker in the world and a multi-time veteran of
1:17.4	LaRuta and Tinker now is going to talk about how he's managed to say this fit at this age.
1:26.5	Tell him how old you are, Tinker, because it's unbelievable.
1:28.9	59.
1:30.8	Yeah, actually my birthday is coming up March so and I'll be out of the 50s and I'll be in the 60s next so so by by number
1:41.0	yeah at the end of the 50s.
1:43.0	So, six years.
1:45.0	You think of it, isn't it?
1:46.0	Yeah, and it's kind of scary, you know, you know, because my son is 13 and I just want to be around as long as I can for him so I think
1:56.0	bicycling is the right sport to keep me to keep me in shape and this can
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