Leadville 100 with Keegan Swenson and Sofía Gomez Villafañe – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 435
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
(0:00) Welcome!
(0:34) Sofia’s interview
(22:46) Tobin’s interview
(28:36) Keegan’s interview
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- Sofia’s Instagram
- Sofia’s Strava
- Sofia’s Leadville file
- Tobin’s Instagram
- Keegan’s Instagram
- Keegan’s Leadville File
- Santa Cruz ht.SQD’s Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer |
| 0:03.5 | Rotom coach Jonathan Lee and today you're going to hear from two different interviews |
| 0:07.2 | with the athletes to just one the leadville 100 first from Sophia Gomez Vigiafania from |
| 0:11.9 | specialized and then second from Keegan Swenson and Tobin Orton Blod from the Santa Cruz |
| 0:16.4 | hit squad. |
| 0:17.4 | We're going to go into how they prepared and how they executed to deliver such insane |
| 0:22.0 | performances a record beating performance for a Keegan and stay tuned for some interesting |
| 0:26.4 | information about how it might be a record beating performance from Sophia. |
| 0:30.6 | Anyways, stay tuned for that, enjoy this, we'll talk to you at the end. |
| 0:34.4 | Sophia it's good to have you back on the podcast, we're going to talk about your leadville |
| 0:37.5 | performance. |
| 0:38.5 | I want to go over the course first though, if you don't mind, to give people context. |
| 0:42.8 | So 105.1 miles, I think for everybody that rode the course like every little bit matters, |
| 0:48.3 | if you're told it's 100 miles, those last five miles hurt quite a lot. |
| 0:52.6 | About 12,000 feet of climbing, 75% dirt, 22% road, 3% single track. |
| 0:58.4 | The start time was 7 a.m. and the weather that you all had, it's kind of tricky because |
| 1:03.4 | up there the weather change is so fast, right? |
| 1:05.4 | Sophia I'm sure you experienced a whole lot of seasons all in one day. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, and we actually started at 6.30, so that half hour does count. |
| 1:12.7 | Even earlier. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | Early. |
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