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Lee and I have a special episode for you today much like we did for mountain bike national championships this week. We are interviewing a handful of athletes from the men's and women's side of the leadville 100 mountain bike race that's going on in leadville Colorado this weekend.

It's a very popular race for a lot of you who listen to this podcast and use trainer road and those that don't use train road but listen to the podcast and plenty others. It's a very popular race.

But what we can learn even if we aren't ever going to do leadville we can learn from these athletes about what they are doing to prepare leading into such a big day and execute on such a big day at high elevation of 10,000 feet average elevation big climbs and group tactics is very interesting. So we hope you enjoy this episode with these pro athletes. We asked them the same questions and then we play their answers back for you so it's a cool to be able to compare and contrast.

One quick note before we go in is that these athletes are traveling while we're interviewing them and showing up in forums or foreign circumstances where they don't know about their internet connection sound all that stuff. So some of the sound is pretty rough.

We did our best to be able to salvage it if you can't hear something and you have further questions on just go to the trainer road forum and we can try to fill in the gaps for you.

You can find an episode forum post specifically for this episode which is episode 320 so without further ado we hope you enjoyed this special episode and good luck to all of you who are racing ledville.

It's an exciting day and something you should absolutely be proud of.

My name is Alex Wilde I race for Orange Hill and specialized for mountain bikes mostly.

Hey, my name is Eddie Anderson I'm a rider for the Albus and Phoenix Pro cycling team and yeah, I'm super excited this year to be sort of introducing the team into the gravel side of the sport and next up ledville 100.

My name is Gatorina Nash I race for the Cliff Pro team. I have been racing for the Cliff Pro team for 20 years.

It's just pretty incredible. Anyway, I've been fortunate to kind of try a little bit of everything as far as cycling disciplines started as a mountain biker added cyclo cross,

dapped in some gravel and road racing. So a little bit of everything, a little bit of I mean lots of the short distance and now doing a little bit more of the endurance stuff getting a really, really good scope of what cycling is all about.

Keegan Swenson with the San Cruz bicycles. Hi, I am Laura King. I live in Richmond, Vermont. I am a race instructor and a marketing and sales consultant for various brands in the cycling world and I'm supported by brands like Ken and Dale, Sram zip zip the Lucho untapped loose packs and broke out.

I'm Pete Stetna. I am a gravel privateer that is a roadie background in trying to keep up on the mountain bike sometimes doing doing the long stuff, the FKT's and the ledville.

My name is Rose Grant. I am on the Juliana Sram Pro team, the first inaugural year for the team and this is my second time racing was ill.

I am on the first time in 2019 and also won the race. So I'm here to defend my title this year.

Hi, my name is Hannah Finchamp and I ride for the Orange Steel Opera team.

I ride for the Pro cycling, education personally, but for the cycle, I will be participating in the last racing.

My name is Sarah Sturm and I'm a bike racer for here we go, specialized Rafa, Wahoo, Sram, Hydroblask.

Have you done anything unique to prepare for ledville? Alex Wilde.

Nothing unique. We've had it on the schedule all year so I think we've had it kind of in the back of the mind.

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