Leadville Trail 100 Winners Hannah Otto and Keegan Swenson - Ask a Cycling Coach 377
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
With Coach Jonathan out on paternity leave, TrainerRoad CEO Nate Pearson hosts the podcast this week to interview two of the biggest names in gravel: 2022 Leadville Trail 100 winner Hannah Otto and 2022 Leadville Trail 100 and SBT GRVL winner Keegan Swenson. We learn about everything that went into their incredible wins—from training, equipment, and race day preparation, to tactics, pack dynamics, and more!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(01:12) Keegan's Leadville Win
(36:38) Hannah Leadville Win
(01:19:09) Keegan SBT Gravel
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone, I'm so excited about this podcast because I get two |
| 0:03.6 | leadville winners at once. |
| 0:05.5 | Hannah Otto, formerly Hannah Finchamp of Pivot Cycles and DT Swiss. |
| 0:09.2 | Hi Hannah. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:11.2 | And she is, this is the same, her name changed, |
| 0:13.5 | but this is the same host that's been here for a while. |
| 0:15.3 | So having a host win leadville is so freaking cool. |
| 0:19.5 | And then we have multi-time leadville winner, |
| 0:21.8 | Keegan Swinson of Santa Cruz Bikes, |
| 0:23.2 | who's been on the podcast many, many times. |
| 0:24.8 | You're almost a host, Keegan. |
| 0:26.6 | Getting there, hey guys. |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.4 | Hi. |
| 0:28.9 | And then Keegan also decided to do another race the next day |
| 0:32.0 | seeing Bo Crabble and just win that race too |
| 0:35.4 | because leadville alone was not enough. |
| 0:37.4 | And we were going to talk about maybe just my feelings. |
| 0:41.9 | I would hate it if you did leadville. |
| 0:44.2 | And then you beat me in the next race. |
| 0:46.0 | Like when I was fresh, that would be, |
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