Magnus Manson – The Brilliance of Resilience
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by Canadian mountain bike rider, Magnus Manson. Magnus has had an incredible riding career so far, taking a silver medal at Junior World Champs in Val di Sole, the Canadian national title in 2018 and a top 20 in elite World Champs in Lenzerheide. The last few years have been rough for Magnus. He suffered a huge injury in 2020 which took a huge amount of drive and focus to recover from. Not long after getting back on the bike, Magnus was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. Magnus recently found out that he was in remission and we sat down to hear his incredible story. I was blown away by Magnus’ resilience and determination and I hope everyone finds some inspiration in this episode. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Magnus Manson.
You can follow Magnus on Instagram @magnusmanson.
The book Magnus mentioned is ‘Can’t Hurt Me’ by David Goggins which you can find here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and you're listening to the downtime podcast where we delve deep into the gravity base side of mountain biking. |
| 0:10.2 | First up, I want to thank our supporting partner, We Are One Composites and this is your last chance to take advantage of this month's amazing offer. |
| 0:17.5 | We Are One has a rapidly growing group of dedicated customers and fans for good reason. Believe me, |
| 0:22.7 | once you've experienced how good these wheels are and how supportive WeR1 are, you'll be joining |
| 0:27.1 | that club too. The wheels not only look stunning, but have been designed to be robust, reliable and |
| 0:32.1 | to have a ride quality that balances stiffness and compliance, meaning you get a wheel set that |
| 0:36.7 | sticks to lines but isn't so |
| 0:38.1 | stiff that it pings you off every little obstacle in the trail. I'm running a faction up front and a |
| 0:42.7 | union at the back and I haven't even needed to show them a spoke key in the time that I've had them. |
| 0:47.0 | They're still perfectly tight and true. WeR1 are offering downtime listeners a very generous 10% |
| 0:52.4 | off any revolution wheel set, including |
| 0:54.5 | rim only for the month of September. All you need to do is to head to we are one composites.com |
| 0:59.2 | and use the code downtime wheeling 22 at the checkout. That's downtime with a capital D, |
| 1:04.8 | no space, followed by the word wheeling, W-H-E-E-L-I-N-G, no space then the number 22, over at We are 1conversets.com. Head to their website now and check out their entire range of awesome wheels. While you're here, don't forget to subscribe or follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. There's buttons to help you get that done over at downtimepodcast.com for slash subscribe. Merch is available if you want to support the show. |
| 1:28.8 | That's over at downtimepodcast.com for slash shop. |
| 1:32.2 | Head over to downtimepodcast.com for slash EP and check out our beautiful print project |
| 1:36.8 | downtime EP that's made in collaboration with the awesome team over at Miss Spent Summers. |
| 1:41.6 | It's a biannual piece of mountain bike history that takes the guests |
| 1:44.5 | and the topics from the podcast, expands on them and brings them into a printed format, |
| 1:49.0 | featuring words and imagery from Mountain Biking's most talented creators. You can get single |
| 1:54.0 | copies of back issues or you can save yourself some money by treating yourselves to an annual |
| 1:57.9 | subscription over at downtimepodcast.com, force dash, EP. |
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