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I went to the games with a suitcase and then just didn't go back. It was funny. I remember breaking the world record and I was just disappointed. Everyone was going crazy, like new world record and I was like, man. Eventually our team manager Martin at the time was just like, just go. And I was just like, what is going on? And just got pushed up onto the track and I'm like, instantly locked in. Like it was distracting, but I was like, I have a job to do here. It was honestly the craziest thing I've ever witnessed. Shammai Emma. Shemai Manon. And welcome back to what's Skirin, fam, brought to you by Ruby, hosted by Pinarello. And today we've got another guest on, on Emma. I think you should introduce this guest. It says, I meant to say he's a very special guest. And I guess he is in some ways. But yeah, my partner, Matty, is going to be on the podcast today, talking all things, world record and how he got into the sport. So welcome. Shammai. Hello.

Shammai. Shammai. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. So good to have you. I feel like

we've spoken about you on the podcast already quite a lot, but it's all been from Emma's point of view.

So it'll be really good to hear things. Your side of the story. And I guess probably a good place

to start is the recent world record that you

broke twice. When did you decide that you were going to go for this world record?

Probably the most like official decision was four months before I actually did it. That's sort of

the amount of time you have to give the UCI for notifying you want to do a world record.

But I've wanted to do this for years, years and years.

Like the closer, probably Harry and me are probably the only two riders,

but the closer we got to going sort of low nine,

the more I sort of realized that we could actually go under.

Yeah.

And being the first to break a barrier obviously stays forever. So I wanted to be the first one. Get in there before, Harry. Yeah. So yeah, that's why I did it. And you said you've wanted to do it for years. Did you ever think that it would be possible one day? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you've got to have that belief in yourself that it is going to be possible. I mean, I was obviously capable of riding 9.0 at the Paris Olympics at sea level. So going to

altitude would give me that extra bit of boost. So yeah, coming into the actual record,

I was very confident. A couple years ago, less so. But obviously, the stronger and faster I got in the last couple years, the more confident I got. And this was kind of, I guess, the perfect time to do it because you, there hasn't been like that much racing, you could like fully focus on it. What did your training look like leading up? Because, you know, it's yeah, under nine seconds. It's so short. What kind of training were you doing to prepare for it? Earlier in the year, after sort of the Christmas period, it was quite general.

Like coming into the World Cup at the start of the year, we're in sort of a general prep sort of phase.

And then the closer I got to the record, the more and more specific it got.

It got to a point where I basically took out like a start session each week, which normally

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