Welcome to a special episode of the Ask of Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. Today we are joined by Haley Smith.

She's from she's a professional mountain biker and gravel racer. Really an off-road cyclist. I guess is how we'd phrase it these days from Ontario Canada and Haley is

writing for the newly formed Trek Bikes Driftless team which also has like you know friend

of the podcast Russell Finsterwald on it really exciting to see a new team

formed there if you don't know who

Haley is I'm going to run through a quick intro and then we'll get things going

here but last year Haley placed third in the Lifetime Grand Prix. She is an

Olympian as she raced for Canada at the Tokyo Olympics and the

XCO discipline. She's also been to the Commonwealth Games and received a World Cup bronze

medal as well and represented Canada many different times

at international competitions which is a really exciting thing.

Haley is also a mental health advocate and has openly shared a journey about

managing orthorexia and anxiety is a professional

endurance athlete.

She's a kiniseology, which is, I probably said that wrong.

I apologize, Hunt, Haley, I can never say that one, right? And also you're currently pursuing your master's degree in sports psychology

at Queens University, focusing on healthy childhood development

within the sporting environment.

It's really cool to have you on. Yeah, right? I know.

That's great. Yeah, it's really cool to have you on, Haley. Thanks for coming on.

Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me. I was thrilled to be asked.

It's a I listened to this podcast a lot so it's exciting.

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