Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today Leah and I are going to be

talking with Ben about mountain bike endurance training. So we've talked about endurance training before.

You know, for some of this, this means gearing up for a six or 12 hour race or a multi-day stage

race or, you know, for some of us, it's just trying

to hang on to the back of the pack for a two-hour ride. But for everyone, endurance looks different.

But if you have a goal to enter that first race or just want to be able to put more miles in every

week, our guest today has some advice for how to make those goals and to be set up for

success. Today, Ben Turrets joins us. Now, I used to work with Ben years ago. We'd carpool to

performance bike in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Now Ben runs a coaching business and a sports

therapy practice called the Endurance Collective.

He also coaches the Duke University cycling team as well as a number of mountain bike athletes,

including Travis Liverman. Now, I had to look this guy up because I'll be honest,

I'm not all on top of the race scene, but Travis appears to be crushing it in the cyclocross world.

And with the help of Ben, he's preparing for the 2020 Olympics to compete in cross-country mountain biking.

So that's just super impressive to me.

I can't even imagine how much training it takes to get ready for the Olympics.

So I can't wait to hear what Ben has to say

on the topic of endurance training. So without further ado, let's welcome Ben to our show.

Hey, Ben, you there? Yeah, I'm here. Good to talk to you, Leah.

Awesome. Well, this is great. We haven't talked much over the years, but like I mentioned before, Ben has been in the

cycling industry a while. We used to work at performance bike together. And now to help

coach mountain bikers or athletes, surely you're a mountain biker yourself. So tell us a little

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