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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Mountain Bike Racing Tips

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Gerow, Matt, and Jeff share mountain bike race tips learned over many seasons of racing and watching the pros. We touch on training and preparation before the event, and offer advice for setting up your bike for the big day. Listen to avoid some of the biggest mistakes we’ve seen racers make, and also some of the smartest things we’ve observed.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.0

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0:20.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.1

My name is Jeff, and today Matt and Jereau and I are going to be talking about mountain bike racing,

0:28.4

and we're going to be sharing basically tips for racing, so hopefully this will be helpful to people,

0:33.4

whether you're considering your first race or you're signing up for your 100th.

0:37.9

Matt and Jereau, what have you guys observed about winning racers that sets them apart from everybody else?

0:44.0

Like the pros, but even the guys who are winning their local race series, what makes them different?

0:50.0

That's a good question.

0:50.8

I would say one thing I've noticed across the board is just that they

0:55.0

are willing to dedicate more of their lives to racing into competition.

1:00.4

Like they're going out doing intervals. Maybe they have a coach, power meter,

1:04.4

it depends on the kind of racing they're doing, but they're probably not going out on

1:09.0

Friday and Saturday night. They're more so like getting rest and getting ready for training or racing.

1:14.9

So yeah.

1:15.3

It's a lot of dedication are involved.

1:17.1

That's interesting.

1:17.8

Yeah, it's more of the competition.

1:19.7

I mean, the competition that you see is what happens on race day.

1:22.7

But really what you're competing against is like who has the most time to dedicate to their training and to

1:28.6

be the most serious about it in some ways i guess you're saying yeah absolutely and then even

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