MTB World Champion Kate Courtney – Ask a Cycling Coach 272
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
MTB World Champion Kate Courtney joins the podcast to give you the insights to what it takes to be a World Champion including how she builds resilience through mental training, how she is able to quickly recover from crashes, why she uses strength training to get faster and more in Episode 272 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Cape Epic deep dive into equipment, nutrition, logistics, etc.
- How Kate works on her technical skills to race pro MTB
- Why Kate uses strength training to get faster
- Kate’s nutrition for training, racing, recovery and more
- How Kate is able to quickly recover between races and training sessions
- Kate’s insights to build the strong mental fortitude of a world champion
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.9 | And I'm super excited because we have a really exciting guest with us here today |
| 0:09.3 | I'm gonna leave her for for last here because she's the the special guest with us first |
| 0:14.0 | We have canondale and trainer roads amber pierce. Hey everybody. We have our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:19.7 | Whoa, and then we have and and and Kate |
| 0:23.2 | I'm not sure if this is the proper way to present you so I apologize |
| 0:26.0 | It may be a bit long but Red Bull and Scott Srams Kate Courtney. How you doing? |
| 0:30.8 | Hey, thanks so much for having me on and doing well. How about you? |
| 0:33.9 | Doing awesome doing awesome. This is really cool to have you join us |
| 0:38.0 | Because you are you I mean you are a world champion |
| 0:40.9 | Which is super impressive |
| 0:42.9 | that that you were able to do that and for near and dear to our hearts here because we're American |
| 0:47.2 | It was so cool and so inspiring to see an American step up and |
| 0:52.5 | And win a world championship in the sport of mountain biking because it's just been a really long time for us to see anything like that |
| 0:59.0 | So I mean we've had Chloe Woodruff and she won |
| 1:02.6 | She won last year she won the nobumesto short track |
| 1:06.1 | You know, we've had Aaron Huck we've had really awesome, you know female pro mountain bikers |
| 1:10.4 | We've been really good at that, but to have you win a world championship, but just so cool |
| 1:14.1 | So I'm just really excited personally to have you on here. This is just really cool |
| 1:18.7 | And we even actually talked about this you lapsed me actually a many years ago |
| 1:22.7 | And I was like I bet that Kate Courtney's gonna do something really impressive one day |
| 1:26.3 | Sure enough |
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