Never Retire with Rebecca Rusch (Episode 2)

Hit Play Not Pause

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Traditionally athletes in their 40s (and certainly their 50s) are supposed to retire and find something else to do. Not seven-time world champion Rebecca Rusch, who didn’t even start racing professionally as a mountain biker until age 38, and proceeded to rack up national and world victories, win Leadville 100 four times, DK200 three times, and crushed the first 350-mile DKXL gravel race at age 50. Talking menopause for the first time, Rebecca Rusch reveals what her transition through “the change” has been like and what she prioritizes now to continue hitting personal bests and pursue her passion. She’s living proof that midlife can be a time when women can truly hit their stride. Follow Rebecca on Instagram @rebeccarusch and visit her website at https://rusch-wear.myshopify.com/collections/books-and-film to purchase her book Rusch To Glory, co-authored by Selene Yeager.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.5	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.1	you feel and perform your best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:24.9	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:33.6	Hey, Feisties, we've got a great show for you this week.
0:38.0	I am over the moon to bring you my conversation with the amazing Rebecca Rush.
0:43.8	Rebecca is a professional athlete and a woman of myriad accomplishments.
0:48.4	She's done everything from adventure racing to rock climbing to the arduous Iditarod bike race
0:53.4	in Alaska.
0:55.2	She's the best-selling author of her memoir, Rush to Glory, which I had the honor of helping
0:59.4	her write.
1:00.7	Blood Road, the documentary about her 1200 mile cycling journey along the Ho Chi Minh Trail,
1:06.1	to find where her father was shot down during the Vietnam War, won an Emmy.
1:10.6	She's a seven-time world champion, including winning 24-hour solo mountain bike world championships three times.
1:17.6	And she didn't even start racing mountain bikes professionally until she was 38 years old.
1:23.6	I met Rebecca when she came to Pennsylvania where I live to race the Transylvania Mountain Bike Epic Stage Race in 2010.
1:31.3	That wasn't her best race as you'll hear, and I actually ended up winning that one, but we became fast friends.
1:37.3	We'd go on to race the Brazil ride, which is a seven-day mountain bike stage race, which we won in 2013, and the Israel Epic, which
1:45.6	we got second overall in 2015. Both races were when we were in our mid-40s and heading
1:51.6	into perimenopausal years. Now, for the first time ever, Rebecca talks about her experience
1:57.5	with menopause, and she shares some training stats pre and post menopause from her coach Tim Kusick,
2:03.6	which honestly blew me away.
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