Opportunities of a Life Time with Sarah Max (Episode 175)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

At 49, this week’s guest Sarah Max is the oldest rider in the Life Time Grand Prix, the biggest, hardest gravel and mountain bike race series on the planet. That was something Sarah didn’t always want to talk about. She didn’t want to be defined by her age and didn’t always love the attention it attracted. But she’s realized that while her age isn’t her “brand,” it is part of her story–and an important part that inspires others and helps them see their own potential. And it most certainly doesn’t get in her way, as she embraces the challenges and opportunities of the professional cycling life while also working full time as the Managing Editor at Morgan Stanley Research and being the mom of twin college-age girls.

Sarah Max’s professional cycling highlights include a 3rd place finish at 2019 Unbound (formerly DK200), 2nd place in the notoriously competitive Belgian Waffle Ride in Southern California in 2019 and 6th in 2023, 4th at Steamboat Gravel in 2022, and 13th overall in the Life Time Grand Prix series last year. She started her editorial career covering investing and personal finance as a staff writer for Money Magazine and, later, as a senior writer for CNNMoney. With the mountains calling, Sarah moved to Bend, Oregon where she worked as a contributing editor to Barron's and contributing writer to publications including Entrepreneur, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal before taking her current job at Morgan Stanley.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform your best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.1	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.7	I hope you all are well.
0:35.8	So this week, we're bringing you a conversation with longtime endurance athlete and current pro-bike racer, Sarah Max.
0:44.2	Sarah is part of the Lifetime Grand Prix, which if you don't know what the Lifetime Grand Prix is,
0:49.7	it is the premier bike race series in North America and honestly, the biggest gravel mountain bike race series in the world.
0:58.6	And if you don't know what gravel racing is, it is as it sounds.
1:01.4	It's bike racing on gravel and or unpaved roads.
1:05.8	The Lifetime series consists of seven races and includes what is considered the Super Bowl of gravel
1:12.1	racing a super-duper hard 200-mile gravel race in Kansas called Unbound.
1:18.3	It also includes the legendary Ludville 100 mountain bike race, which takes place a lot of it
1:25.1	over 10,000 feet of altitude.
1:28.2	And it kicked off just this past weekend with the Sea Otter Classic Mountain Bike Race,
1:33.0	which is a 70-mile doozy.
1:35.5	I've raced the course, and it's hard.
1:38.3	This episode was recorded before the event out in Sea Otter,
1:42.1	so we don't know exactly how it went,
1:45.4	but we will put a link in the show notes. You can follow along with Sarah's progress, check it out. You'll note that she
1:50.9	does mention in the conversation that she was not feeling maybe 100% unformed for Sea Otter
1:56.0	coming into this weekend. So no pressure, Sarah, but we are 100% cheering for you. Sarah is also 49 years old,
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