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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Pain is Easy to Forget / LA RUTA

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Pain is easy to forget, says Louise Kobin, 4x La Ruta race winner. In this episode, our first in the La Ruta series, Louise and Spartan Up La Ruta series host Roy Wallach introduce you to the 3-day, cross-country mountain bike race known as La Ruta. In this episode, you’ll learn about Louise’s first La Ruta race, specifically...

-A deep dive of the 3-day race and the challenges presented throughout

-Lousie’s mindset after she fell behind by 20 minutes on day two, yet still managed to pull-out a victory

-How every rider falls off the bike a few times during the race, and how to persevere across the jungles of Costa Rica

-How to view fear in the physical sense (i.e., crashing down a hill) and emotionally (i.e., fear of getting tired)

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Producer: Ryan Warner

Host: Roy Wallack

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Transcript

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0:00.0

No pain is easy to forget. So I mean of course I was just you know I wrote as hard as I could and hiked as hard as I could because I was beat.

0:08.0

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0:14.2

from Spartan and True Form.

0:16.0

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0:18.5

improve your form, and reduce injury.

0:20.7

Save 10% with the code Spartan 10 at true form runner.com slash Spartan.

0:26.5

That's true form runner.com slash Spartan.

0:29.8

Hi my name is Roy Wallach. I'm the author of Bike for Life, How to Ride to 100. I've probably

0:39.4

written and written more about La Rututa than any other journalist.

0:44.0

I've done the race eight times, finished seven times,

0:48.0

and it is the most fun thing I've ever done in my life and I want to keep doing it forever.

0:57.7

On today's podcast, we're going to talk with one of the great champions of La Ruta, Louise Cobain, an American from Northern California

1:09.2

who has won the race four times. In the first podcast we'll talk about her races, what she likes about

1:19.2

it, her memories of the first one especially and some of the other crazy things she's done in the endurance realm.

1:27.0

And then in the second podcast we'll talk about her diet and her training which will be particularly appropriate because she is a physical therapist

1:35.6

so she has a lot to say on that issue.

1:39.4

Enjoy.

1:41.4

Welcome, Louise. how you doing?

1:43.0

Thank you, I'm good.

1:45.0

Roy, how are you?

1:46.0

Great.

1:47.0

So we're going to have a conversation.

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