Hey folks, Ronan here, your host again for another episode of the Performance Process Podcast. I'm going to keep this introduction as short as I can today because we've got an episode that I just

wanted to jump straight into it's worth it's with it's with Cady fitting

Cady has stage for metastatic breast cancer

a diagnosis that she got shortly after attempting the 24-hour elevation game world record last year.

I'm not going to give it too much away now because we just covered all in the podcast but long

straight she re-attempted that 24-hour elevation gain world record recently so

that's post-diagnosis and in the episode CEDY tells us of her journey from that first attempt to become a cancer patient in a foreign country in a matter of weeks

Right the way up to that second world record attempt, including everything you'd expect from an

episode of performance process such as all the optimization work that went into her training,

her bike, her other equipment, the planning around the getting optimal conditions, how the heck you go

by attaining a Guinness world record, but also just what it's like to be living and training and targeting world records with a stage

for cancer diagnosis. So as I said, I want to get straight into the podcast here so without further

ado, let's just do that.

Well city welcome to the podcast thank you you for your time today. I think we first met or spoke around about two years ago.

Andy Van Bergen connected us to discuss climbing and elevation records. And as it turned out we we both had a similar idea in mind back then that was a 24-hour elevation gain record that we're about to discuss today but that's kind of where our similarities end though, because while I love the idea and got sucked into all the planning and optimization around it, I never actually made any of it. But you on the other hand, well you made an attempt just over a year ago at this point at the elevation world record.

Ultimately that attempt didn't work out. You missed the record. There was a follow-up attempt,

one with a heck of a lot of optimization and training and attention to detail that went into that,

and that's exactly what we're going to deep dive into today. But before we do, I want to discuss

what happened six weeks after that initial record attempt. There's no easy way to say this you were diagnosed with stage for metastatic breast cancer and that's that you know it goes without saying that's a life-changing event and yeah we we need to discuss those elevation

record attempts but we really need to discuss that diagnosis first I think.

Yeah yeah absolutely because I think it informs so much of that second attempt and my motivations for that second attempt.

So, yeah, it was six weeks after my first attempt, which would have been April

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