Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that asks a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan Lee and we have a different episode for you all this week.

And if you're joining us now on YouTube for a premiere, thank you so much. Give it a thumbs up share it with your friends. We're going to talk a lot about training with limited schedules.

We're going to talk about getting pro fitness, but with being a time for athlete like much of us are that are listening here and we and MTB technique a ton of stuff.

And we have a special guest with us to talk about that Alex wild from orange seal racing orange seal and specialized not sure how to best present to you.

Orange deal with specializes good. Hey everybody. Thanks for having me guys.

A longtime podcast listener. Fan of the podcast and friend of the podcast and also a professional mountain biker has been selected for team USA to represent team USA at multiple events.

Pretty amazing stuff at world championship level events, which is pretty amazing. So and of course we have our CEO and eight Pearson sub name.

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So we're going to get straight into things first, but but just a couple of quick things. The successful athletes podcast if you're not listening to it yet, you totally need to listen to it.

We have episodes coming up every single week. Just search for successful athletes podcasts. It's a podcast where we very literally interview successful athletes to find out how to make you faster on the bike if you're listening to it.

So if not your Miss mountains and extra speed and some really cool and inspirational stories that you can tune into and check out there.

Secondly, also with outside workouts, this is going to be the last week that we're going to do our get faster outside give away. So if you are.

If you're doing out trainer road outside workouts, which everybody should totally be doing them. They're awesome. It's a really good way to compliment your training that you're doing and still execute on your plan and get faster at all times.

Use the hashtag get faster outside and share pictures or videos on Instagram of you doing that.

And then we pick one person a week and we give them a swag package to be able to do that. So with all of those things out of the way, Alex, let's get into your background.

So first things first. How did you get into cycling and mountain biking in general?

So I got into cycling when I was in high school before Nika was the NorCal league. So I live in NorCal. We had that at my high school and I was never any good at the traditional ball sports.

I'd probably tried out for everyone and failed. That's soccer basketball all that not sure if it's coordination, but never really worked out.

My mom was getting frustrated with me hanging out after school and wanting me to do something. So my brother was on the bike team and true little brother fashion, whatever he does. I want to do and he wanted nothing to do with me.

So does mountain biking and borrowed a bike and got to the first race.

I kind of from there just did it to kind of check the box of, you know, my mom wanted me to be active and do a sport and did the Nika thing through high school.

And I was laughed because when I got out of cat one 17 18, I thought the next natural progression was cat one 19 to 29.

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