The Final Round – Downtime Goes Downhill (Racing) – Episode 7

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Downtime MTB

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Hobbies, Leisure, Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Downtime Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that’s taking you with us as we have a go at racing downhill at both a regional and national level as well as chatting to some of the world’s best to help us and you ride bikes down hills faster.

Downtime Goes Downhill wouldn’t be happening without the support of some incredible brands. So a massive thanks to Canyon bikes, Fox suspension, Wahoo Fitness, Fox clothing and protection, Maxxis tyres, Magura brakes and We Are One Composites wheels.

This is episode seven, which covers our last race of the season at the final round of the Pearce series in Hopton. Hear about our less than great preparation, find out why I’ve not been riding bikes very much lately and hear about the progress that Ben and Jonny have made over the season. So sit back, hit play and listen to episode seven of Downtime Goes Downhill with me, Ben and Jonny.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Downtown Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that's taking you with us as we have a go at racing downhill at both a regional and national level,
0:11.2	as well as chatting to some of the world's best to help us and you ride bikes downhills faster.
0:15.9	I'm your host, Chris Hall, and I'll be joined by my good friends, Jonathan Matthews and Ben Thompson,
0:20.7	three different riders with different abilities, strengths, weaknesses, goals and fears.
0:25.1	We'll share our preparation, training, set up, along with our different approaches to getting faster and our progress.
0:30.7	You'll hear all about our experiences at the race is good and as you'll hear in this episode in particular, bad.
0:36.9	We'll also be bringing in some of the best in the world to help us improve,
0:39.8	so there's going to be heaps to learn too.
0:41.9	Downtime goes downhill wouldn't be happening without the support of some incredible brands.
0:46.0	So a massive thanks to Canyon Bikes, Fox suspension, Wahu fitness, fox clothing and protection,
0:51.9	Max's tyres, Megura brakes and We Are One Composits Wheels.
0:55.7	This is episode seven, which covers our last race of the season at the final round of the Pierce series in Hopton.
1:01.0	Hear about our less than amazing preparation, find out why I've not been riding bikes very much lately,
1:05.9	and hear about the progress that Ben and Johnny have made over the season.
1:09.5	So without further ado, here's a downtime goes downhill, episode seven with me, Ben and Johnny have made over the season. So without further ado, here's a
1:11.2	downtime goes downhill episode seven with me, Ben and Johnny. All right, boys, we are sitting a
1:21.4	couple of weeks off the back of our last race of the season, the Pierce round, the final round
1:26.3	of the Pierce series at Hopton,
1:34.0	which was an interesting weekend for all involved. We're going to catch up on what we did kind of coming into that race and the preparation side of things, talk about the race itself,
1:38.8	and then we'll probably hop back on the microphone in a couple of weeks' time and just do a bit
1:42.8	of a sort of season wrap
1:44.5	up and talk about our thoughts from the season, maybe what we might want to do from here
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