Welcome to a special episode of the Ascicycling Coach podcast presented by

Trana Road. I'm with Kate McLaughlin. Kate just finished 10th at Leadville, and

you may remember Kate's name because we've recorded a podcast previously with

Kate, the successful athletes podcast. That was when you had an injury, you

broke your, you messed up, you broke your thumb or tore ligaments in your thumb.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there we go. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so both. And then you

had to work your way back to getting fit, and you were like, I'm gonna try out

this Trana Road thing. And next thing you know, you won the Silver Rush 50, which

is like the, it's like the 50 mile version of Leadville that happens beforehand.

So we did a podcast on that. I'll link to that episode down below. I'm

reaching out to you because you just finished 10th at Leadville. And I'm

saying 10th, like 10th out of all the women 10th, which is so impressive. An

incredible result. Just a few weeks ago, you won Tahoe Trail 100 as well. You've

had an awesome season. So I wanted to connect with you, see how you're training,

like what you've done to train for this event for Leadville in particular. And

then we'll talk about what you learned executing today at Leadville because

this isn't your first time doing it. So maybe some things like, here's what I

did better this time compared to last time. And then maybe that can help some

people. So yeah, quick mini episode. But I guess, how did you prepare for Leadville

to go 10th to finish so darn well? Yeah, so quick back story. I used Trana Road for the first

time. Like you said, preparing for Silver Rush. It was completely indoors. And it

went really well. And that was my first real training for race. And then I did

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