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​​Trust the Process with Libbey Sheldon (Episode 40)

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Hit Play Not Pause

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This show is all about working with your changing physiology to optimize performance. This week’s guest, Masters 50-54 Cyclocross World Champion and Masters 50-54 XC and Masters 50-54 Marathon Mountain Bike National Champion, Libbey Sheldon embodies that ethos as well as anyone we know. After struggling with mountain bike stage racing in 2013, Libbey went back and worked on her limiters to maximize her performance and nearly won the women’s elite overall at the Trans-Sylvania Mountain Bike Epic stage race at age 55 this year. And she feels like she’s just getting started. We talk about maintaining strength, managing symptoms, and how to make gains everywhere you can. Libbey is an everyday athlete with a busy life. She’s a lawyer by profession and is a mom to four boys. Her positivity, determination, and work ethic are absolutely inspirational. You can follow her adventures at https://www.instagram.com/libbeysheldon/ **Support the Podcast** InsideTracker: 25% off at insidetracker.com/feistymenopause Nuun Hydration: 30% off at nuunlife.com with the code FeistyMenopause Velorosa Cycling: 15% off at https://velorosacycling.com with code HITPLAY

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0:00.0

You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

0:14.6

I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,

0:19.7

and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.

0:25.0

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

0:30.9

Hello, strong, feisty women.

0:34.1

Since starting this podcast last fall, I've gotten a lot of requests to include some, quote, unquote, everyday women, along with the pro athletes that I interview for this show.

0:44.9

And I totally get that.

0:47.1

Pros are exciting to watch and it's inspirational to see what they can achieve.

0:51.4

But by and large, their lives are not like our lives.

0:55.5

Though I will add that for those who don't know, women professional athletes often live lives

1:02.9

closer to ours than you would think. Women's sports are typically not well-funded,

1:08.0

and I know many brilliant PhD professional cyclists who hold down

1:14.1

jobs to be able to afford to be a professional cyclist. That might be another show for another

1:20.6

time, but there is definitely something special about seeing people who are living lives

1:26.5

closer to what you live, achieving extraordinary things.

1:30.3

So I'm pretty psyched about this week's guest, Libby Sheldon.

1:34.8

I met Libby in 2013 when she raced the Transylvania Mountain Bike epic in the elite women's

1:41.8

field for the first time.

1:44.5

It's a week-long mountain bike stage race in Central PA, and it is tough.

1:50.7

It's very rocky, very technical, often hot, usually wet, very slick.

1:57.7

I could go on and on.

1:58.8

It's not an easy week on the bike. And back then, Libby was pretty

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