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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

Today it's me, Jeff, and I'm here with Aaron, Leah, and Greg, and we're going to be talking

about mountain bike racing.

So I wanted to start off by asking you guys why you think people, or even you you personally enjoy mountain bike racing so much.

Why is racing such a big part of our sport? So the reason I race, I'm competitive. I don't like

people to be in front of me anywhere. That's on the trails, on the road, driving my car. I like to pass people. So that can be kind of a problem

because I'm a solid midpack racer, but I still like to get out there and mix it up. It's also

a really good way to challenge myself. It's not to say you have to race to challenge yourself.

You could do a really long, difficult ride, but it's not quite the same

thing. It's kind of hard to describe, but if you've ever lined up, you've pinned a number on,

you had the pre-race jitters at the line, and then you've pushed yourself beyond what you thought

you could do, it's a pretty cool feeling. So that's why I do it. Like Aaron, I am also competitive. I probably started racing

more on the running racing. I did a lot of marathoning and 5Ks and 10Ks and all kinds of distances.

So when I started mountain biking, I thought that, yeah, of course I'm going to race that too.

And so that's kind of how I got started, but not like Aaron.

He actually trains for races.

So I think that's why I don't do it anymore.

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