Today's podcast is brought to you by two sponsors, the first one, NTK, new to us, and they are also new to sponsoring podcast, Soul Star, a European cycling in-sole manufacturer that makes carbon insoles. And I got to tell you, I was pretty impressed by them. Well, first of all, welcome to the podcast world, Soul Star. We're glad to have you. We are very glad to have Soul Star, and they sent out a couple of

insoles for me to try out. Now, these are like cycling in Souls. And I've had insoles before, like the

$40 ones that you get from a cycling store, and it stabilizes your foot a little bit but these carbon fiber sole

star insoles are so stiff and they've got really tacky material on the top of the insol

so that your foot has nowhere to go but put power into the petals because your foot isn't

slipping around in the shoe and because the

shoe is a lot stiffer you put more power in so when Solstar sent out this trial pair for me they were like

give it three weeks it's going to take your body to adjust a little bit of time because you got to get

used to not having that flexion that you had in your foot before, but after that,

you might sense something.

Went out for a ride.

And even though I was like three, four weeks into my off season during this ride, I was able

to put out the most amount of power into the pedals than I have all year.

Wow.

By like 10%.

I didn't actually know this.

Yeah.

And it happened.

And I emailed SoulStar.

I was like, is that what this whole thing is about?

And she said, yeah, we didn't want to tell you so that you would expect it.

But that's what these insoles are about.

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