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#28 – 24-Hour Countdown: How to be ready for your race

Racing is a special opportunity. As an adult, you don’t get to feel this alive very often. Enjoy it, and avoid wasting it or turning it into a disaster you’ll regret. To do your best, remove impediments that CAN be removed quite easily. This stuff isn’t hard or expensive. It just requires a little planning ahead.

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Bonus – NedGravel with Gavin Coombs

Gavin and his team built one of the most challenging gravel races in the world. They built organized rides for all of us out of their regular fun rides, which have a ton of climbing and technical sections, and all at an elevation of 8,000-10,300 feet. The 3 courses pay homage to the hardened miners, dreamers and misfits who came before us as we ride through ghost towns, past mines and up mountains. The 3 courses vary in length and difficulty to accommodate a wide range of skills and desires for suffering.

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#27 – World’s First AI-Powered Online Bike Fit with Jesse Jarjour of MyVeloFit

Jesse and his team designed the MyVeloFit system to mirror the process you would experience during a professional bike fit. This starts with assessing your mobility, then analyzing your on-bike position, making adjustments to that position, assessing the changes, and repeating this process until you find a fit that works for you.

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#26 – Inspirational Athlete, ItCouldBeMe Founder, Triny Willerton

Triny Willerton is the founder of ItCouldBeMe, a non-profit on a mission to change the relationship between drivers and vulnerable users of the road by re-humanizing cyclists and creating a movement of mutual responsibility and respect to make roads safer together.

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#25 – LoveYourBrain for Hope & Resilience

LoveYourBrain is a non-profit that improves the quality of life of people affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI) and raises awareness about the importance of brain health.

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#22 – Back Health for Masters Cyclists

Even if you aren’t sitting on your bicycle for 20 or more hours a week, you ARE sitting in a chair and/or a bike for 50, 60 or more hours a week. After so many years of sitting, our bodies adapt to the sitting position, making us susceptible to injury and pain, and making us weaker on the bike and in life.

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#21 – Nutrition for Athletic Performance

Lauren is still riding hard despite a challenging back surgery in 2019. As a scientist, Lauren was able to investigate the available research to find the optimal diet for rapidly returning to an elite level after her back surgery. What she found was not only a diet that helped her recover, but also helped her to be stronger than ever!

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#20 – Making Cycling Better for Boulder

How C4C has accomplished so much in only 7 years is a fascinating story of camaraderie and generosity and determination to make cycling safer on the roads of Boulder county.

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#18 – The Art of Training with Power for Masters Cyclists

Training with power to be stronger on a bike, and leveraging camaraderie to sustain long-term passion and success in athletics.

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#4 – The carbohydrate conundrum

Listen to Dr Glen Winkel describe his journey to use a ketogenic diet to improve his health and his athletic performance.

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