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Independence Day and Pikes Peak
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#498 Independence Day and Pikes Peak
Welcome
Welcome to Episode #498 of the 303 Endurance Podcast. We're your hosts Coaches Rich Soares and April Spilde. Thanks for joining us for another week of news, coaching tips and discussion.
Rich, my quads, hip flexors, and hammies are sore and guess who I have you to thank for that! That was one helluva ride up Pikes Peak today, and a lifetime climbing achievement for me! I remember vividly a couple of times thinking “this is freaking awesome,” and “damn, this is AWFUL!” Talk about an insane roller coaster of emotions. I ran the gamut. What I truly loved and appreciated about it is how patient you were and how you went at my pace. I would not have gotten as far as we did without you.
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In Today's Show
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Announcements and News
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Ask A Coach: How to train for Pikes Peak
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Get Gritty Tip: My 2025 Misogi!
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TriDot Workout of the Week: Stamina Ride
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Fun Segment: Pikes Peak – Fact or Fiction?
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Independence Day Pikes Peak Ride Jul 4, 2025
Join us for an invigorating bike ride from Santa’s Workshop at 7700 feet to the top of Pikes Peak at 14,111. 6800 feet of climbing in 18 miles.
Garmin Course - https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/369763602
https://www.facebook.com/share/197vnpxkbc/
2025 - TBD
2024 -36.70 mi Distance, 4:02:57 Time, 9.1 mph Avg Speed, 6,978 ft Total Ascent, 173 W Avg Power
2023 -36.49 mi Distance, 4:12:52, Time 8.7 mph Avg Speed, 6,266 ft Total Ascent, 139 W Avg Power
*2022 -27.44 mi Distance, 3:00:53, Time, 9.1 mph, Avg Speed, 4,783 ft, Total Ascent, 137 W Avg Power
2021 -36.73 mi Distance, 4:00:08 Time, 9.2 mph Avg Speed, 6,567 ft Total Ascent
2020 -36.69 mi Distance, 3:38:56 Time, 10.1 mph Avg Speed, 6,635 ft Total Ascent
*2019 - No Ride
2018 - 36.91 mi Distance, 3:48:07 Time, 9.7 mph Avg Speed, 6,678 ft Total Ascent
2017 - 37.0
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
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Welcome everybody to your 303 Endurance Podcast.
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Aloha everybody, get ready for your 303 Endurance Podcast.
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Woo!
Pikes Peak Climb Experiences
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Happy Independence Day, folks, and welcome to episode 498 of the 303 Endurance Podcast.
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We're your hosts, coaches Rich Swartz and April Spilde.
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Thanks for joining us for another week of news, coaching tips, and discussion.
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And what a day it has been.
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Coach April and I kicked off the morning around 7 a.m.
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to do Pike's Peak and...
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I can't wait to hear April's reaction.
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It's a fun day, beautiful weather.
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Our legs are pretty torn up.
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April, how are you doing?
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Rich, my quads, hip flexors, my hamstrings are sore and I have you to thank for that.
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That was one hell of a ride up Pikes Peak today.
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And that was honestly a lifetime climbing achievement for me.
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So I just got to put that out there.
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It was pretty big.
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I remember vividly.
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a couple of times thinking, this is freaking awesome.
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I even put an explicit explicative in there.
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And then I had a couple of moments where I was like, damn, this is awful.
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So it was a roller coaster.
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Yeah, I think I heard you say this is awful a couple of times.
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It was funny.
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So I ran the gamut of emotions.
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What I truly love, though, and appreciated about this was I got to say thank you for your patience.
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And I really appreciate how you went at my pace.
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And I really wouldn't have gotten as far as I did without you.
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So I just got to say thank you for that.
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Yeah, you kind of need every little bit of encouragement that you can get.
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Yeah, going up that sucker.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Before we get done here, maybe when I'll take advantage of a time when I'm not talking to try to look up the stats, but yeah, bike's peak ranks up there is one of the toughest bike rides in the, in the world.
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So yeah.
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No, really proud of you, April.
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I am ashamed of myself for not making sure you were better prepared.
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We were going to talk about, if you're trying to prepare for this, we'll, we're going to be actually putting together a loop of a training plan, maybe a downloadable
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on this in the future.
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But anyway, we got a lot.
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That's a little teaser for this.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We got a
Endurance Nutrition and Sponsorships
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lot.
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There's a lot coming up in the show.
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And, but before we do that, let's give a shout out to our show sponsor, Generation UCAN.
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UCAN created Live Steady as an alternative to sugar-based nutrition products.
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April, you saw me.
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I had two bottles on my bike today, right?
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I did.
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Yeah.
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Nice and chilled.
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Yeah.
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I froze one last night and I have one that was icy this morning.
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Liv said he was purposely designed to work with your body, delivering long-lasting energy you could feel, whether it's UCAN energy powders, bars, or gels.
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Live Steady's unique time release profile allows your body to access energy consistently throughout the day, all the way up Pike's Peak, unlocking your natural ability to finish stronger and recover more quickly.
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Yes, in today's show, we've got all things Pikes Peak.
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We have our announcements.
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We do have a couple of news items as well.
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Excited to share.
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Our Ask a Coach is going to be all about how to train for this beast that you and I took on this morning so that you, the listener, if you want to take on this challenge, you're ready to go.
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I'm going to share with you my Get Gritty tip, which is how I turned this into my 2025 Misogi.
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And then Rich is going to bring you our tryout workout of the week, which is a stamina ride.
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We felt that was very fitting for this.
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And then our fun segment is all kinds of Pikes Peak trivia, fact or fiction, Rich.
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I love that.
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Oh my gosh.
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I hope I do well.
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I've done this a few times.
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I hope so too.
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If you're Coloradan, as you claim to be, you better do well.
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As I claim to be.
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Oh my God.
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Challenging my Coloradan citizenship.
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No, we're going to have a blast.
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And hey, let's get into some announcements.
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First, I want to give a shout out to our sponsor of our announcement section, which is Vespa Power.
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It's so funny.
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We are at the point now, April, where we will not start something tough without Vespa.
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Heck no!
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But you have got to remember to bring it.
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Yeah.
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Mistake number one, folks.
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There it is.
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Yes.
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I forgot my Vespa in my house.
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Thankfully, Rich is always prepared.
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I brought double.
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Hey, I was a Boy Scout.
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Anyway, yeah, no, it was all good.
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But no, it's so funny because when I took that second Vespa, I really sharpened up.
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Me too.
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I could just feel the shit.
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It got me down for sure.
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Yeah.
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And that mental acuity, you really need that, especially descending, but even climbing too, because there's like little rocks in the way.
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Oh, Rich, I almost went off the side a couple of times in the dugout area.
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I'm trying to think of what that's called, but I really think having the ability to just be able to maneuver fast was pertinent to my safety.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So yeah, it's basically, it's a metabolism catalyst that basically helps you shift your body into natural fat burning mode and helps you tap into nice, steady, clean energy so you can stay strong, focused, and in the zone longer.
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It's not fuel, just a metabolic catalyst.
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And we've got a link here in the show notes.
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You have a one-time discount code 303ENDURANCE20.
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There's a couple of different products out there.
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Just the normal pouches.
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I think, April, you like the, which is the CV25, and I think you like the Junior.
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Yeah, I enjoy both, but I find that the Junior is a little bit funner to take because it's got that hit of orange juice.
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Yeah, right.
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It does taste like orange juice a little bit.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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All right.
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Of course, today we did our Pikes Peak ride and it was a blast.
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April, I'm really proud of you.
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I was looking at our stats from today and 23 total miles.
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It's so funny.
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This doesn't sound, you know, you say 23 miles.
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Well, why did that take you two hours and 31 minutes with an average speed of 9.2 miles?
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April, you want to tell the listeners something?
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It's because it was 14,000 feet.
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We climbed 11,000 feet.
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That is the highest I've ever been.
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Well, we started from 7,000, 7,400 feet, right?
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And we got to 11,000.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for clarifying.
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It was every bit of that was one stroke at a time.
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One pedal stroke at a time.
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Pray to God you don't fall over.
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So yeah, that's why it was that long.
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It took that long.
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Well, you know, you come through the gate and the first mile or so, maybe two miles is basically 10% grade.
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There's just like no... Yeah, it starts out.
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And then it flattens out a little bit.
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You get to about 6% grade for a bit and you're bouncing around between six and eight and then you get to Crystal Lake.
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And then from Crystal Lake up to, you know, at first...
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The first section out of Crystal Lake is a little deceiving because you get a little bit of six and eight and six and eight and six.
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And then it goes eight to 11 to eight to 11.
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You know, it's just like you're now in a pretty painful zone for a while.
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And it's just unrelenting, right?
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Yes.
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there's there's no like breaks really it's just steady steady climbing that one that one turn you stopped and i'm like well look up because that next what do you do what yeah what do you do when someone says that you look up my heart anyway uh no i i i um
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Real great effort today.
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And I'm really proud of you for, for really pushing and going really deep.
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I'm sure you're going to be sore.
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Get, make sure you take care of your, your legs, do some self massage and some foam rolling and maybe an Epsom salt bath.
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Yes.
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Coming up in a little bit here, we're going to talk about a tip for preparing and now we're going to put that together.
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All right.
Cycling and Triathlon Insights
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Let's go into Tour de France is kicking off tomorrow.
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Here's what I'll say.
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I've always watched it.
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I usually get to try to get the highlights at least.
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I don't go deep dive, but I always play.
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The tour website has an app and the app has a fantasy league.
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You get to pick your players, you get a budget, you get to pick your players.
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I just realized that
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just before we started recording, three of my team are out.
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They are not starting.
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So I need to hustle tonight and repick three.
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I can replace three team members.
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This is a problem.
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Anyway.
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Yeah.
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So I'm excited.
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Here we go.
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Tour de France.
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We're not going to really cover this a lot, but I mean, I just, it's an exciting vibe and I like talking about it.
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Yeah.
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I think it's one of the funnest parts of July.
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Like the whole month is just this amazing electricity around the tour.
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We definitely want to wish everyone a happy Tour de France month.
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And I can tell you, Rich, ever since the time of Lance Armstrong, and I know that's like super taboo, but I will say that's what brought me into cycling was watching Lance Armstrong on the bike and just rooting for America.
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It's been a summer favorite.
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And whenever I hear Phil Liggett and Bob Roll,
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doing their announcing, I am so amped.
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Like I just look forward to their voices are like family at this point.
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And I think three weeks of watching racing and the coverage, like you said, I love the highlights too.
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It's really fun to put on during my morning workouts.
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I just enjoy that whole vibe.
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It's a lot of fun.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, the, the current day, uh, hometown favorite for me is Sepkus.
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Uh, of course he's, uh, Junction and he's an animal and he's just really likable.
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And actually, uh, Bill had the, uh, had the good fortune of being at a, his like,
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coming home parade, if you will, a couple of years ago, um, after he had done so well, uh, actually, uh, it was the, um, Vuelta that he had won.
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Oh, wow.
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So it was his coming home parade for winning the Vuelta.
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That's amazing.
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So yeah.
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Anyway.
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Yeah.
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Happy.
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I like that.
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Happy Tour de France month.
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And I too just love to tune in every day and follow it.
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So yeah, we'll have to cover this a little bit, I guess.
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Favorite stages and all the good stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yeah.
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The daily highlights.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Ironman new world championship qualifying system.
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Not going to go into a whole lot of detail here either.
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However, Ironman has announced a new performance-based age group qualifying system.
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And beginning with 2026 qualifying cycle, based on a bunch of research and testing and feedback, the new qualifying system is designed to reward athletes based entirely on how competitive they are relative to their age group and gender.
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So each qualifying event, athletes are going to be ranked based on their performance relative to a global age group standard.
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The athletes who perform the best on race day compared to this age group standard, irrespective of age or gender will rank the highest and earn qualifying slots.
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And like Rich said, we're not going to go too much further into it, but if you want to learn more, just go to ironman.com.
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If you go to their news section, it'll be, it'll come right up.
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So check that out.
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Yeah.
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And maybe we'll talk about it in the future.
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
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I don't want to make any snap comments.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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So, all right.
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I want to give a huge shout out here to USA Triathlon and TriDot who have partnered up
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Coaches who coach at a TriDot pool school, actually, if you go to a TriDot, if you go, yeah, if you are a coach and you go to a TriDot pool school or you coach on deck, you can earn USAT continuing education units toward your recertification.
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Yeah, that's a pretty cool deal.
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Guess what, April?
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We're already working toward, we've already done one pool school this year.
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We're going to do another pool school this year.
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And we're earning CEUs along the way.
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Yes, I think this is going to come in handy for me because I'm working on my USAT level one.
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So next year.
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And I'm working toward my level two.
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So whoop whoop.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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Yeah, I think it's, you know, honestly, I think it's good to have the different certifications.
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I think it's really kind of good to see how things compare and contrast.
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And I think it just makes Iron Man U, USAT, you know, these are both great certifications.
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Absolutely.
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And man, that Iron Man U is no joke.
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You really had to work for that sucker.
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Yes.
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That is truth.
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Anyway.
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Yeah.
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And cool.
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I just want to give a shout out to Jeff Boo or two for coming on the pod last week.
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And it's going to be great to have him on deck as well.
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This pool school that we are hosting here in Colorado Springs, July 26th and 27th is going to be fire.
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We have a great venue.
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It's at the air force Academy and you have literally the CEO of Tridot on deck.
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You can't ask for better.
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So there are definitely opportunities still to sign up if you're interested, but those opportunities are going to run out fast because we're getting close now.
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So we also have a link in the show notes to register if this is something you want to actually improve your swim technique.
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This is a great venue to do it with great coaches.
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Yeah, totally.
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And yeah, Jeff, Jeff is the chief designer of the program.
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I mean, he is the master coach of the, the functional freestyle method that we teach.
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So yeah, it's a, it's an honor to have him, him, him there and to be learning, learning right from him.
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Awesome.
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Tell you what?
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Yeah, that's what got me in Boulder.
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I was just so impressed.
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And then having him on the podcast, walking us through our own swim workout.
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Right.
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It was awesome.
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All right.
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Awesome.
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We're going to geek out.
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Speaking of geeking out, I want to geek out with you a little bit, April, here on what we did today.
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And I want to reframe what we did today in our context as coaches here.
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Coach and athlete.
Lessons Learned from Pikes Peak
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Coach and athlete, you bet.
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And you were preparing for this.
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And I have a pretty good understanding of what needs to happen on today.
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I've been doing this long enough that I have lost sight of how big of a task this is, you know, and putting into context your background as an athlete, we could have restructured this program to give you more time training on the hills.
00:17:01
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Because, I mean, if you go and look at your average power today,
00:17:05
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Well, you know, we haven't really dissected this yet, but average power on a flat and average power like these hills, especially when your cadence is so much slower.
00:17:18
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It's really hard, isn't it?
00:17:20
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I mean, talk about that.
00:17:21
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I mean, yeah, I felt like I was riding through mud the entire time.
00:17:26
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And I'm a pretty good climber on a mountain bike, but on a road bike, I was shocked.
00:17:33
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Yeah.
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I mean, it was, it felt like I had, um, I was climbing with a weight behind me.
00:17:40
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You're always checking.
00:17:41
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Are my brakes rubbing?
00:17:42
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Right.
00:17:44
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Uh, am I in my lowest gear?
00:17:45
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Am I really in my lowest gear?
00:17:46
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This can't possibly be my lowest gear, right?
00:17:48
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How many times did that go through your head?
00:17:50
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So, you know, one of the things in preparing for something like this is to actually start to think about what are the
00:17:56
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gear inches that you need for a climb like this to keep the cadence that you need to stay comfortable.
00:18:03
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And that might require a cassette change.
00:18:07
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So I think that is one thing that we will evaluate going forward to see if we can get you in a better cassette to do this in the future.
00:18:14
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The other thing is just
00:18:16
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I mean, all things being equal, I mean, climbing is just different.
00:18:21
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You know, you're going slower.
00:18:24
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That kind of gets in your head.
00:18:25
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Talk about maybe some of the, talk about some of the positive things maybe that you were thinking as you were doing this climb today.
00:18:34
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Okay, well, we had a really cool game where Rich and I were kind of interlaying questions back and forth, which helped take my mind off of some of the things that were happening.
00:18:46
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And I kept, I told him that anytime I'm feeling pain, I'm going to look down at these wildflowers because there were some of the prettiest wildflowers that were in bloom on...
00:18:58
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On the route.
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And I felt like that instantly gave me a positive boost.
00:19:03
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I was also doing mantras.
00:19:05
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I was, you know, one stroke at a time.
00:19:07
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I was thinking you can do this just over this hill, things like that, where it was, you
00:19:15
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encouraging to me.
00:19:16
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And then Rich has my back.
00:19:21
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That's I was thinking that as well as like, I know that Rich is okay if we need to stop.
00:19:26
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And we found little cutouts where it was easier to just stop and catch my breath.
00:19:31
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And I felt so much better after we would take those, you know, two, three, four minute cutout pauses and
00:19:39
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for me to regain my composure and my breath.
00:19:43
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So those are some of the things I was thinking about when it was getting really hard.
00:19:47
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Yeah.
00:19:47
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Okay.
00:19:48
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Well, that's good.
00:19:49
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I mean, I look, I'm glad that you, so you had a good, you have a lot of good skills for keeping yourself in the game there, you know, which is, which good luck.
00:19:56
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You know, a lot of people don't have those mantras or those interventions to catch those negative thoughts that can creep in spiral.
00:20:03
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Yes.
00:20:04
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Yeah.
00:20:05
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We're going to talk about how to, you know, how to,
00:20:08
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prepare for this in a minute, but just really quickly share with our audience, what were some of the things that you, you realize you would want to do differently or, or you would want to focus on prepared for it be better prepared for.
00:20:23
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Yeah, I think I didn't realize how there was different climates.
00:20:29
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So I showed up, I did not have a jacket gloves.
00:20:35
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I was not thinking about the fact that we'd be rocketing down, you know, different, different temperatures.
00:20:43
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First off, just even getting there.
00:20:46
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Right.
00:20:46
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And then coming down full finger gloves, right.
00:20:49
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hat, right?
00:20:50
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There's things that you probably do need, absolutely, if you are going to be climbing a 14K to a 14K summit.
00:21:00
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Yeah.
00:21:00
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Yeah, that's great.
00:21:01
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Yeah, of course.
00:21:02
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Yeah.
00:21:02
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So the, the gear, right.
00:21:04
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Just having the right gear for the, for the, um, environment where we talked about the cadence, right?
00:21:10
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So having the right gearing, you know, the other thing here is you need some weekly volume of climbing.
00:21:17
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You really, really do.
00:21:18
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Cause climbing is just different.
00:21:20
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Um, right.
00:21:20
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It's just a constant pressure.
00:21:23
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It's like riding on a trainer, but it's like riding on a trainer with a lot of resistance.
00:21:27
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And so, and it really is, you really just can't quite simulate climbing unless you go out there and do it, you know, and you know, that, that probably means finding a way to in your workouts each week, make sure that you get that
00:21:44
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that dosing of climbing.
00:21:46
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And we'll put together, let's not get into it here today, but we will put together a training plan for this with a weekly, week by week, maybe a 10 or 12 week plan to get you ready for something like this.
00:21:59
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And that might be nice, right?
00:22:00
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We might be able to get some people to come do this with us next year.
00:22:03
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If we can give them a blueprint or a template for how to get there.
00:22:07
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And we'll have a lot of fun.
00:22:09
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We'll have a lot of friends.
00:22:10
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All right.
00:22:11
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How about that?
00:22:12
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That's great.
00:22:14
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I got to say, I really learned a lot about myself.
00:22:18
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I learned a lot about you, Rich.
00:22:19
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I feel like the amount of encouragement and just the good feelings really made it a special day.
00:22:29
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So I want people to walk away with the understanding too, that it wasn't just a suffer fast from the go.
00:22:34
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It, there were some really enjoyable moments.
00:22:37
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We got a really cool photo in front of Sasquatch at the crystal reservoir.
00:22:43
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And I'm, I'm going to save this a little bit for when I talk about Musogi, my Musogi, but I just, I had a big smile on my face most of the day.
00:22:52
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Even when I said, this is awful, we laughed.
00:22:56
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It was, it was good.
00:22:57
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Yeah.
00:22:57
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So yeah,
00:22:59
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Let's lead into that.
00:23:00
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Actually, I think this is a perfect.
00:23:01
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So, Rich, going into today's ride, I was very unsure of what to expect.
00:23:09
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I was also very excited.
00:23:12
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I heard from Rich, you know, we've been talking about this for a while, that this is an annual challenge that he does.
00:23:18
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He's been doing it since 2017.
00:23:20
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And it's something he looks forward to every year.
00:23:22
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So I was super pumped that we were going to do this together.
00:23:28
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I honestly had never ridden on Pikes Peak Highway.
00:23:33
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I had never ventured into learning about it.
00:23:35
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I was very much like green.
00:23:39
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And other than what Coach Rich shared with me going into this.
00:23:43
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Which was apparently nothing.
00:23:47
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I wouldn't say nothing.
00:23:49
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I had an idea as far as like, this is going to be hard.
00:23:51
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Yeah.
00:23:53
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But, you know, even with a lack of personal knowledge, I stared at that mountain.
00:23:59
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I've stared at that every day for over a year and a half.
00:24:03
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So I did know that this was going to be epic.
00:24:07
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And I also knew that this was going to be probably the hardest thing I did in 2025.
00:24:11
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So I called it my 2025 Masogi.
00:24:13
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And if you remember earlier back, I think it was actually earlier before 2025, we talked about this concept, which was first introduced, yeah, in Michael Easter's book, The Comfort Crisis.
00:24:26
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And the Misogi, it's an ancient Japanese practice.
00:24:31
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It's for purifying the soul, literally.
00:24:34
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And it's been redefined in modern terms as a way to push boundaries, build resilience and challenge what's possible.
00:24:42
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And the rule that you want to follow is that you have to pick a challenge that's so big and audacious that there's at least a 50% chance you won't succeed.
00:24:51
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So it's not that I didn't want to go into this prepared.
00:24:54
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It was more of an understanding that I know this is extremely hard.
00:24:57
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I know that I have a certain set of skills.
00:25:01
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I might not have all the skills to do this, but I have the understanding that I'm going to be pushing myself way outside of my comfort zone.
00:25:09
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And that's what in Masogi is.
00:25:10
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You're forcing yourself to confront your limits and then try to go beyond them.
00:25:14
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And for me, riding Pike's Peak on a road bike,
00:25:19
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Climbing possibly to a 14K summit was it.
00:25:23
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I knew I had a 50% chance or less of completing it on the first try.
00:25:30
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And I definitely stretched my limits.
00:25:32
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I feel like I went beyond them.
00:25:33
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There was one time when Rich had said we were we were, I think, like half a mile from the break check point.
00:25:41
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And he you know, I told him like, man, Rich, I'm starting to shake.
00:25:46
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And he gave me an out like he said, well, this is a good point.
00:25:49
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This is there's no shame in us turning around at this point.
00:25:51
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And I was like, you know what?
00:25:52
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I think if we could just take another minute, let's cut.
00:25:56
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Took a Vespa.
00:25:57
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That's right.
00:25:58
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Yeah.
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And we kept going.
00:26:00
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And I was so proud because even though I felt like air altitude sickness, there was some shaking.
00:26:08
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There was some throwing myself over the side of my bike, trying not to hurl.
00:26:15
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I'm sure I showed up on someone's Instagram reel.
00:26:19
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There was buses going by of people videoing and like, I'm sure I'm on someone's highlight reel of their climb to Pikes Peak.
00:26:27
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But anyway, it was so awesome.
00:26:30
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And one thing Coach Rich kept doing was gently checking in with me and we agreed to go section by section and it was at my pace.
00:26:38
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And I kept smiling, laughing.
00:26:42
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We were swapping war stories.
00:26:45
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And it honestly got me all the way up to the brake check station.
00:26:49
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And I felt like that was amazing.
00:26:53
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And I walked away feeling proud of myself for the achievement that we made it to that point.
00:26:59
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And even though we didn't make it to the summit, I was so proud of how deep I dug and how far I came to my quote unquote breaking point.
00:27:09
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Yeah.
00:27:11
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I was super proud of you.
00:27:12
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That is a big climb, even at no elevation, right?
Future Goals and Challenges
00:27:18
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Yes.
00:27:19
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That's a lot of climbing.
00:27:20
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We did about 4,000 feet of climbing today.
00:27:23
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That's a lot of climbing and that's a big pitch.
00:27:27
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I'm going to say average 9% on average.
00:27:31
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Wow.
00:27:33
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So that's a big ask.
00:27:34
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And then you do that and you're starting at 7,000 feet, higher than 7,000 feet.
00:27:41
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You've never, you didn't grow up here.
00:27:44
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You didn't grow up at elevation here.
00:27:47
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You haven't been here a really long time.
00:27:49
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Never hiked or been over 10,000 feet before.
00:27:55
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This is a, you move the needle in terms of your-
00:28:01
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Limits.
00:28:02
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Your limits.
00:28:03
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You really pushed your limits today.
00:28:05
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And guess what?
00:28:06
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You can now see the next horizon.
00:28:09
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Absolutely.
00:28:10
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You can see, oh, with a better cassette and with the right gear and with some weekly volume and climbing, some intentional weekly preparation for this.
00:28:26
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We're going to get there.
00:28:27
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Oh, yeah.
00:28:28
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Oh, yeah.
00:28:28
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Yes.
00:28:28
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Next year is going to be great, champ.
00:28:30
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You're going to be great.
00:28:32
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So.
00:28:35
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Yeah, Rich, I just wanted to say, you know, it seemed fitting for us to call it there, starting the descent with that being my the brake check.
00:28:46
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And when we reached the bottom, this kind of, you know, this speaks to what you just said.
00:28:50
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You asked how I was feeling.
00:28:52
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And I told you that I was excited to try again next year and see how much further I could progress.
00:28:56
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Yeah.
00:28:57
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And I love that you had this sense of relief because I know you were thinking like, oh, God, did I scare her away from this?
00:29:04
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And no, it was really just like, let's break this down.
00:29:09
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Let's have our hot wash, if you will, and figure out how we can make this work.
00:29:14
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And it lit a fire.
00:29:16
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Yeah.
00:29:17
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Yeah.
00:29:18
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Yeah.
00:29:18
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And that's the whole purpose of a Masogi.
00:29:20
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And, and that's what it is.
00:29:22
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It's not about getting to a summit.
00:29:24
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It's literally discovering what's inside of you when the odds are against you or they're uncertain and the air is thin and your legs are done.
00:29:35
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They're cooked.
00:29:36
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And it's about who you become when you lean into the challenge rather than backing away.
00:29:41
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Like it could have been easy for me to say, yeah, I'm done.
00:29:44
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I'm let's turn around here.
00:29:46
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This is good enough.
00:29:48
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I went past my limit, right?
00:29:50
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So it's so good to say, like, I truly feel like I reached, even though I didn't make it to the summit, I reached beyond.
00:29:58
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And I conquered that voice inside of me that said, you know, I couldn't do this.
00:30:02
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And that's, that's what really,
00:30:05
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lit my fire here to try again.
00:30:07
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So it's happening, baby.
00:30:09
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It's happening in 2026.
00:30:10
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We're going to do this.
00:30:12
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I love that.
00:30:13
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I love that.
00:30:14
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And it is.
00:30:15
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Hey, I wanted to, I told you at the beginning, I was going to look up where Pike's Peak ranked in the nation in terms of hardest climbs.
00:30:24
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These are the US top 10 hardest climbs from PJM Cycling, p-j-a-m-m-cycling.com.
00:30:35
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We've personally documented the U.S. top 10 hardest climbs, the top 10 hardest road climbs in the United States in order of difficulty.
00:30:42
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And I'll talk about how they get this in a minute.
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Mauna Kea, number one, Haleakala, two, Mount Washington, three, Pikes Peak, number four.
00:30:53
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Mount Blue Sky rounds it out at 10.
00:30:59
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Yeah, they were arranged in metric units by difficulty, distance, longest climbs in the area, altitude gained, highest summit, average grade, lowest start point, et cetera, et cetera, to come up with that list.
00:31:19
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Wow.
00:31:19
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Wow.
00:31:21
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Rare air.
00:31:21
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Power it back.
00:31:22
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Yeah, early.
00:31:24
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Yeah, so now it's your turn.
00:31:27
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What mountain, literal or metaphorical, are you willing to stare down in 2025?
00:31:32
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We are halfway through the year.
00:31:33
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That means you still have time.
00:31:35
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We want you to pick something bold, make it matter, and don't do it alone.
00:31:40
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Rich was essential for me.
00:31:41
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Yeah.
00:31:43
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We'll be here cheering, supporting, and swapping war stories right alongside you.
00:31:48
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So get gritty, go big, grow.
00:31:52
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And that's your Get Gritty Tip of the Week.
00:31:54
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Awesome.
00:31:55
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And here is your try to work out of the week.
00:31:58
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Again, let's just go ahead and turn a stamina ride workout into a stamina ride for climbers for preparing for an event like
Training Tips for Climbs
00:32:09
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this.
00:32:09
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So this is going to be all about endurance and power.
00:32:12
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You're going to focus on maintaining your race position or your riding position.
00:32:17
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So you're going to be upright because if you're preparing for climbing, you're going to be upright.
00:32:22
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You also know that you're going to end up being in a slightly lower gear, right?
00:32:25
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You're going to probably be in your lowest gear if you're doing some steep climbing like today.
00:32:29
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What was our, I mean, you probably found your cadence down around 70 a lot of the times.
00:32:33
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Oh, no.
00:32:33
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I think it was even lower than that.
00:32:35
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I think it was 60, 55.
00:32:36
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Yeah.
00:32:37
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Yeah.
00:32:39
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So you're going to need to spend some time in lower cadence as you do these.
00:32:43
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So we're going to do a normal warmup, 10 minute warmup zone to mix in some 30 second spin ups off and on.
00:32:51
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Get some, get that lactate clearing system, do three by one minute in zone four, a minute on zone four, a minute back in zone two, back and forth for three, just to get the system going.
00:33:03
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Now at about 10 minutes, now you're all warmed up.
00:33:06
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What I would say here is do this, if you can do this and find a nice steady grade, find a nice steady climb, this is a great way to just now spend, you're going to do two by 12 minutes in this case, two by 12 minutes in zone four, and then you're going to
00:33:24
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Each of those, you're going to take a five minute recovery between those in zone two.
00:33:30
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So find this nice steady climb and then get into zone four power for that 12 minutes going at a grade of, let's say if you're preparing for something like Pikes Peak, try to find a grade of at least 8%.
00:33:43
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High grade near me is a great place to do that.
00:33:50
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Juniper Pass is another fairly decent place to do that.
00:33:53
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That's here pretty close here in the front range.
00:33:55
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We need to find some good places down by you, April.
00:33:58
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So the idea is do that two by 12 minutes in zone four, do a 10 minute back in zone two, just to get a little bit of recovery in and then do a one by 20 minute in zone three.
00:34:12
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Balance of the time in zone two, you know, the balance of the time here is going to be dependent on kind of where you are in your progression toward Pikes Peak.
00:34:22
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You're probably wanting to put in at least a three hour ride at some point in your preparation for Pikes Peak with a lot of climbing.
00:34:30
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And there you go.
00:34:31
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So the idea here is, again, to really prepare you to be in that climbing position and to be climbing at a grade that you're going to be preparing for and at a cadence that you are going to be geared for.
00:34:46
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So figuring out what that lowest gear is for you on that grade and what kind of cadence it produces is
00:34:55
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Can you manage that cadence?
00:34:57
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If not, look at swapping out and getting a, a, a larger cassette and then practicing at that cadence in preparation for, for Pikes Peak or whatever your big, your big climb is.
00:35:12
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Really, when you're doing this and you're executing this, try to build into it.
00:35:18
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If you've got multiple intervals like we had here, we had two zone four intervals.
00:35:23
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Try to make that second one a little bit higher than the first one just to get that body challenged and make those adaptations and those responses to that increasing challenge.
00:35:36
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The body will respond to that and you'll be stronger for the next ride.
00:35:40
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We'll talk about how to put this in a larger structure in the future.
00:35:45
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So there you go.
00:35:45
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There is your stamina ride for climbers workout of the week.
00:35:53
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Yes.
00:35:53
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Way to tweak that for this specific function here, Rich.
00:35:58
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That was very well done.
00:36:00
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On the fly.
00:36:00
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I love that.
00:36:03
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Pro, pro here.
00:36:04
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All right.
00:36:05
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That leads us to our final fun segment.
00:36:09
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We are going to be bringing it home on Pikes.
00:36:12
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I am going to be throwing some trivial fact or fiction to Rich to see where his merits are with Coloradan knowledge.
00:36:20
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Yeah.
00:36:23
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All right.
Pikes Peak Trivia Fun
00:36:24
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So it's time to ascend into madness with a brand new segment we're calling Pike's Peak Fact or Fiction.
00:36:31
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We're taking one of Colorado's most iconic climbs, the infamous Pike's Peak Highway.
00:36:37
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Rich, your mission, should you choose to accept it?
00:36:40
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And you will accept it.
00:36:41
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No ifs, ands, or buts.
00:36:43
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is to tell us which of these high altitude statements are real and which are just altitude induced hallucinations.
00:36:50
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I almost had a hallucination today.
00:36:55
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You ready?
00:36:56
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Yes, I'm ready.
00:36:56
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This is awesome.
00:36:58
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Oh my God.
00:36:58
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Okay, let's go.
00:37:00
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All right.
00:37:00
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Number one, this is the statement.
00:37:02
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Race cars use jet engines for added thrust to ascend Pike's Peak.
00:37:07
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Do you want to give you just true or false?
00:37:11
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Yep.
00:37:12
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False.
00:37:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:14
Speaker
Well, tell me if you, what you're, yeah.
00:37:15
Speaker
Okay, good.
00:37:17
Speaker
We just, we just, we just don't have jet engine cars.
00:37:19
Speaker
I'm just saying.
00:37:24
Speaker
We especially don't have them going through forest, through national forest.
00:37:29
Speaker
You saw through there.
00:37:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:31
Speaker
All right.
00:37:32
Speaker
Well, while, uh, competitors use high output turbocharged engines, like 875 house, a horsepower Puget 208s, uh, you're correct.
00:37:43
Speaker
There is no bolting jet engines to their cars for these high altitude races.
00:37:49
Speaker
But did you know there's an actual race of Pikes Peak?
00:37:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:37:53
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:37:54
Speaker
Yep.
00:37:54
Speaker
Mount Evans.
00:37:55
Speaker
Sorry, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
00:37:58
Speaker
You bet.
00:37:58
Speaker
Yes.
00:37:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:59
Speaker
When I was looking these up, I was like, oh, this is so freaking cool.
00:38:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:05
Speaker
It's amazing.
00:38:06
Speaker
It's an incredible mountain.
00:38:08
Speaker
Incredible history.
00:38:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:11
Speaker
We should have done historical facts, but yes, this is great.
00:38:14
Speaker
Okay, good.
00:38:16
Speaker
Number two, runners have passed out at the summit due to thin air and needing oxygen revival.
00:38:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
You think?
00:38:27
Speaker
I almost passed out.
00:38:28
Speaker
Yes.
00:38:29
Speaker
So I know these are a little too easy, but that's okay.
00:38:32
Speaker
They're fun.
00:38:32
Speaker
No, no, totally fun.
00:38:34
Speaker
No, it's a thing.
00:38:37
Speaker
Even having grown up here, I can't spend very much time up there.
00:38:40
Speaker
Yeah, it is thin.
00:38:42
Speaker
Have you heard of the doubler, Rich?
00:38:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:45
Speaker
What's the doubler?
00:38:46
Speaker
No, I don't think I have.
00:38:47
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:47
Speaker
Well, it's a Pikes Peak ascent.
00:38:51
Speaker
So it's a half marathon run up.
00:38:54
Speaker
And then the second day, so it's done in consecutive days, it's a Pikes Peak marathon.
00:38:59
Speaker
So they run up and run down.
00:39:01
Speaker
Oh, gotcha.
00:39:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:02
Speaker
Yeah, sure.
00:39:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:04
Speaker
Oxygen levels are roughly 60% of sea level.
00:39:08
Speaker
And there are documented cases of athletes needing supplemental oxygen at the summit aid station after fainting or showing signs of altitude sickness.
00:39:16
Speaker
So they've run up one day and then the next day they run up and they run down.
00:39:21
Speaker
That's crazy.
00:39:23
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:23
Speaker
Yes.
00:39:24
Speaker
Well, yeah, good for them.
00:39:27
Speaker
Yeah, you can have that.
00:39:30
Speaker
Number three, true or false?
00:39:33
Speaker
Pikes Peak birthed burrow racing alongside donkeys up the mountain.
00:39:38
Speaker
Burrow racing.
00:39:41
Speaker
Burrow racing is a thing, but I don't think it... I know it has its roots in Leadville just because of... Good.
00:39:51
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:52
Speaker
Wow.
00:39:53
Speaker
You earned your card right there.
00:39:55
Speaker
Burrow racing, known as... Yeah, go.
00:39:59
Speaker
My friend does it.
00:40:00
Speaker
My friend Kim does burrow racing.
00:40:02
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:40:02
Speaker
Used to be one of the hosts on the podcast years ago.
00:40:06
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
00:40:07
Speaker
How amazing.
00:40:09
Speaker
It's known...
00:40:10
Speaker
Known as Pack Borough, it originated in Colorado, but traces back to historic mining routes in Leadville and Fairplay, not Pikes Peak.
00:40:20
Speaker
The first official Pack Borough race began in 1949 along Mosquito Pass between Leadville and Fairplay.
00:40:26
Speaker
Yeah, we should do this.
00:40:29
Speaker
No, we should totally.
00:40:30
Speaker
No, this is a totally thing.
00:40:31
Speaker
No, look up.
00:40:33
Speaker
Google, I want to sign up for a borough race.
00:40:36
Speaker
They will give you a borough and you can run with the borough.
00:40:39
Speaker
No way.
00:40:40
Speaker
I would so be down.
00:40:42
Speaker
Holy smokes.
00:40:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's all about getting your burrow to go and keeping up with your burrow.
00:40:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:40:51
Speaker
I actually have another friend of the show.
00:40:56
Speaker
She was actually a part of 303 who actually has burrows, and they have burrows for this purpose.
00:41:03
Speaker
No way.
00:41:04
Speaker
I'm going to hook us up.
00:41:05
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, this is happening.
00:41:07
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
00:41:08
Speaker
A whole new world just opened up, Rich.
00:41:11
Speaker
Wow.
00:41:11
Speaker
This is fun.
00:41:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:14
Speaker
All right.
00:41:15
Speaker
Number four.
00:41:16
Speaker
Wow.
00:41:17
Speaker
What did we get into today?
00:41:18
Speaker
I know.
00:41:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:19
Speaker
I opened the lid here.
00:41:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:21
Speaker
Here's the statement.
00:41:23
Speaker
High altitude summer temps can freeze fuel lines in race support vehicles.
00:41:29
Speaker
Factor fiction.
00:41:30
Speaker
High altitude summer temps, like overnight temps?
00:41:35
Speaker
Like, I don't know.
00:41:37
Speaker
I don't, I mean, no, no, no.
00:41:38
Speaker
Good job.
00:41:40
Speaker
How old would it have to be?
00:41:42
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:41:44
Speaker
So although summit temperatures may dip near freezing, even snow in summer, modern fuel systems aren't vulnerable to frozen fuel lines in mild conditions.
00:41:54
Speaker
Saw through that one again.
00:41:55
Speaker
Ding, ding, ding.
00:41:57
Speaker
Ding, ding, ding.
00:41:58
Speaker
That was a blast, April.
00:42:01
Speaker
Thanks for spending 4th of July with me, folks.
00:42:05
Speaker
Thanks for listening with us.
00:42:06
Speaker
Hope you're having a great three-day weekend.
00:42:09
Speaker
Yeah, I'm still traumatized, Rich.
00:42:11
Speaker
You're going to have to wait.
00:42:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:13
Speaker
All right.
00:42:13
Speaker
You have to wait.
00:42:14
Speaker
You're going to ask me after we look into this pack burrow racing here.
00:42:18
Speaker
Oh, that's our next adventure.
00:42:19
Speaker
That's right.
00:42:21
Speaker
Yeah, that's got me jived for sure.
00:42:25
Speaker
All right.
00:42:25
Speaker
Well, we're going to have to report more on that one next week.
00:42:27
Speaker
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00:42:29
Speaker
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00:42:32
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00:42:34
Speaker
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00:42:36
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00:42:40
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00:43:18
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Oh, three.