Podcasts about girls gone gravel

Have you ever been out on the trail or road and encountered a mechanical issue that left you stranded and afraid to ride longer distances on your own? Or maybe you've been putting off taking care of your bike because you're not sure what you should be doing? In either case, you're not alone. Many cyclists, especially women, haven't been given the encouragement or resources to learn these crucial skills.That's why I'm thrilled to welcome Casey Wytaske to the show. Casey is a professional bike mechanic and certified mountain bike coach who has dedicated her career to empowering women in cycling. After discovering her passion for bike mechanics while volunteering at a local non-profit bike shop in 2013, Casey went on to become certified at the United Bicycle Institute and now works as a demo technician for Liv Cycling.In today's episode, we'll discuss why there are so few female bike mechanics, essential maintenance skills every cyclist should know, and what tools you should have in your home toolkit. Casey will also share insights about the Girls Gone Gravel mechanic camps she leads and offer practical tips for getting your bike ready for riding season. If you've ever hoped to become better at bike maintenace, this is an episode you don't want to miss. 

This week Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Meredith Root of Tactic Nutrition to share some big news for 2025. Girls Gone Gravel will be teaming up with Life Time and Tactic Nutrition to create the More Women More Miles community. This is our way of “keeping our foot on the gas” to make sure that women's participation in big gravel events continues to grow. As a coach, Meredith explains how important it is for women to continue to regularly carve out time and attention for themselves, no matter how small or big your goals may be. The More Women More Miles program will help us all do just that, with bi-monthly meet seminars covering a range of topics related to racing long, a community of like-minded women, and pre-race meetups at Unbound in 2025. Follow Meredith and Alex on Instagram @tacticnutrition and learn more about their coaching services at tacticmethod.com and tacticworksout.comJoin the More Women More Miles community at https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/morewomenmoremiles Follow us on Instagram:@girlsgonegravel @feisty_media Girls Gone Gravel Website:https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/ Feisty Media Website:https://livefeisty.com/ Support our Partners:Feisty Girona Gravel Camp: https://www.thomsonbiketours.com/trips/feisty-girona-gravel-camp/ Use the code gggfierce for 30% off at fiercehazel.com Tifosi: Use the code FM20! to get 20% off your order at tifosioptics.com To shop all LTH Nutritional Supplements, head to shop.lifetime.life/nutrition and use code FEISTY at checkout to get 20% off your order! Feisty's Lift Heavy Guide: Get your guide to lifting heavy plus a 4-week training plan at https://www.womensperformance.com/lift-heavy

This week Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Meredith Root of Tactic Nutrition to share some big news for 2025. Girls Gone Gravel will be teaming up with Life Time and Tactic Nutrition to create the More Women More Miles community. This is our way of “keeping our foot on the gas” to make sure that women's participation in big gravel events continues to grow. As a coach, Meredith explains how important it is for women to continue to regularly carve out time and attention for themselves, no matter how small or big your goals may be. The More Women More Miles program will help us all do just that, with bi-monthly meet seminars covering a range of topics related to racing long, a community of like-minded women, and pre-race meetups at Unbound in 2025. Follow Meredith and Alex on Instagram @tacticnutrition and learn more about their coaching services at tacticmethod.com and tacticworksout.comJoin the More Women More Miles community at https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/morewomenmoremiles Follow us on Instagram:@girlsgonegravel @feisty_media Girls Gone Gravel Website:https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/ Feisty Media Website:https://livefeisty.com/ Support our Partners:Use the code gggfierce for 30% off at fiercehazel.com Tifosi: Use the code FM20! to get 20% off your order at tifosioptics.com To shop all LTH Nutritional Supplements, head to shop.lifetime.life/nutrition and use code FEISTY at checkout to get 20% off your order! Feisty's Lift Heavy Guide: Get your guide to lifting heavy plus a 4-week training plan at https://www.womensperformance.com/lift-heavy

This week we have two special guests to help us all get ready to watch the 2024 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race. We are joined by cycling legend, and Feisty's Hit Play Not Pause host Selene Yeager, as well as another cycling legend and the voice of the Life Time Grand Prix Janel Spilker. Selene has raced Leadville in the past, and she gives us her insider's insight on the course and the places racers will need to watch out for. New for this year, the elite women will have their own start, and we hear how this may play into race strategy and tactics for the women. With the cancellation of Crusher in the Tushar, the results of Leadville are wide open. Each of the four give their picks for the women's AND men's podiums. Tune in to the Girls Gone Gravel and Life Time Grand Prix Instagram pages this weekend for all of the action from Leadville. Follow us on Instagram:@girlsgonegravel @feisty_media Girls Gone Gravel Website:https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/ Feisty Media Website:https://livefeisty.com/ Support our Partners:Use the code gggfierce for 30% off at fiercehazel.com Buycycle: save up to $100 on your purchase by entering code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at buycycle.com Precision Fuel & Hydration: Use this link to get 15% off your first order https://visit.pfandh.com/girlsgonegravel Tifosi: Use the code FM20! to get 20% off your order at tifosioptics.com Use the code FEISTY for 15% off first-purchases at pillarperformance.shop, or TheFeed.com for North American listeners.

This week we bring you a special live show from UNBOUND Gravel in Emporia, KS, where we sat down with two legends in the sport of gravel cycling, UNBOUND Gravel co-founder Kristi Mohn and seven time world champion Rebecca Rusch to have an open, honest conversation about midlife and menopause, how we view things today, and what we want for the future. Spoiler alert: We're not hanging it up anytime soon. Kristi Mohn is one of the founders of UNBOUND Gravel and is an integral member of the Life Time offroad team. She is also a Gravel Cycling Hall of Fame inductee, and is the cohost, along with Kathryn Taylor, of the Girls Gone Gravel podcast. Rebecca Rusch is an adventure athlete, seven time World Champion, two time Hall of Fame inductee, keynote speaker, best-selling author of Rusch to Glory, founder of Rebecca's Private Idaho, and an Emmy award winner for the film Blood Road.Enter to win a Liv Devote - Be Good™ Edition gravel bike and an entry to Rebecca's Private Idaho gravel event this summer! Head on over to feistygiveaway.com by June 16 for your chance to win. (You must be based in the U.S. to win.)Subscribe to the Feisty 40+ newsletter: https://feistymedia.ac-page.com/feisty-40-sign-up-page Follow Us on Instagram:Feisty Menopause: @feistymenopause Feisty Media: @feisty_media Selene: @fitchick3 Hit Play Not Pause Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/807943973376099 Join Level Up - Our Community for Active Women Navigating the Menopause Transition:Join: https://www.feistymenopause.com/monthly-membership-1 Leave your questions for Selene:https://www.speakpipe.com/hitplay Get the Free Feisty Women's Guide to Lifting Heavy Sh*t:https://www.feistymenopause.com/liftheavy Support our Partners:Hettas: Use code FEISTY20 for 20% off at https://hettas.com/ Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/ Tifosi Optics: Use code FM20 for 20% off at https://tifosioptics.com/

Triathlete turned gravel cyclist, founder and co-host of the very popular Girls Gone Gravel podcast Kathryn Taylor wears many hats in the cycling community and we were so lucky to be able to sit down with her to hear her story about how she got into gravel, the beginning of the Girls Gone Gravel Brand, and what's to come for her own podcast! As an exclusive offer for listeners of this podcast, use code "GIRLSGONEGRAVEL" for 15% off your registration in the women's or non-binary category of Gravel Worlds 2024!

Live from Bentonville...This is.......Girls Gone Gravel! This week, we bring you in-person interviews before and after the gravel races at Big Sugar. Featuring some of our favorite gravel cyclists, like Kate Veronneau, Rose Grany, Hannah Shell, LDC, Haley Smith, and more, we hear all the nerves before the race and all of the excitement after. From Big Sugar to Little Sugar, and with post-race beers in hand, Kathryn gets real with some of the best gravel cyclists in the pro women's field. *** Support the Podcast *** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at insidetracker.com/feisty Hammerhead: Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at checkout Register for the Outspoken Summit November 11-13th at https://www.womensperformance.com/outspoken (https://www.womensperformance.com/outspoken)  Mentioned in this episode: Inside Tracker - September 2022 This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Here at Girls Gone Gravel, we're pretty vocal about how much women need to eat. And it's A LOT, especially if you're active and performance-minded. However, we're not professional nutritionists or dieticians so this week, we welcome Caroline Bulkholder onto the show to school us on all things disordered eating. Caroline is a registered dietician nutritionist and the owner of her own nutrition and counseling company for eating disorders called RootED. Caroline tells us about her own journey with disordered eating, and her path to moving away from this and to a place of nurturing and nourishing herself. Further, she dismantles many ideas around how much women "should" eat, and the consequences of underfueling. www.rootednutritionandcounseling.com @root_ednutrition *** Support the Podcast *** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at insidetracker.com/feisty Hammerhead: Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at checkout TRIHARD: Try out the new Muscle & Mind Soak from TRIHARD. Use code STAYFEISTY20 for 20% off at trihard.co  Nominate an outstanding woman in endurance sports for an Outspoken Award at https://www.womensperformance.com/awards (https://www.womensperformance.com/awards)  Register for the Outspoken Summit November 11-13th at https://www.womensperformance.com/outspoken (https://www.womensperformance.com/outspoken)  This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

The Norseman triathlon in Norway is arguably the hardest 140.6 on the planet. 2.4 miles in a 55 degree fiord, ride 112 miles with 10K feet of climbing in freezing temperatures, and then run 26.2 with a 3K feet climb in the last 10 miles. Our guest, Tim Hola takes us through his preparation and race where he finished 41st overall earning him the coveted "black shirt".    Show Sponsor: UCAN Keep your fueling fresh with new UCAN Pineapple Edge. UCAN uses SuperStarch instead of simple sugars and stimulants to fuel athletes.  UCAN keeps blood sugar steady compared to the energy spikes and crashes of sugar-based products.  Steady energy equals sustained performance and a faster finish line!   Use UCAN in your training and racing to fuel the healthy way, finish stronger and recover more quickly!  Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co     In Today's Show Feature Interview - Tim Hola on Norseman Endurance News Collins Cup Match Ups Outspoken Women in Endurance Sports Awards Vuelta de Espana starts today 23.3km team time trial in the Netherlands. What's new in the 303 Leadville 100 MTB Results / LTR this weekend Swim School Video of the Week  Sam Long Takes On The Norwegian Hype Train   Feature Interview: Tim Hola on Norseman   Norseman returned to the global stage Saturday, 6th August, with a race that saw new course records, surprise performances and a reminder that the elements will always test even the strongest athletes.   Norseman is arguably the hardest full-distance triathlon on the planet and friend of the show Tim Hola took on the beast two weeks ago. He's back home here in Colorado, thawed out and here to share why Norseman, how he prepared, how the race went down, what he learned and his recommendations for those considering Norseman.   POST INTERVIEW COMMENTS:   Our News is sponsored by Buddy Insurance. Buddy Insurance gives you peace of mind to enjoy your training and racing to the fullest. Buddy's mission is simple, to help people fearlessly enjoy an active and outdoor lifestyle.    Get on-demand accident insurance just in case the unexpected happens. Buddy ensures you have cash for bills fast.  This is accident insurance not health and life insurance.  Go to buddyinsurance.com and create an account.  There's no commitment or charge to create one.  Once you have an account created, it's a snap to open your phone and in a couple clicks have coverage for the day.  Check it out!   Endurance News:   The Collins Cup 2022 Matchups – Who is racing who? Race is Saturday August 20th   The event went ‘big' with Match #1 pitting all-time legend Daniela Ryf, against all-time legend Flora Duffy. That's a tough challenge for the returning to racing Sarah True, to take on.   The men's first race (match #7) didn't come as a surprise, but will certainly provide interest with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold and bronze medallists, Kristian Blummenfelt and Hayden Wilde, joined by the USA's Ben Kanute.   Match #6 (Anne Haug / Jackie Hering / Tamara Jewett) will surely see three of the fastest female run splits of the day, while the youngster, Sam Laidlow, was more than happy to be pitted against long-time rivals Sam Long and Lionel Sanders in Match #8. The North American duo will want to silence the banter of the young Frenchman… but will have to catch him first, when he leaves them adrift in the water!   Match #        Team Europe        Team USA        Team Internationals 1        Daniela Ryf        Sarah True        Flora Duffy 2        Laura Philipp        Chelsea Sodaro        Ashleigh Gentle 3        Kat Matthews        Skye Moench        Paula Findlay 4        Nicola Spirig        Sophie Watts        Vittoria Lopes 5        Holly Lawrence        Jocelyn McCauley        Ellie Salthouse 6        Anne Haug        Jackie Hering        Tamara Jewett 7        Kristian Blummenfelt        Ban Kanute        Hayden Wilde 8        Sam Laidlow        Sam Long        Lionel Sanders 9        Magnus Ditlev        Rudy Von Berg        Max Neumann 10        Patrick Lange        Jason West        Aaron Royle 11        Gustav Iden        Matt Hanson        Jackson Laundry 12        Daniel Bækkegård        Chris Leiferman        Braden Currie   How to Watch   The Outspoken Women in Endurance Sports Awards are back with an expanded reach to celebrate the contributions of even more women in endurance sports. August 18, 2022   Victoria, BC – August 18, 2022. Nominations are now open for the 2022 Outspoken Women in Endurance Sports awards with categories focused on women in triathlon and gravel cycling. The Women in Endurance Sports Awards celebration will be held in Tempe, Arizona at 11:00am Sunday, November 13th, 2022. The awards ceremony will be streamed live for community members who would like to participate. The awards ceremony attracted an audience of over 7000 in 2020. As in previous years, the awards celebrate the many women who contribute daily to growing women's inclusion and equity in the sport and are advocates for social change in small and large ways. The awards ceremony will be part of the Outspoken Summit that spans the weekend of November 11th-13th.   The keynote speaker for the awards ceremony will be Zsa-Zsa Porter, a triathlete and entrepreneur from Charlotte, NC. Porter is a multi-time Ironman finisher and opened the restaurant The Exposed Vegan in November 2020, after seeing the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic was having on the Black community.   Outspoken Co-Founder and Feisty Media CEO, Sara Gross is excited to continue celebrating women through the Outspoken Awards: “Over the last three years I have been stunned by the number of nominations and moreover, the stories of the incredible work women are doing in triathlon. Adding gravel cycling to this year's awards gives us even more opportunity to celebrate the work of many women that might otherwise go unnoticed.”   Girls Gone Gravel founder Kathryn Taylor is excited to add gravel-specific awards to the ceremony. “The women in the gravel cycling community are leading the way for diversity and inclusion at all levels. I'm thrilled for the opportunity to celebrate these contributions.”   2022 Awards will include:   Triathlon – Coach of the Year Triathlon – Athlete of the Year Triathlon – Bethany Rutledge Memorial Award Gravel Cycling – Coach of the Year Gravel Cycling – Athlete of the Year Gravel Cycling – Community Service Award Race Director of the Year Outstanding Media Contribution Business Impact Award Lifetime Achievement Award Outspoken Woman of the Year To read about the award selection criteria, and to nominate an outstanding woman from your community, visit womensperformance.com/awards. The deadline for award nominations is September 11th, 2022 at midnight pacific time. To purchase tickets for the Outspoken: Women in Endurance Sports Summit, which includes entry to the Awards Ceremony, visit www.outspokensummit.com.   About Outspoken Women in Endurance Sports   The Outspoken Summit is a partnership between Feisty Media and Shift Sports. Feisty Media produces the IronWomen, Hit Play Not Pause, If We Were Riding, Women's Performance, and Girls Gone Gravel podcasts, hosts written content at livefeisty.com and provides live video coverage at numerous triathlon and gravel events in North America. Shift Sports is dedicated to assisting endurance sports organizations, teams, and events in initiating and sustaining inclusive practices by looking beyond participation numbers alone. Register for the 2022 summit at outspokensummit.com.   What's New in the 303:   Leadville Trail 100 MTB Results - Last week's guest Justin Morris finished in 10:15:15; M30-39 85/ 162 https://www.athlinks.com/event/219291/results/Event/1018674/Course/2248653/Bib/1458   Pool School I mentioned last week that I was heading to Dallas for TriDot Coach Pool School. TriDot is putting all of their coaches through the TriDot method for coaching athletes to swim with balance, low drag and high power.   Friday night we had a dinner together where I got to meet most of the coaches. I introduced myself to the coach that sat across from me at the table, who turned out to be Kurt Madden, who is a three Time Top 10 Finisher - Ironman World Championships; 2) Two Time Winner - Ultraman World Championships; 3) Two Time Age Group Winner - Ironman North American Championship; 4) Ironman All World Athlete - Ranked #1 in the World - Age Group - @ the Ironman distance in 2015 - 2106.   Saturday was classroom and dry land training. We learned the why behind the techniques and form being taught. We learned the cues for remembering various aspects of streamlining, arm recovery, hand entry and the power phase of the stroke. We learned how to identify technique problems and coach through them.   Sunday we were in the pool from 8-12 and applied everything we learned in the classroom to the pool. We started with 100 TTs for time to get a pre instruction baseline. We started with basic KOSS for more than an hour just working on balance in the water. The next hour and half was on the recovery mechanics and the last hour or the power phase and pulling it all together. We finished with a post instruction TT to see who made improvements. One coach went from 1:01 100M to a :59 100M. Some coaches took 4", 6", 8" and in one case 16" off their 100.   We will be offering 2Day TriDot Pool School around the country starting this Fall.   Upcoming Multisport Events in Colorado (runningintheusa.com) Upcoming Classic Runs in Colorado (runningintheusa.com)   Video of the week: Sam Long Takes On The Norwegian Hype Train

We made it!! 100 whole episodes of Girls Gone Gravel goodness (well, 102 to be exact)! All thanks to you - our lovely fans, we have been able to bring stories, experiences, and people to light, from the gravel community. This week, Kathryn and Kristi look back over the past 100 weeks and talk about some of their favorite moments. Having not met each other before starting this podcast, Kathryn and Kristi have become fast friends. The duo reminisces about their favorite guests, learning experiences, and laughs. *** Support the Podcast *** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at https://insidetracker.com (insidetracker.com)/feisty Hammerhead: Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at checkout That's It:  Use code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL to get 20% off your order at https://thatsitfruit.com (thatsitfruit.com)/girlsgonegravel This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

This week on the podcast, Randall sits down with Kathryn Taylor, co-host of the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast and Chief of Staff at Feisty Media. Looking at inclusion in the sport of gravel cycling and how Feisty Media is looking to build a brand centered around helping active, performance-minded women find the resources they need to do the things they love.  Episode Sponsor: Bike Index, a free, non-profit bicycle registry and stolen bike recovery platform.  Girls Gone Gravel Podcast Fiesty Media Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: Girls Gone Gravel [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. This week on the podcast, my co-host Randall Jacobs is gonna take the reins. Randall did an interview with Catherine Taylor of feisty media and a co-host of the girls gone gravel podcast, Catherine. And the team at feisty media are helping active performance minded women find the resources they need to do the things they love. Many of you may be familiar with Catherine's work with Christie Mon on the girls gone gravel podcast. Christie is also a former guest of this podcast, and you can refer to that episode. We did about the big sugar gravel event. If you scroll back a little while in your feed, before we jump into the conversation I wanted to thank this week's sponsor bike index bike index is a nonprofit bicycle registry and stolen bike recovery platform. In fact, take a moment, hit pause, and go register your bike. It takes five to 10 minutes. The hardest part is locating your serial number, but once it's in the system, it's a free resource. Bike index has no business talking to you. They're hoping to just sit there in the background as a utility, but God forbid your bike goes missing and gets stolen. Bike indexes. One of the only resources you're gonna find online to help coordinate the efforts of recovering your bicycle. They're a nonprofit. Everything they do. Any donation you make is tax deductible. Registration is free, so you really don't have any excuse other than time to register your bikes. Go on, hit up bike index.org and get your bike registered with that said, let's jump on over to Randall's conversation with Katherine. [00:02:05] Randall: Katherine, thank you for coming on the gravel ride podcast. It's great to have this conversation. It seems like we have a lot of alignment in terms of the types of community building projects that we're most interested in and obviously our shared love of this particular sport. So, would just love to start with what's. What's your background with the sport? How did you end up doing a podcast called girls gone gravel . [00:02:26] Kathryn: Well, it's funny. I'm as many of the guests that we've actually had in our podcast, I've learned there's a lot of burnt out triathletes that end up in gravel. And that was definitely me. So I was really involved in triathlon for about 10 years. I raced coached. I even worked at a triathlon store. That was one of the top triathlon online retailers in the company. And I got really burned out from it because it's all about checking your power and your wants and. A lot of training all the time. And a friend of mine that was in the tri club was doing this race at the time called dirty cancer. And sh because she had heard this woman named Alison Terick on a podcast and she had never rid her bike more than 20 miles, but she signed up for the 200 mile event and was training through the company that I coached with. So I wasn't her coach, but one of my coworkers was her coach. And so I just heard all about this journey to this crazy gravel. Race. And I was like, oh, this sounds kind of fun. I think I'm gonna get a gravel bike instead of a traveling bike. And so I got a gravel bike and I would go out, she would go be doing like five laps of this local 20 mile loop. And I would go out and do one lap with her and just started to love it and love the adventure. And then started hosting some rides on the weekends for local community women. And Got into that. And then it's actually a funny story. So I was working at a bike shop at the time. And when I bought the bike, the bike shop owner was like, well, I don't think you're gonna like gravel because it's hard. And that made me really mad yeah. [00:04:00] Randall: oh [00:04:01] Kathryn: yeah. And so I had way too much wine one night and I woke up at two in the morning and I was like, I'm gonna start an Instagram account. It was when Instagram was. Starting to grow. And I was like, girl's gonna gravel, that's it. So I got the handle at two in the morning and I just started sharing like community pictures and it grew. And that ended up eventually turning into a podcast and now has become a whole brand where we have events. We have a little team, we, you know, go do cover, live events. We're done a few other things in the future, so yeah, that's, that's how it got started. [00:04:34] Randall: And I'm curious, where were you living at the time and what timeframe are we talking here? [00:04:38] Kathryn: So it was 2019. It wasn't that long ago. And I was living in Atlanta, Georgia. So, and, and there's not a ton of gravel around Atlanta. You really have to drive. So it was really in the Southeast the gravel scene. Was much behind kind of the Midwest Northwest, Northeast gravel. It was really just starting to come onto the scene. And the, and people didn't know about things like, you know, Unbound or, or any of those things at the time. My friend Lauren was the first person that any of us ever knew that had gone and done, you know, at the time it was dirty Kansas. So, so yeah. That's, that's where I was living. [00:05:15] Randall: One of the obvious questions that, that, you know, came up to me prior to us recording today was, you know, what was your inspiration? And I kind of feel like I got a little bit of a taste of it when you're talking about that bike shop person. I think that the industry has catered to a particular audience that mostly looks like me, frankly for a very long time. And there is a dire need for more accessible on ramps to other people who wanna participate. And it seems like you, you feel a niche And half the population. It's not really a niche I'd love to hear more about that inspiration and how you've gone about it. [00:05:49] Kathryn: Yeah. So I had been a part of Atlanta tri club, which is the. Probably the third largest triathlon club in the country. And I was one of the coaches for Atlanta tri club. I also was on the regional board for USA triathlon. And we were doing a lot of initiatives in the women's space at the time. And so I, I started to see, there were a few things, if you could do, you could really increase women's participation in the sport. And I had a, a good friend that we were doing. A lot of these things kind of side by side in that. And she, she actually passed away very unexpectedly in 2019 and. [00:06:27] Randall: to hear that. [00:06:29] Kathryn: Thank you. It was yeah, she, it was a, a brain aneurysm. So just out of the blue and I kind of looked back at her legacy and I was. I wanna continue this, but the triathlon space, isn't where I feel the passion anymore. At the same, I was starting to get into gravel. And at the same time I had another friend that was an ultra endurance cyclist. Her name is Danny Gable, and she's done all these crazy ultra endurance adventures. And I started hearing her stories about cycling and how male dominated it was and started looking into it. And I was like, oh, I think there are some things that we could do. That will really bring women to the forefront that are really simple things like telling women stories, giving women a place to connect with each other giving them a space and, and everything just happened to come together right around the time of the pandemic. That's when Christ and I started the podcast and we started a private Facebook group. The, I was like, oh, a couple hundred people. And within, I don't know, two months, it was like 5,000 people. And we were doing, you know, all kinds of webinars and stuff. Over the summer, cuz everybody was stuck at home. Laura King actually had connected with me and she said, Hey, we were gonna do this, this camp or this weekend with rooted, but we can't do it because of the pandemic. But do you wanna do it like just a virtual DIY gravel? Summer thing. And so we did like every Friday we would do a webinar where women could come on and learn for free. And, and so it just, everything started to come together and the community really naturally formed. And it it's really cool because now I go to races and people will say, oh, I heard the podcast. Or I followed your stuff or I'm in the Facebook group. And that's the reason I decided to come do this event or, you know, This inspired me or so. And so story inspired me. So, I think I started rambling, but that's kind of my, my very long answer to your question. It was really [00:08:18] Randall: is entirely the point. [00:08:20] Kathryn: Yeah, but, but I it's been driven by what the community wanted all along. You know, so. [00:08:25] Randall: Well, and I was sharing before we started recording that I actually heard about you and your work from one of our listeners who, who came up to me at rooted Vermont, her name escapes me is actually two women. So if you're listening please drop me a note and remind me your name and just thank you for the introduction. And I asked them, who should we be bringing onto the podcast to talk about community and to elevate their work. And you were the first person that they mentioned. So, there's clearly a deep resonance with what you do. So you have a background having worked in shops, you've been a pretty serious triathlete. You had your own journey into the sport. I'm curious to unpack that a bit. What was it like when you were first getting into cycling or endurance athletics generally? How far back does that go? And what aspects of that experience do you think were different as a consequence of being a woman versus a man coming into it . [00:09:16] Kathryn: Yeah. I actually got into triathlon when I moved to Atlanta. So it was like 2010, I think, 2009, 2010, somewhere right around there. And had lived a lot of places. I had moved there. I was living with my parents and I'd always wanted to do a triathlon. I was a swimmer growing up. I was a really bad runner, but I'd never, like, I'd only ridden my Walmart bike around town. I'd never ridden like a real bike. And so I Googled triathlon. Atlanta and team and training was actually having a info session for their summer training program. So the options were like, sit at home with my parents and watch wheel of fortune, or go meet a bunch of strangers and maybe raise money to do an event. So I ended up signing up for team and training and, and that experience really informed everything I did from then on out. The, the team in training chapter in, in Georgia is, is one of the strongest team in training chapters. At that time was one of the strongest team in training chapters in the country. And they were just so great at bringing people in and teaching them everything from, you know, how do you ride a bike? How do you prepare for a race and, and creating a community around it? And I didn't know anything, like I showed up at my first ride with my mom's bike. That was Just a, like a towny bike and Umbro shorts and a t-shirt everybody was there, there, you know, try bikes and their kits and stuff, but people had just made me feel so welcome. And so part of it, even though I felt like I don't belong here at that moment. And then took me through every piece of it from. Falling over in the parking lot, three times is the first time I tried to clip in and, you know, a woman stayed with me and rode with me that whole day to teaching me, you know, everything about the bike. And then on the contrary, I'd be like, oh, I'm gonna go to this group ride, which would be primarily guys and primarily a race instead of a group ride, like the Tuesday night race, but they didn't communicate that. And so I remember one time I was up I. Dog sitting with my parents or something. And so I was at their house, which is in the north side of Atlanta. And it's really hilly. It's kind of, you're starting to get up into the Appalachians. I went on this ride and I didn't have like a Q sheet. They didn't give them out. They didn't communicate. They didn't say hello at the ride. I was like, okay, well I can hang. I'm a travel now. And I got so lost. Didn't know where I was. Didn't have anybody to call to get back. Finally, like somebody came by and pointed me the way back to town. And I thought if that were my experience, like the first time I showed up at a group ride, I would've never, I would've walked away from the bike. I. Forever. And and I've heard that experience from so many women of just having horrific experiences. The first time they walk into a group ride or a bike shop. And so I just want women to feel confident and be excited about, you know, that, and, and so, because I had such a great experience with team and training and saw the difference, it just it informed the way I wanted to contribute to the community. [00:12:23] Randall: That's great. And I have a confession. I was absolutely one of those men who treated every group ride like a race. I came into the sport, very hard charging and just wanted to compete and go hard and crush it and go into the pain cave and all the things that are associated with that very aggressive more ego driven aspects of the sport that make it so inaccessible. And, it's in recent years that I've come full circle and seen the opportunity to not just take what I've learned and to help bring someone in but also the huge benefit that I get personally from just slowing it down and taking the time to connect and facilitating. So I'm curious, how do you define your community? You have your podcast listeners, you have your Facebook group. What is the extent of the community? How do people interact with you now? How many people are in involved ? What's the structure of it? [00:13:12] Kathryn: Yeah. That's well, just real quick before we move on from like the group ride. Cause I do want like, it's okay. If you have a really hard, fast charging group ride, right. Like I think that is totally fine. And it's appropriate for some people. It's the communication and helping people understand and even saying, like being able to say. this isn't for you. If somebody shows up that's not ready or like I'm willing to sacrifice my night for you. So like, I don't wanna get rid of the group rides that people love to go out and smash themselves on. I just wanna make sure there's spaces. What that, when we say we're welcome to new people, that we're actually welcome to do people [00:13:47] Randall: Yeah. I, I think that that's a really valid point. And if you're going to have a ride that you're opening up to a broader audience, having something in place, whether it be, Points where somebody can break off, to cut the ride shorter or having different groups going at different paces and making sure you have a ride leader for each one of those groups I think goes a long way towards avoiding that sort of scenario that you were describing, where you have a bad experience. And then it's like, well, the bike is not for me. [00:14:13] Kathryn: Yeah. Yeah. So at our community, we, we have several different layers. So we have obviously the podcast we have a free Facebook community called women, gravel, cyclists, and that's women from all over the world. I think it's like between 14 and 15,000 women right now. And it's, it's still. I thought it would fall off after the pandemic, but it's still really active. We have a, when people join, we ask them they're how long they've been riding gravel. And I would say at least a third of them are brand new to gravel cycling. So they're coming to look for advice on bikes, saddles, Shammy, how to train, what events to do, how to find friends. And then we do, we have a small team of about a hundred women Or just a little bit more connected within us. And then this past year, we had our first gravel festival, our women's gravel festival, which is not a competitive event. It's literally just three days of hanging out, having parties riding and learning. And our first one we had about 220 women and we're getting ready next week to announce the 20, 22 dates. 2023 dates. What year are we in? So we'll be back in Bentonville next year for our next one. And we may be able to bump that number up a little bit. [00:15:33] Randall: It's a great location, by the way, the bike infrastructure there is, is quite incredible. And the community there too is it's one of the, one of the country's great cycling communities at this point. [00:15:43] Kathryn: yeah, we were lucky we snapped up Amy Ross. Do you know, have you ever met connected with Amy Ross? [00:15:48] Randall: I don't believe so. Tell me more about her. [00:15:50] Kathryn: She has been in the bike world for a long time, worked for different brands like Santa Cruz that she worked for. Wow. One of the big mountain bike things I can't remember, but her husband's NA Ross. He was a professional mountain biker and they moved to Beville. She was the had a bike Beville. and so she had left bike Bentonville. I was going through, and that's the group that like, if you wanna do an event in Beville you go and you talk to them. So she was, we'd had her on as a podcast guest I'd driven through Bentonville was checking it out. She was like, well, I'm leaving bike Bentonville. And I was like, do you want a job? and so we hired her as our event coordinator on the ground. Basically two weeks later. So she contracts for us as our event coordinator for that event, which makes a huge difference when somebody is in the community day in and day out to, to put together a really great community event. [00:16:40] Randall: And in terms of where people gather online and find you online? Is it primarily the Facebook page, what's your software stack look like? [00:16:47] Kathryn: Yeah. We have a website, girls go gravel. We put, I actually write a lot of the articles and then a woman Celine Jager. Everybody probably knows in the gravel space. Also she works with us at feisty media, so she writes some for us. And then I have another woman from CNN that I pull in a little bit here and there to write articles for me. Her name is Claire and we write a lot of stuff based on what people ask for in the Facebook group. So we're taking. Somebody's asking a question and we're like, oh, we see tons of answers. And I'm like, well, that's an article. So we create a lot of content. So we get a lot of visitors to that site just because we're creating content that people are searching for. From our Facebook page we have our Instagram page and then we have just private Facebook communities. We, we tried like things like slack or other communities and it's, it's just hard. It's hard to get people to go off of Facebook. I know everybody wants them to, but it's so hard. [00:17:42] Randall: We had the same kind of discussion when we started the ridership, we built it in slack initially, or I should say we got it started in slack, the community built itself from there. And there were certain challenges that we saw with Facebook that we wanted to avoid. But slack is great because it's a great communication tool and it is something that people are already using for work in a lot of cases. But then you can't do a lot of the things you'd wanna do like event coordination or dealing with club membership. Then again, Facebook has its own issues. I'd actually love to unpack this a little bit because I've had this conversation with Russ over at path, less pedals and Monica Garrison over at black girls do bike. I'm curious, what are the things that you. Like about the platform and that we're enabling. And what are the things that frustrate you that you would ideally avoid in migrating to something different? [00:18:32] Kathryn: What I like about Facebook is people. Whether they say it, they people say they wanna get off Facebook, but they're still staying there. And a lot of people are lurkers, but they participate in groups. And Facebook has gone really in, on groups in the last few years, because they've seen that trend. Right. So. they're promoting that. And I, I also worked for a tech company for a little while in Atlanta, and I learned it's really hard to get people to use something they're not already using from that that experience, you know, that's the biggest challenge. Yeah. And slack, it just felt like the conversation was really, could be really stagnant a lot of times. Because if people. If they didn't use it for work, it was hard to get them to like, get excited about it. And if they used it for work, sometimes people were like, I'm already on slack all day long. I have PTSD from the dings so, We also one of our communities within Feist, the feisty ecosystem, tried to use my new networks and that also wasn't a good fit for the same reasons. So, so that's why I've stayed on Facebook. I think I have somebody that helps manage the posts if it were just, and, and then I have another person on our team that actually helps manage like all the people coming into the community now and like, The community is really good actually at, at self-regulating so if somebody, if a spammer gets in or if somebody we have a no assholes rule, I don't know if I can cus on your podcast, but we have a no assholes [00:19:53] Randall: Oh, go, go, go right ahead. [00:19:55] Kathryn: And so, they're really good at reporting that and. You know, like we watch it and catch those things and delete them, or just kind of, don't let people get away with being jerks. And I've seen that on a lot of other, especially gravel, Facebook groups that I've been on. There's some real jerks in those groups and the way they can give feedback to people is just it's mean what I don't like is I when not everybody's on the platform and then you. Facebook sometimes is like, I don't think you need to see that anymore. So you have to go to the group if you want something. So, and then the, the other thing I've seen, and I think this is a characteristic of women, we really like to give advice. And so I'll see somebody post something I'm like, oh, they're about to get overwhelmed with like, so much advice about, you know, like, like, so and so just ask like, I'm just, I'm new to riding and I wanna do this 25 mile event. What should I do? And somebody's gonna like give them like a step by step nutrition plan. And I'm like, just go ride your bike. right. Make sure you have water and food when you go out. So people and they mean well, but I, I just see I'm like that they're gonna overwhelm this poor person with like so much. About things. So, so that's why I try to take things and then put, put that into good content. That's a little bit more succinct on our website. [00:21:18] Randall: What are the things that you either are doing off platform, so off of Facebook or that you wish you could do, but you just don't have a tool that works well with your current [00:21:27] Kathryn: Sounds like you all are creating a tech product. [00:21:29] Randall: Well, we've been working on the side with a, like constructing a mighty network and we have a concept for that. So whenever I talk to community organizers, I wanna understand those issues cuz , our vision is to create something that's like a community of allied clubs that share a common infrastructure, and then that organization, it would be a nonprofit. And so, we're starting to do little things like coordinate group rides in the mighty network. Chapter for the ridership and then post that within the slack group to, to get people to join. And it's not seamless , but it's a way of slowly experimenting with it. We have a couple of clubs that have brought their members into their club space in the ridership mighty network. So we're not so much building a tech product as much as we see that there's an opportunity to build a better place for people to come and find out, what to ride, how to ride it and take care of it where to ride, who to ride with and what events are happen. And right now, there's not a one stop shop for that. So maybe you find the girls gone gravel podcast or the podcast that we do or some other resource. So you find some forum, but there's not like a clearing house or one place where you can go and just say, I live here, what's happening near me. Who's near me that I can ride with. What are the recommended tires for my terrain? Things like this. It's very fragmented. [00:22:48] Kathryn: Yeah. Yeah. I would agree on that. Like, one of the things that I know the community wants is they would like they would like to find more people to ride with and more local local things. You know, like regional, because we, especially cuz we're a worldwide group. So people are like you know, every day somebody will be like, I'm in Africa, I'm in here, anybody here that I can ride with. So, those connections and that, you know, that would just become a full-time job in our Facebook community. If you started managing all of those little mini groups and, and like you all, like, we don't, the Facebook community's free. Like it's like, everybody's a volunteer. That's doing it. My job is with feisty media and girls go, gravel came under feisty media. So I get quote unquote paid as a part of that. But I mean, I spent, you know, thousands of my own dollars and hours building everything for before that ever happened, or we ever made a dollar off of anything. So I wish we had that. And then also kind of the step back from that, one of the reasons I haven't been willing. Try to create things around group rides, as I would really like some kind of course or training that you need to go through to be a certified like girls can gravel group ride or something like that, just because of the experiences that I've had. And it's not, I don't want like this massive training, but I want things like you should introduce yourself to people when they show up, it seems like duh, but I think people just get nervous a lot of times if they've not led things in the past or. you know, make sure everybody knows the route, like little things like that. And I just haven't had the capacity to create that, [00:24:27] Randall: Yeah. Well, and these aren't unique to women or to any particular demographic, one of the folks that we've had on the group is Monica Garrison over at black girls do bike. She also started that as a Facebook group with people reaching out . And it's now, a hundred plus chapters and a hundred thousand women around the world and they're organizing events and doing all this stuff. And the challenges that they have are no different than the challenges that we have. And what you're describing too, so there should be some basic toolkit for someone to be able to organize a ride and people need to be able to sign up to post a route, to have a legal waiver. Right. That covers everybody. You know, you're not getting sued for trying to get people together. But then also having some protocols that are in place, like you're describing, introduce yourself, you're expected to arrive on this at this time. Here's the equipment that you should have. It's self-supported. And I think that these things can be largely standardized in a shared infrastructure. And if that were created, then you could leverage the expertise that this much bigger community of people who just wanna ride. You'll have some lawyers in there, you'll have some people who have a lot of technical expertise in there. And then this toolkits available to everyone, you don't have to be an expert in any domain to leverage it. [00:25:35] Kathryn: Yeah, that sounds really smart. And, and, you know, back in my triathlon days, I definitely, there were definitely men that I saw that if they didn't come in looking like a triathlon body, they were treated differently often. So it, it is not just a women issue. Like you said, like it's, it's, it's human issue. And every, I, I just go back to, everybody wants to have a place that they belong and they wanna feel. They're wanted places. And so if we can create those spaces for people, like at the end of the day, when I look at group rides, I'm like one ride a week. Me like riding at the very back of the pack at a super slow pace is not the end of the world for somebody to feel like they belonged. [00:26:16] Randall: Yeah. Everyone has something to gain from having a, common space for diverse people to come together. [00:26:22] Kathryn: Yeah, I was actually talking to Abby Robbins. The first non-binary athlete to finish Unbound. And so Abby just received a good bit of attention. And then there was I can't, I don't know which company was doing a, a video about them, but Abby was at Unbound camp and they were tell at the gravel festival. Abby was telling me about an experience that they were on a ride at a gravel camp. Ended up just like talking to this dude for a long time. Like it was a great conversation. And then the guy was like, oh, well, we should ride some Unbound together. And Abby was like, well, you should know, like, there's gonna be a camera crew following me because of this thing. And the guy was like, oh, what's the thing. Abby said, you know, I'm a non-binary athlete and the guy as well, you should know, like I'm a conservative Christian. And Abby was like, I would've never, and they had a great conversation and Abby was like, I would've never had this conversation. I'm like, I'm sure this, this, somebody that's like in this very conservative Christian camp would also have never like sought out a non-binary athlete to have a conversation with coming from a very conservative Christian background in my past. So I'm like, that's the beauty of it. Right? You experienced these people that you would've never experienced in these points of view and these conversations that shape your life. And I, I just love that about our sport, you know, [00:27:37] Randall: I find that gravel amongst all the different cycling disciplines does seem to be especially amenable to those sorts of really healthy and welcoming dynamics because there's no one thing that is gravel and there's no one type of bike that is a gravel bike. You can, much more so than in other disciplines , ride what you got or get started with what you got. If you ride it on mixed terrain, it's a gravel bike. And yes, you can have fancy equipment, but then also, there's lots of different ways to be a part of it. And we see that in our listenership and within the ridership and even amongst customers that ride the bikes that my company makes. But it's also, you have people of all different abilities who are going for it. It's very different than say roadie culture especially competitive roadie culture, or even mountain bike culture had a little bit more of that festivaly type atmosphere, but then also has its aggressive, hard edge to it too. [00:28:29] Kathryn: Yeah. I never feel like I'm cool enough for mountain biking. I'm like I gotta up my game or something. [00:28:36] Randall: So tell me a bit more about feisty media and how that collaboration started who's involved and the scope of its mission and what it's doing currently. [00:28:47] Kathryn: Sure. So feisty media is a, a women focused media company. So it's, we actually all women on our team. Although we, we would hire men and we focus primarily in the endurance sports space and the whole conversation is about creating an empowering culture for women. And, and we go, we really hone in on the culture piece because there's so much within culture that has. Has given women messages, whether it's about motherhood, whether it's about diet culture, whether it's about equality in sport, that, that if you can address the cultural piece, like a lot of the dominoes will fall. So as an example, one of the reasons that women often under fuel on the bike is because the message of diet culture that you need to look a certain way. And so if you go back to like, actually. We should be fueled and we should be fed when we're riding. And like this message of diet culture is causing us to not do that. So, so we really kind of, we kind of addressed that, but we're, we're kind of fun and cheeky and yeah, so feisty was started by this woman. Her name is Sarah Gross and she was a professional triathlete for 14 years. So back in the day when I was doing triathlon, I actually had a. Triathlon podcast with this friend of mine, Bethany who passed away. And Sarah was a guest on our podcast. And then when Bethany passed away, Sarah reached out to me and she said, I'm so sorry. They wanted to do at one of their events, an award in Bethany's honor. And so, we just kind of got connected through that. She came to Atlanta for the marathon trials. Right before COVID shut the world down, but it was the largest women women's field in the marathon trials ever. So, I helped her do some live coverage for that. And I was like, Hey, they came out you know, starting a podcast, everybody keeps asking for it, but I don't wanna edit a podcast on my, like, by myself again, so much work. Would you be interested in expanding beyond triathlon? And she said, yes. And so. And then she was also like, Hey, we're starting to really grow. We could do some contract work. Would you be interested in some contract work? I was like, sure. And so it, it just, we started with the podcast. I was doing a little contract work within. I think six months, six or eight months, I was working full time with them managing some of our brands. We, we have feisty triathlon. We have our women's performance brand. We have feisty menopause, which is what Celine Jager leads. So that was the brand that I was brought on to manage at first. And then the girls gone gravel brand. And is that all that we have? So within that we have about eight podcasts that fall under. Kind of those different topics. And yeah, so then when we decided to launch a gravel festival, we just brought girls gun gravel fully under the feisty brand, which for me is so great because that was, we were talking about systems. That was a lot of what was stopping me is like, these are all things I can do. I can figure out the financials. I can figure out. The contractors, but it's not stuff I wanted to do. [00:31:48] Randall: Mm-hmm mm-hmm [00:31:49] Kathryn: being able to say, we have a team that's gonna put this festival on. We have money that we can invest in the front end. So I'm not risking my own money for things. It just really opened up the door for us to be able to, to try and experiment with some more things. So it's been a, it's been a great partnership and, you know, part of what we do is we highlight what's happening in the women's fields, but then we also create educational materials. For women for training or racing or those cultural pieces. And then we create communities. So that's the third piece of it. [00:32:20] Randall: Well, I wanna take a moment to highlight. I'm just looking through some of the articles and it's like training and breastfeeding for active moms, or how to handle your period when you're on a gravel ride. These are things that are women's issues, but then also you can look at them as part of accessibility. As well, and these are not resources that I see in any of the media that I'm granted, it's not targeted at me of course, but [00:32:42] Kathryn: Yeah. Now you're gonna get the ads. Now that you've come on our site. [00:32:45] Randall: Yeah. But in just looking at some of the content here, it's obvious why this needs to exist. It is obvious why this is such a core part of making this sport accessible. And in fact, I would even add that it would be beneficial for some of, at least these headlines to exist in media sources, that men or people who don't necessarily need them are at least seeing so that they're aware that this is an issue for this particular group of people that you may be riding with [00:33:11] Kathryn: well, because Celine yer, who does our hip play out pause, which is our menopause podcast. You know, she does a ton of gravel writing. Her husband puts on unpaved and she's like I'm out at gravel rides all the time or gravel events and all these guys come up to me that their wives are like hitting perimenopause or menopause. And they're like, thank you so much for your podcast. I understand so much more about what my wife's going through. She's like, it's so weird having these conversations with guys while I'm racing a gravel of it. [00:33:36] Randall: That actually brings up a great question, what would be the bits of wisdom or knowledge that you would wanna share? To our audience, either for women listening or for men listening to help them be more aware of issues that women face when they're entering the sport or participating in the sport. [00:33:53] Kathryn: Yeah. I mean, I think like the more we can normalize conversations around periods and pregnancy and, you know, menopause, all those things even. especially with the guys we ride with. Right. Cuz that's sometimes what makes it awkward is we're like, Hey, I don't wanna say that. I need to stop on this ride because I have my period, but I really kind of need to stop along this ride. You know, so, or pregnancy it's I feel like a lot of times it's expected that the, the mom is gonna just take this long break while the dad, you know, if they're both into cycling. You see with Laura and Ted king, I just put a post up on Instagram the other day, celebrating Laura, because this is her choice. Like she, she wants to do this, but she wanted to come right back to writing. She wanted to come right back to directing the event. That's not what the choice that every person wants to make, but for so long, the choice was you're a bad bomb. If you wanna do these other things well, for the, the message for the dad was. Yeah, good for you. You're making it all work, you know, celebrating them because they were able to, to hold all those things together. And so, so, so I think like that's a, a big thing is just kind of being okay with normalizing those conversations and like, they feel awkward at first, but like, I don't like go around asking women at the group. Right. If they're on their period and they need to stop, like, don't get weird. [00:35:14] Randall: But maybe if you're organizing a really big group ride, be mindful of the fact that you need a place for people to be able to access a bathroom, or an isolated patch of woods where they can get well off the road. [00:35:25] Kathryn: Yeah. Or, or event directors, you know, we've had talk somebody, when we posted that period, article an event director reached out to me and he said I feel really dumb asking this question, but we wanna offer feminine supplies at the aid stops and I don't know what to buy. Can you just tell me what to buy? And I was like, I love that you asked me this question, [00:35:42] Randall: Hmm. [00:35:42] Kathryn: right? Like we're, we're talking to Laura about coming back on the podcast because she's doing Leadville and is it next weekend is Leadville. And she's like, I have to stop and pump along the way. Like this is the first time I've ever done a race. I'm gonna have to stop and pump. Does Leadville have any place to stop and pump? I don't know. but it'll be interesting to hear. you know, how that plays out for her. So, so yeah, I think like the more we can just say this is, this is normal. Just, just like a guy can just stop and pee on the side of the road, because it's easy. I've been on group rides with guys where it's like, everybody just stopped and is going all of a sudden I'm like, I, I don't know what just happened, but I think I'm gonna go too, since everybody else is [00:36:21] Randall: I'm fortunate. I have an older and two younger sisters and my older and immediately younger sister both have three kids each. And so children and breastfeeding things like this. I've been kind of normalized in my world. But I see how culturally, it's still something that's very uncomfortable for a lot of people. And certainly I also had my adaptation too, even being surrounded by it in my family or with female friends who had kids and had to stop and pump, and just understanding that and not having it be a big deal. I think it's part of a broader cultural shift that's needed to support mothers, but also fathers in playing a more involved, more mindful role that acknowledges the biological realities, and doesn't push it into the shadows. But actually celebrates it. [00:37:06] Kathryn: Yeah, I agree. It's I love seeing, like, I, I love watching Ted and Laura because Ted's like, you know, he obviously was a high level pro he's. They both race in the pro category, but Ted's obviously has more visibility in that because of his background. But, you know, he is also saying, well, I'm not gonna do this event, so Laura can do this event or like, we'll switch. [00:37:29] Randall: Yeah. [00:37:30] Kathryn: ride times and just, and just saying, this is a part of our family, this is something that's important to her. You know, and, and just making that the norm. And so I think they're a really great family. That's kind of leading the way for what that can look like. Yeah. [00:37:44] Randall: Yeah, there's there's a very central role that a mother plays early in a child's life in terms of attachment and so on. But at the same time the gender roles that our society generally has people play, has so much of the burden falling on the woman. And I think it's a missed opportunity, frankly, for a lot of men to connect with their kids really early on. [00:38:05] Kathryn: Yeah, and full transparency. I do not have kids. But you know, just having had many conversations with women, seeing, you know, in the sport of triathlon women, once they had kids, they were done. And now we're seeing like all these moms come back and race at the top levels after they've had. Had children and you're seeing that in the sport of running and gravel's such a new sport and especially the pointy under the spear is a really new sport as far as the pro racing. But I think we're gonna start to see that more and more as well with women saying, I wanna have a kid and I also want to continue to race at this level. And, and we know women can for a long time race those long distances at a high level. [00:38:47] Randall: One of the formative relationships I had in high school was with a then student teacher. She was somebody who was very supportive of me during the difficult periods of high school. And I reconnected with her a few years ago, and she was doing elite triathlons . She's in her mid, late forties, I believe has had two or three kids and just crushes it just as competing at a very high level. And it's really impressive to see what is possible. And it also Dispels a lot of the assumptions about what life can be like for women after having kids. [00:39:21] Kathryn: Yeah, well, Scotty Laga she won the outright Arkansas high country. She's twin boys that are, I can't remember how old they're eight or. And she was racing pro when she got pregnant and decided she wanted to continue racing. And you know, Ernie was racing as well and they just made that choice for their family. Like she actually has the more potential in her career. So, you know, which isn't the choice for everybody. Right. But it's, it's just like saying it doesn't have to be the way that society's always said it should be that you're a, you're a bad person or you're a bad mom. If you want to do these. [00:39:53] Randall: There's inevitably trade offs, but I think that there should be a lot more support from the father and the broader community so that a woman can continue to pursue being a complete version of herself even after kids [00:40:06] Kathryn: Yeah, exactly. [00:40:08] Randall: So what is the longer term vision for feisty media? [00:40:11] Kathryn: We really wanna create something. That's a little bit like the south by Southwest for women in endurance sports or women in sports where there's a place where women can come and gather and learn and have experiences together and, and, you know, connect and, and just feel like, feel like all those pieces, the community, the education of what we're learning about women's physiology and how that impacts. You know, our training and the way we approach life. And and yeah, just like the unique ex opportunity for brands all come together. It was really funny Randall. Like we, when we had our gravel festival, one of the brands there, so 220 women, one of the brands made more money at our festival than they did all three Belgium waffle rides last year because women were coming in an environment. They just felt comfortable and they wanted to spend money and we heard people were like we wish you would've had more brands there because we went, we came to spend money at the festival. And so, so I, I just think there's so many opportunities for creating those, those educational and gathering spaces. So, so that's where we're going. We're four years old, so. right now, we're really focused on bringing together the community and, and we really listen to what does the community want? And we try to create, create that from, for the community, instead of saying, this is what we, you know, it's the, the classic tech, right? Know your audience and then build, solve the problem the audience needs solved. [00:41:42] Randall: As I think. The initiatives that we're involved in, that reminder to validate the vision, getting out of one's own head and one's own biases and going out and actually listening. And what is it that, that the people who are already with you, what is it that they need with the problems that they have? So we've covered a fair amount of ground in terms of how you got your start. Both as a, as a cyclist and with girls gone gravel collaborations and so on. Is there any areas that we didn't cover that you wanna dive into before we split up today? [00:42:10] Kathryn: I think those are the big ones, you know, I think just the more we're celebrating, we're creating space for all people and gravel and, and just saying when the whole community is there. We're all better. I think that's really powerful. The, the other big thing that we try to do is to, is to support the pointy end of the field. And it's not because that's who our everyday person is. Right. But I think the more we can elevate the women's field in cycling and, and kind of create fans and create support around that. The more, it gives people opportunities to see somebody. I'll just give an example. My little niece, I was taking care of her. She had COVID a few weeks ago. So aunt cat got called in to take care of her. And she was feeling much better. She wanted to go on a bike ride. So we were out riding bikes. And then I showed her a video of Kate Courtney when we got back. And she's like, Ugh, she's amazing. Do you think I could ever do that? And that was she's six and I was. You can, but like, if I, if there weren't women like Kate Courtney, that I could show her videos of that are doing those amazing things at six years old, she wouldn't like, see that and dream, like I could do that. Right. And so, just, just being able to see those, those amazing women out there, I think is really important for the future cycling. [00:43:24] Randall: Well, I think you definitely set an example as one of those women, who's doing the work to make it a lot more accessible in allowing little girls like your needs to dream. So thank you for coming on the podcast to share your story. And I look forward to continuing the conversation. [00:43:38] Kathryn: Yeah, we'll have to connect at one of the events soon. [00:43:41] Randall: Absolutely. [00:43:42] Craig Dalton: That's gonna do it for this week's edition of the gravel ride podcast. Big, thanks to Randall and Catherine for that interesting interview. I love what they're doing over there at girls gone gravel, and I hope you go check out their podcast. We'll have links in the show notes for everything they mentioned during the show. And another big, thanks to our friends over at bike index, a nonprofit that's out there helping people get their stolen bikes back. Simply head over to bike index.org and register your bike today. If you're interested in connecting with me or Randall, please visit us in the ridership. That's www.theridership.com. That's a free global cycling community, connecting riders from around the world and sharing information about the sport we love. And if you have a. Please drop a rating or review. That's usually helpful in our discovery until next time here's to finding some dirt under your wheels.

Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? Listen to Feisty Media's Limited Title IX Series https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ix-voices-for-title-ix/id1631215543 (Here!) Leave a voicemail for the show - email sara@livefeisty.com or https://www.speakpipe.com/ifwewereriding (https://www.speakpipe.com/ifwewereriding) ***Support the Podcast*** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) Orca: Use code livefeisty15 for 15% off at https://www.orca.com/ (https://www.orca.com/) LifeTime: Register for the 2022 Verizon New York City Triathlon at https://www.nyctri.com/ (https://www.nyctri.com/) Hammerhead: Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit http://hammerhead.io/ (hammerhead.io) and use promo code RIDING at checkout This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? Listen to the Feisty Media Limited Title IX Series https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ix-voices-for-title-ix/id1631215543 (Here)! ***Support the Podcast*** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) Nuun: Use code STAYFEISTY for 30% off at https://nuunlife.com/ (https://nuunlife.com/) Life Time: Register for the 2022 Verizon New York City Triathlon at https://www.nyctri.com/ (https://www.nyctri.com/) Hammerhead: Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit http://hammerhead.io/ (hammerhead.io) and use promo code IRONWOMEN at checkout This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Hit Play Not Pause is on a quick summer break during the weeks of July 18th and 25th, 2022. While we're out, we are excited to share two episodes from Feisty Media's excellent limited Title IX series. Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? **Support the Podcast** InsideTracker: 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty) Previnex: 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/ (https://www.previnex.com/)  Bonafide: 20% off your first purchase when you subscribe to any product with code HITPLAY at  http://hellobonafide.com/hitplay (hellobonafide.com/hitplay) Nutrisense: Use code "HITPLAY" at https://nutrisense.io/hitplay (nutrisense.io/hitplay) for $30 off any subscription to the CGM program Velorosa Cycling: Enter HITPLAY15 at checkout and receive 15% off an order of full-priced cycling wear at http://velorosacycling.com/ (velorosacycling.com) Go to http://feistymenopause.com/podcastguide (feistymenopause.com/podcastguide) for more information about the Hit Replay Podcast Guide subscription This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? *** Support the Podcast *** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) Hammerhead: Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit http://hammerhead.io/ (hammerhead.io) and use promo code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at checkout That's It: Use code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL to get 20% off your order at http://thatsitfruit.com/girlsgonegravel (thatsitfruit.com/girlsgonegravel) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? ***If requiring a transcript, please email amelia@livefeisty.com*** **Support the Podcast** Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) Use code livefeisty15 for 15% off at https://www.orca.com/ (https://www.orca.com/) Register for the 2022 Verizon New York City Triathlon at https://www.nyctri.com/ (https://www.nyctri.com/) Get a FREE heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit http://hammerhead.io/ (hammerhead.io) and use promo code UNPHASED at checkout Subscribe to the https://livefeisty.com/category/podcasts/feisty-womens-performance-podcast/ (Feisty Women's Performance Podcast )to catch our limited Title IX series!

Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? ***Support The Series*** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) Bonafide: Use code TITLE9 for 20% off your first purchase when you subscribe to any product at http://hellobonafide.com/title9 (hellobonafide.com/title9) Velorosa: Use code FEISTY15 at checkout and receive 15% off an order of full-priced cycling wear at http://velorosacycling.com/ (velorosacycling.com)                 Previnex: Use code TITLE9 for 15% off your first order at https://www.previnex.com/ (https://www.previnex.com/) Life Time: Register for the 2022 Verizon New York City Triathlon at https://www.nyctri.com/ (https://www.nyctri.com/)

Not to pick favorites, but here at Feisty - this is definitely a favorite. With almost 50 years of experience as an athletic director and inductions into seven different halls of fame, Joan Cronan has A LOT to say about Title IX and gender equity in sport. Graduating college in 1966, Joan was part of intercollegiate sports before women had the federal right to equally compete. This week, our co-host of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn Taylor, interviews Joan and asks her about what she calls "her journey." Joan shares the story of her life so far, beginning at the age of twelve when she decided she was going to create change for women in athletics. To do so, in 1972 Joan made a cold call to the president of the College of Charleston and left his office as the women's basketball coach, volleyball coach, tennis coach and overall athletic director. From there, she made innumerable changes to women's athletics that will forever go down in history. If that isn't feisty, what is? ***Support the Podcast*** InsideTracker: Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) *Until July 15th, take advantage of exclusive savings with 31% off your entire InsideTracker order! Go to http://insidetracker.com/feisty (InsideTracker.com/feisty) * Velorosa: Use code FEISTY15 at checkout and receive 15% off an order of full-priced cycling wear at http://velorosacycling.com/ (velorosacycling.com)       Previnex: Use code TITLE9 for 15% off your first order at https://www.previnex.com/ (https://www.previnex.com/) Life Time: Register for the 2022 Verizon New York City Triathlon at https://www.nyctri.com/ (https://www.nyctri.com/) Bonafide: Use code TITLE9 for 20% off your first purchase when you subscribe to any product at http://hellobonafide.com/title9 (hellobonafide.com/title9)

Usually, you just get one interview...but this week? Three! We know that many of you have been following the Unbound Gravel Races that happened in Emporia last week, so this week we were able to grab a couple of interviews from our friends over at Girls Gone Gravel, to air for you! Kathryn Taylor first chats to Heather Jackson who recently raced in the Ironman World Championships, and says that she used the championships for "preparation" for her Unbound race. Kathryn then catches up with Rach McBride, the first non-binary athlete to complete the 200-mile gravel race! But this is NOT ALL! Haley and Alyssa have an in-depth discussion with Ahalya Lettenberger. Ahalya is a professional swimmer, Tokyo Paralympic silver medalist, and undergraduate student. The trio discusses what it is like to juggle so many things at once, and how Ahalya feels about her journey to where she is today. Ahalya is known for her sprint finishes, and Haley asks her about these moments and the emotions that come along with them. Follow Ahalya on Instagram @alett19 Listen to the Girls Gone Gravel Unbound episodehttps://livefeisty.com/podcasts/96-live-from-emporia-kansas-episode-96/ ( here). ***Support the Podcast*** Subscribe to the https://livefeisty.com/category/podcasts/feisty-womens-performance-podcast/ (Feisty Women's Performance Podcast )to catch our limited Title IX series! InsideTracker: Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) LifeTime: Register for the 2022 Verizon New York City Triathlon at https://www.nyctri.com/ (https://www.nyctri.com/) Nuun: Use code STAYFEISTY for 30% off at https://nuunlife.com/ (https://nuunlife.com/) That's It: Use code IRONWOMEN for 20% off at http://thatsitfruit.com/ironwomen (thatsitfruit.com/ironwomen) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

LIVE FROM EMPORIA, KANSAS, THIS IS...Girls Gone Gravel! This week, we have boots on the ground in Emporia to welcome athletes to the finish chute of Unbound. Kathryn speaks to MANY pro gravel cyclists and gets the run-down on the peanut butter mud and deluge of rain that have defined this year's race. Speaking to Heather Jackson, Rach McBride, Amy Charity, Taneika Duhaney, Ellen Noble, Betsy Welch, and many more, Kathryn hears the ins and outs of this long-distance gravel race. What's on everyone's mind? Getting their bike washed and a beer in hand. **Support the Podcast** Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) Subscribe to the https://livefeisty.com/category/podcasts/feisty-womens-performance-podcast/ (Feisty Women's Performance Podcast )to catch our limited Title IX series! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Can you ever really get enough GRL PWR? In true Girls Gone Gravel style, this week we talk to another badass female leader, Alison Tetrick. Alison is one of the most elite female cyclists in the world. After a series of unfortunate crashes, Alison turned to gravel cycling, and was crowned the "Queen of Gravel". Alison talks to Kathryn and Kristi about her journey to gravel, and the way she understands female sports. Instead of a focus on herself winning, Alison emphasizes the joy and pride it brings her to watch other women win. A win for them is a win for her. The trio discusses how we can question the male-centric gravel sport, and build a culture that every woman wants to ride in. And, on a side-note, Alison shares her recent engagement story - which without giving anything away, is very on-brand. Follow Alison on Instagram @amtetrick **Support the Podcast** Get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (http://insidetracker.com/feisty) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Here at Girls Gone Gravel, we LOVE female founders. Especially those as funky as Emily Kachorek. Emily is the co-founder of Squid Bikes - a boutique bike brand dedicated to creating bikes that look “different” in an undeniably recognizable way. Prior to her endeavors with Squid Bikes, Emily was a professional road racer. In Emily's words, she likes to ride “all the bikes, all the time”! Racing with the US National Team, she competed in multiple UCI World Cups for both road racing and cyclocross. Kathryn and Kristi talk with Emily about her experience as a woman in the biking industry. Emily gives us a run-down of how she got to where she is today, and all of the “bumps” along the way. Follow Emily on Instagram @eekachorek Follow Squid Bikes on Instagram @squidbikes and visit their website at http://www.squidbikes.com/ (www.squidbikes.com) **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

This week on Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi meet with Denesha Snell, the Queen of the Short Course.  Denesha shares how her desire to improve her health led her to the cycling community.  Denesha also shares how she made her way to gravel after years of road cycling and the positive effect of how mental endurance has shaped various areas of her life.  Denesha discusses how she has learned to fuel and perform as a diabetic and bariatric athlete, keeping her health “in check”.    Are you a bariatric athlete?  Connect with Denesha through email at: denesha@deneshas.org  Follow Denesha on IG at @dfshockda3rd **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 20% off at https://info.insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty)  Zealios: get 20% off with code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at https://teamzealios.com/ (https://te) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

On this week's episode of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi sit down with Andi and Ash Zolton, co-founders of Roam Events. Roam Events provides the world's biggest women's MTB festival series holding events in Knoxville TN, Fruita CO, and Sedona AZ. Andi and Ash share the inspiration behind Roam Rally Demo Tours, a one-day demo event for ladies which includes a full day of group rides, workshops, & personalized demo experience. Andi and Ash also share how they are building trust in the space of inclusion and how “calling in” the cycling industry has multiplied the number of women in the cycling industry represented at their events. Check out Roam Events at:  https://www.thisisroam.com  Follow Andi and Ash on IG at @thisisroam **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 20% off at https://info.insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty)  Zealios: get 20% off with code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at https://teamzealios.com/ (https://teamzealios.com/)  This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

The creators of the 'Girls Gone Gravel Podcast' Kathryn Taylor & Kristi Mohn join us to discuss gravel cycling, Unbound, tips for first-time racers and veterans looking for personal bests.    Download or find links in your favorite Podcast App (remember to rate and review!) https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/consummateathlete    This episode is brought to you by 3 Month 100% Made for You Training Plans by Consummate athlete - These popular plans are made from scratch for you, your goals, your schedule, your gear, and your goals.  https://consummateathlete.com/training-plans/     Show Notes https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/about   Links to Our Article Archive & Services: ConsummateAthlete.com   SUPPORT THE SHOW WHILE YOU SHOP:  https://amzn.to/3Aej4jl to shop amazon   Subscribe to our Newsletter ->  It's free and brings the latest podcast, post and clinic/event information to you each Monday   Book a Call to Discuss Your Training - https://calendly.com/smartathlete   Books By Molly Hurford  https://amzn.to/3bOztkN   Get The Consummate Athlete Book - LINK   Follow The Consummate Athlete on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook    Follow Molly Hurford on Twitter and on Instagram   Follow Peter Glassford Follow @PeterGlassford on Instagram and Twitter   Past guests Include: Stacy Sims, Stephen Seiler, Simon Marshall, Frank Overton, Dean Golich, Joe Friel, Marco Altini Katerina Nash, Geoff Kabush, Ellen Noble, Phil Gaimon, David Roche, Matt Fitzgerald, Dr. Marc Bubbs, Christopher McDougall, Rebecca Rusch, Kate Courtney, David Epstein and many more       

On this week's episode of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi connect with Ajoa Abrokwa.  Ajoa is a Professor of Health Studies and Education at Saint Joseph's University and has led global public health and education efforts in Ghana, West Africa, Consuelo, Dominican Republic and Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  Ajoa shares how her passion for helping women find places they can thrive and be their authentic selves led her from riding a bike to become a cyclist, from duathlon to crit racing, and participating and becoming the first muslim, African American women to participate in the Dairy Land Tour. Join the She Is Focused mailing list at https://www.sheis-focused.com/ (https://www.sheis-focused.com/)   Follow Ajoa on IG at: @sheisfocused_next or @sheisfocusedand_fit **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 20% off at https://info.insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty)  Zealios: get 20% off with code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at https://teamzealios.com/ (https://teamzealios.com/)  This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Kathryn Taylor and Aimee Ross along with Anya Bruhin as host, kick off the 'Women of Biking in Arkansas' series in honor of Women's History Month  and talk about how Girls Gone Gravel started and ending up with the inaugural Gone Gravel event hosted in Bentonville at the end of April. The benefits such as empowerment, confidence and community go beyond riding a bike. Be sure and tune in for other episodes in the series and hear from Andrea Nevel, Lilly Outen, and Heather Hankins. 

This week Girls Gone Gravel hosts Kathryn and Kristi talk with Wellness and Adventure Storyteller, Author, Podcast host and all around badass, Molly Hurford. Molly is the co-host of the podcast, Consummate Athlete: health and community through movement and author of Shred Girls, a series and site for girls who want to have fun on two wheels.   Molly shares her experience racing the Outlaw 100 Oklahoma where she finished as the top finisher overall.  Molly also shares how the Babysitters club series inspired her to create a new genre to inspire young adult readers to cycle and young adult cyclist to explore reading. Listen to learn more about how to avoid saddle sores, protecting your lady bits, and all things chamois.   Learn more about Molly at https://www.mollyhurford.com (https://www.mollyhurford.com)  Learn more about the Shred Girls series and site at http://shred-girls.com (http://shred-girls.com) Listen to Molly's podcast, Consummate Athlete at https://consummateathlete.com (https://consummateathlete.com)  **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 20% off at https://info.insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty)  Zealios: get 20% off with code GIRLSGONEGRAVEL at https://teamzealios.com/ (https://teamzealios.com/)  This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi catch up with cyclist, professional triathlete, and Girls Gone Gravel podcast editor Lindsay Glassford. She talks about her path into triathlon and cycling, and how being part of the podcast inspired her to get a gravel bike and explore the many gravel roads in her home province of British Columbia. Lindsay opens up about her recents struggles with RED-S, and the three talk about how fueling your body for performance is important for all women, not just professional athletes. We hear about Lindsay's exciting new career plans for 2022, and the races she is targeting on her calendar for the upcoming season. Follow Lindsay on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/golindsgo/ (@golindsgo)  To learn more about the Gone Graveling festival and register for the event go to: https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/festival (https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/festival)  **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 20% off at https://info.insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty)  This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

On this week's episode of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Abi Robins. Abi is an amateur cyclist, enneagram coach, and an advocate for trans, queer & non-binary rights. Abi identifies as non-binary, and was the winner of the non-binary category at Unbound Gravel in 2021, just one year after purchasing their first bike. Since their win, Abi has found themself in the spotlight as a voice and positive example for non-binary cyclists across the country. Abi speaks about why they feel it is important to embrace this role and become a representation for other trans, queer & non-binary folks to see what is possible for them. Abi's mantra is “Bikes are fun” and they want to help to ensure that this statement can be true for every person, no matter their identity. Follow Abi on all of the socials @consciousenneagram and on Instagram for their cycling adventures @queergravel **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/feisty Ottolock: get 25% all products with code girlsgonegravel at https://ottodesignworks.com/shop/ottolock (US only)

On the show today is Kathryn Taylor from Girls Gone Gravel. Taylor is a former triathlete turned gravel enthusiast who saw a need for a place for women to learn, inspire and connect with a community in the gravel world. So Girls Gone Gravel was born. With over 11,000 followers on their Facebook group, it is obvious she was right. Coming up in April of 2022 Girls Gone Gravel will be hosting the very first Gone Graveling Festival which will take place in Bentonville, Arkansas. Kathryn is going to tell us her story, and more about women in gravel. It is really amazing how many women have become involved in the great community thanks to Kathryn's middle of the night idea. www.girlsgonegravel.com www.murphologypodcast.com https://www.patreon.com/murphology

This week Kathryn & Kristi have a special live episode with guests Aimee Ross and Scotti Lechuga to officially announce the launch of the Gone Graveling Festival that Girls Gone Gravel will be hosting in Bentonville, AR April 28-30, 2022. Scottie and Aimee are both residents of Bentonville and they give us their insider perspective of all of the great things the town has to offer. The four also talk through the details of all of the events of the Gone Graveling Festival, including group rides, skills clinics, parties, and much more! To learn more about the festival and register for the event go to: https://www.girlsgonegravel.com/festival **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/feisty Ottolock: get 25% all products with code girlsgonegravel at https://ottodesignworks.com/shop/ottolock (US only)

This week on Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and special guest host Alison Tetrick sit down with Kate Gates to chat about her business in the mountains of North Georgia. Kate is the co-owner of Mulberry Gap Adventure Base Camp, an outdoor paradise nestled in the woods outside of Ellijay, GA. The facility provides its guests with access to hundreds of miles of singletrack in the surrounding mountains, and Kate and her family work hard to make sure every guest has the experience of a lifetime. Growing up in Florida, Kate tells us how her family, along with her future husband and his family came to be the owners and operators of the property. She also tells the story of how she went from occasionally riding a few miles on her mountain bike, to being the queen of the party pace and competing at long-distance cycling events. Kate describes exactly what “party pace” means to her, and how we can all find our own version of the party pace mindset. Learn more about Mulberry Gap Adventure Basecamp on the website: https://www.mulberrygap.com Follow Kate on Instagram @parypacekate **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** Joje Bars: get 15% of with code gravellove15 at https://jojebar.com InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/girlsgonegravel Ottolock: get 25% all products with code girlsgonegravel at https://ottodesignworks.com/shop/ottolock (US only)

This week on Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Pathology PA and adventure cycling enthusiast Nichole Baker. We were first introduced to Nichole when we heard about her epic route-planning skills from Jess Cera & Laura King (Episode 66). In this episode Nichole tells us about her own path into the world of mountain biking, bike packing, and adventuring cycling. Many of Nichole's trips are executed on her own. She talks about how she gained the skills and knowledge to empower herself to take on big solo adventures, and gives us her tips on how to plan your own adventure route, and also what you should bring with you for comfort and safety. Follow Nichole on Instagram @nicholekbaker **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** Joje Bars: get 15% of with code gravellove15 at https://jojebar.com InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/girlsgonegravel Ottolock: get 25% all products with code girlsgonegravel at https://ottodesignworks.com/shop/ottolock (US only)

On this week's episode of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Abi Robins. Abi is an amateur cyclist, enneagram coach, and an advocate for trans, queer & non-binary rights. Abi identifies as non-binary, and was the winner of the non-binary category at Unbound Gravel in 2021, just one year after purchasing their first bike. Since their win, Abi has found themself in the spotlight as a voice and positive example for non-binary cyclists across the country. Abi speaks about why they feel it is important to embrace this role and become a representation for other trans, queer & non-binary folks to see what is possible for them. Abi's mantra is “Bikes are fun” and they want to help to ensure that this statement can be true for every person, no matter their identity. Follow Abi on all of the socials @consciousenneagram and on Instagram for their cycling adventures @queergravel **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** Joje Bars: get 15% of with code gravellove15 at https://jojebar.com InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/girlsgonegravel

We have an extra-special episode for our GGG listeners this week; Kathryn and Kristi are live in Leadville from the expo of the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race. The duo have a full schedule ahead over the next couple of weeks covering gravel events in the northwest. They share a couple of their favorite interviews so far, and the ones they are looking forward to most. Then Kathryn catches up with SBT winner Lauren De Crescenzo just minutes after she crosses the finish line. Lauren talks about the pressure she felt coming into the event after her win at Unbound, and what it was like to win in front of a hometown crowd. You can follow the Girls Gone Gravel live coverage on our Instagram, Facebook and YouTube channel. **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** Joje Bars: get 15% of with code gravellove15 at https://jojebar.com InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/girlsgonegravel

This week on Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi chat with cyclist and tennis player, Kristine Johnson. Kristine tells us about how she went from tennis player to bike racer after meeting her now husband Steve, who was the Athletic Director for USAC. She explains how the community of feisty women that she met at cycling events prompted her to start her own women's masters cycling team. Kristine also speaks openly about the loss of her son Craig, and the impact that he had on the cycling community in Kansas. She encourages all of us to appreciate the sport and use it to create cherished memories with those closest to us. To learn more about The Hemi Gravel race go to: https://www.facebook.com/HemiMemorialRace/ Follow Kristine on Instagram @kjcolorado If you will be at SBT or Last Best Ride and want to share your story, email kathryn@girlsgonegravel.com **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/girlsgonegravel

After a week to recover and reflect on all that the Unbound Gravel win means Ian catches up with fellow Unbound winner Ted King. They talk about how the race unfolded and how Ian was able to take the big win. Subscribe to the BWB pod: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Zcrdvkgj9cJt37765UAhN?si=pSggnn7_QqqoSWz4AXKc2w&dl_branch=1 "The most effective training solution. Less Volume, More focus, Better Results.” - Ian Boswell https://sufapp.thesufferfest.com/#!/training-plans/1Q3dGGG59B

This week on the Girls Gone Gravel podcast, Kathryn and Kristi chat with former pro cyclist Scotti Luchega. Scotti is the recent founder of the Natural State Rock & Republic, a cycling retreat that leads bike packing tours, and provides coaching, lessons, bike fitting, and indoor cycling classes in Springdale, AR. She tells us about how their own experiences with gravel riding, bike packing, and endurance races prompted their move to northwest Arkansas to create their own cycling mecca. Follow Scotti on Instagram @scottilechuga and learn more about the Natural State Rock & Republic on their website: https://www.naturalstaterockandrepublic.com and follow the journey on their social media @naturalstaterockandrepublic Read the Velonews coverage of the battle to boycott Arkansas bike races at: https://www.velonews.com/culture/inside-the-battle-to-boycott-arkansas-bike-races/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=velonews&utm_campaign=20ec4538-5bba-488e-8b34-acdbc9c162fc Read the IOC Approved Consensus on athletes who have changed sex at: https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-approves-consensus-with-regard-to-athletes-who-have-changed-sex-1