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3 episodes with Jeremy Powers
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2 episodes with Jeremy Powers
2 episodes with Jeremy Powers
2 episodes with Jeremy Powers
4 episodes with Jeremy Powers
Jeremy Powers, the legendary American cyclo-cross cyclist, boasts over 90 UCI victories—the most by any American male rider. His illustrious career includes four USA Cyclocross National Championships (2012, 2014–2016) and the 2015 Pan-American Championship. Beyond racing, Powers has been a driving force in the sport's growth through the JAM Fund, a non-profit nurturing young talent, and Behind THE Barriers, a video series capturing the wild and passionate world of cyclo-cross. On the podcast, Jeremy shared insights into the unique culture of European cyclo-cross, the transition from road to CX, and essential tips like mastering tire pressure and skills training. He reflects on life after cycling, discussing identity, his role at GCN, and how now, within his role at WHOOP their wearable tech helps athletes train smarter. A true ambassador of the sport, Powers continues to inspire both on and off the bike. WHOOP Your health underpins EVERYTHING you do in life, and WHOOP helps you understand and proactively improve it through 24/7 monitoring. Go to join.whoop.com/Roadman to get a free month's WHOOP membership on me! ROUVY ROUVY replicates terrain, gradients, and resistance, giving you the most authentic indoor cycling experience possible. Explore, train, and ride with ROUVY—visit ROUVY.com to start your adventure today! And to get one month FREE use code Roadman1m 4iiii Powermeter The PRECISION 3+ Powermeter from 4iiii is a compact yet powerful unit & is packed with features that set it apart, including integration with Apple's Find My network PLUS It's got up to 800 hours of battery life.Learn more by visiting 4iiii.com HUEL You can order Huel Ready To Drink directly to your home, go to huel.com/roadman LeCol For amazing cycling kit go check out LeCol at www.lecol.cc Use code roadman20 to get 20% off your LeCol order The heart beat of our community & best place to reach me is Twitter Want to watch full interviews on video? Check out our new Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/roadmancycling?sub_confirmation=1
On this episode of the Muddy Mondays, we have a special guest: Jeremy Powers! Jeremy is 4x National Champion in cyclocross, won over 100 UCI races, has made a tremendous impact on our sport through his racing and media initiatives. Now, Jeremy is a dad, has a big role in Sports Marketing at WHOOP, and does commentating on Eurosport. While visiting the WHOOP headquarters, we got to sit down with Jeremy to discuss: What he is up to now? The biggest lessons from his career? What is he learning on performance from the top WHOOP athletes he works with in various disciplines? Finally, Jeremy shares his opinion on the current state of cyclocross and how we can make it great again.
On this week's episode, WHOOP Director of Sports Marketing, Jeremy Powers welcomes former Australian National Rugby League (NRL) player, Keegan Hipgrave. Jeremy and Keegan discuss Keegan's background in sport (1:48), the ins and outs of rugby league (3:52), Keegan's NRL career (14:28), rugby's culture around playing through injury (14:28), and Keegan's medical retirement due to concussion (21:46). Keegan shares his insights on navigating retirement from professional sport (27:53), the importance of implementing mental health resources in the NRL (30:47), his adjustment to retirement (34:20), and the importance of mental health representation in sports (38:19).Resources:Keegan's InstagramThe Keegan and Company PodcastThe Keegan and Comoany Podcast on InstagramFollow WHOOPwww.whoop.comTrial WHOOP for FreeInstagramTikTokXFacebookLinkedInFollow Will AhmedInstagramXLinkedInSupport the show
In this episode, Keegan sits down with Jeremy Powers, Director of Global Sport Marketing and one of the most impactful U.S. cyclocross riders in history. Built from two decades of experience and passion, Jeremy has raced at the highest levels in Road, Mountain, and Cross, creating lasting relationships with brands, developing talent, and inspiring a generation of cyclists globally. They explore the power of positive reinforcement, including how to react when faced with setbacks, maintain emotional dominance on the start line, and the importance of saying yes to everything. Jeremy reflects on his biggest career highlights, the challenges he faced—and the transition out of professional sports. His story is one of resilience, determination, and a continuous pursuit of excellence, both on and off the bike. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join us this week for a stand alone sermon with Guest Speaker Jeremy Powers. Missed the live? Watch it HERE. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decided-church/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/decided-church/support
Mountainbikers do it better as they say, so Besenwagen hit the road into the French Alps and is living the life in Les Gets. Being the last stop of the UCI Mountainbike World Cup in Europe, the small village is packed with all the big names and thousands of fans which celebrate the sport in a spectacular fashion. We parked the Besenwagen right next to the finishing line and are joined by XCO worshiper Georg Egger from Speed Company Racing, met rising star Puck Pieterse and chatted to off-road legend Jeremy Powers.
In which our hero talks s*** with Jeremy Powers from Zenspath 4 Button podcast.Jeremy joins me all the way from Panama City, Florida to chat about his favourite Records & Bands, his first gigs, a fantasy festival line up and as usual he leaves us a song for the playlist.If you're into video games and tech, all that good stuff, you can find Jeremy's website below and please check out his podcast.https://www.zenspath.com/The Records and Bands blogThe Playlist for the AgesApple MusicSpotifyThe Full ListRecords & Bands is written and produced by Rob Jones and part of The Lone Wolves CollectiveWe use Apple Music to listen to all the Records and Bands we bring to the show each week.You can support this show by taking out a subscription using the link below.Subscribe to Apple Music.Follow us on:InstagramFacebookSupport Us On PatreonThe Lone Wolves Collective - A new home for all our podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join us for a stand alone sermon with guest speaker Jeremy Powers. Missed the live? Watch it HERE. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decided-church/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/decided-church/support
Muddy Mondays are presented to you by SRAM and Rapha. We take you with us into this World Championships weekend. Maghalie and David talk about their own experience, plus hear from: The first ever RelayCourse creator Adrie van der Poel Sven Nys gives us his predictionsLucinda Brand on her bronze medal Junior World Champion Isabella Holmgren and 2nd place AvaThe mastermind behind the success: Robert Holmgren 14 World Cups with Sidney McGill and her dad Jeremy Powers on the state of the sport Mike van den Ham and AJ August: Toughest men on course? and more... 0 to 15minutes What does World Championships mean? 15:30 - 18:08 : Holmgren sisters win Worlds18:30 - 28:00 Maghalie's race recap28:00 - 33:00 Team Relay 33:39 - 36:46 - Logistics of flying home37:07 - 56:30 - Snippets 56:30 - 1:06 - Answering your Questions
On this episode of Running on Ice, The 357 Companies' Jeremy Powers joins the show to talk about temperature control for final mile delivery for everything from cannabis/CBD products to groceries on your doorstep. We break down the ins and outs of final mile deliveries with limited spoilage.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts
Agency owner and incredible human being Jeremy Powers joins host Jim Schubert to share the core values of his successful agency focused on education, personalization and excitement. He works to inspire agents to be the change we all want to see in our communities and create a legacy of purpose over profits. Quit chasing shiny objects and make a difference as a leader on this episode of Agents Growth Academy.3 Key TakeawaysPeople are looking for human connection more than ever since COVID. Use this opportunity to set yourself apart from all of your competitors.Focus on purpose: Identify and focus on your purpose and passion rather than just profits.It is equally important to create a culture that encourages team-building and collaboration.ResourcesWebsite: www.choosepie.comSendOutCards ProgramPurpose Over Profits Podcast Canopy ConnectHigh Performance Habits by Brendon BurchardSoundtracks by Jon AkuffFacebookLinkedInAbout JeremyJeremy Powers opened Powers Insurance Experts in 2020 with 10 years of experience in the industry. A focus on education, personalization, and excitement has resulted in his agency winning several local awards 4 years in a row while generating a steady stream of referrals. He desires to inspire other agents to be the change we all want to see in our communities. Jeremy has a beautiful wife Emily, and three amazing children Olivia, Chloe, and Judah. His goal is to create a legacy of purpose over profits.
The GOAT, the Godfather, 4X National Champion, star of Behind the Barriers, International Analysist, the voice of GCN CX, in this episode, we aren't short on superlatives as media and marketing expert Jeremy Powers gets 'In The Red'. JPows talks fatherhood, life after racing, the state of American cross, and broadcasting all while imparting some value career advice on our host. Don't miss this one! @curtisjwhite @jpows www.curtisjwhite.com
Hello everyone, welcome to the latest episode of The Matchbox podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Show host, Adam Saban, and Ignition co-founder, Drew Dillman, bring you an exciting episode today talking all things cyclocross. While Drew and Adam have both raced extensively on the UCI ProCX circuit, they thought it'd be fun to bring in a couple other cyclocross veterans including Ignition coach, Tyler Cloutier, and the one and only Jeremy ( JPows ) Powers. Stay tuned for some fun conversations and special insight from some masters of the craft. Also, don't forget to pickup your Flow Formulas products by heading over to flowformulas.com today. Use the coupon code “ignitionpodcast” at checkout to get yourself some endurance-sport-specific nutrition products like high-carb drink mixes in both caffeinated and de-caff, hydration mix, recovery formula, and more, all optimized for your specific endurance needs. As always, if you like what you hear please share this with your friends and leave us a five star review and if you have any questions for the show send those to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title The Matchbox Podcast or find us on Instagram and send us a DM. For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson @kait.maddox @tylerclouti @jpows https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/
In this episode of The MVP Podcast, Jeremy Powers, owner of Powers Insurance Experts, joins the show to share his story and the tips and tricks that have elevated his agency over the last 2 years. This is an episode you do not want to miss if you are stuck in the middle of what you should be doing as a young producer. Jeremy has a passion that is unmatched, and the things he is doing for his community led to putting the business on the books. Be the Jeremy Powers of your community! The little things make a difference. Episode Highlights: Jeremy shares his background and how he got to where he is today in business. (4:16) Jeremy discusses the two things he does to encourage his team inside the agency as well as the producers and agents outside of his agency. (10:39) Jeremy shares that one way that he finds work-life balance is by being able to have his daughters interact in the fun stuff that they do for the company. (17:41) Jeremy shares that the biggest thing that helped him to get to where he is today is a book called Rejection Proof by Xiao Zhang. (22:36) Jeremy shares why it is beneficial to imitate people that are better than you and doing great things. (25:32) Jeremy discusses what has been going on in his agency, as well as their achievements in being an all-organic agency. (29:13) Jeremy advises everyone that if they want to be successful, they should find something that gets them in the field and chase it. (35:52) Jeremy explains how he is blessed to be a coach and has been coaching agents, and agencies. (41:49) Jeremy shares that he always tells his team that he is never going to try to bring people into this business that are going to demoralize them. (47:23) Jeremy recalls a story of when he was able to hire a tenured representative, who told him how excited she was to work for his company. (53:20) Jeremy advises everyone to stop being their own worst enemy, and let go of negative thinking. (1:00:02) Key Quotes: "I tell myself all the time and I'm a strong believer that I don't want a penny more than God blessed me with because I don't want to be who he did not create me to be. I want to be exactly and authentically who I'm ready to be." - Jeremy Powers "I tell my team, I don't believe the customer's always right. I hired you, I'm going to fight for you. And I'm never going to try to bring people into this business that are going to demoralize you." - Jeremy Powers "Be the sun. Everyone wants to go towards the sun. Why not be the sun?" - Jeremy Powers Resources Mentioned: Jeremy Powers LinkedIn Powers Insurance Experts Reach out to Mitch Gibson
In this episode of The MVP Podcast, Jeremy Powers, owner of Powers Insurance Experts, joins the show to share his story and the tips and tricks that have elevated his agency over the last 2 years. This is an episode you do not want to miss if you are stuck in the middle of what you should be doing as a young producer. Jeremy has a passion that is unmatched, and the things he is doing for his community led to putting the business on the books. Be the Jeremy Powers of your community! The little things make a difference. Episode Highlights: Jeremy shares his background and how he got to where he is today in business. (4:16) Jeremy discusses the two things he does to encourage his team inside the agency as well as the producers and agents outside of his agency. (10:39) Jeremy shares that one way that he finds work-life balance is by being able to have his daughters interact in the fun stuff that they do for the company. (17:41) Jeremy shares that the biggest thing that helped him to get to where he is today is a book called Rejection Proof by Xiao Zhang. (22:36) Jeremy shares why it is beneficial to imitate people that are better than you and doing great things. (25:32) Jeremy discusses what has been going on in his agency, as well as their achievements in being an all-organic agency. (29:13) Jeremy advises everyone that if they want to be successful, they should find something that gets them in the field and chase it. (35:52) Jeremy explains how he is blessed to be a coach and has been coaching agents, and agencies. (41:49) Jeremy shares that he always tells his team that he is never going to try to bring people into this business that are going to demoralize them. (47:23) Jeremy recalls a story of when he was able to hire a tenured representative, who told him how excited she was to work for his company. (53:20) Jeremy advises everyone to stop being their own worst enemy, and let go of negative thinking. (1:00:02) Key Quotes: "I tell myself all the time and I'm a strong believer that I don't want a penny more than God blessed me with because I don't want to be who he did not create me to be. I want to be exactly and authentically who I'm ready to be." - Jeremy Powers "I tell my team, I don't believe the customer's always right. I hired you, I'm going to fight for you. And I'm never going to try to bring people into this business that are going to demoralize you." - Jeremy Powers "Be the sun. Everyone wants to go towards the sun. Why not be the sun?" - Jeremy Powers Resources Mentioned: Jeremy Powers LinkedIn Powers Insurance Experts Reach out to Mitch Gibson
What's going on guys, welcome back to another episode of Coffee and Van Chats on the Out of Collective Network. This week we chatted with CX Legend Jeremy Powers. We talk about his time filming behind the barriers as well as chatting about what it was like starting a Youtube [...] The post Coffee & Van Chats – E119 – Jeremy Powers: Behind the Barriers, GCN, Whoop, Enjoying life! appeared first on Out Of Collective.
The Tour de France is underway, and this week Jeremy Powers sits down with world class cyclist Lachlan Morton of the EF Education-EastPost team. Lachlan has raced in some of the biggest world tour events, but he's perhaps best known for some of his achievements in ultra long distance and uphill events. He recently set the world record in “Everesting,” climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest in just 7 and a half hours. He also rode the Tour de France route last summer by himself, riding 12 hours a day, sleeping in tents alongside the road, and raising $700,000 for charity in the process. Lachlan discusses his journey to cycling (3:42), going pro (8:50), winning the Tour of Utah (15:26), his charitable efforts (18:15), his WHOOP data while riding the Tour de France route by himself (25:38), recovery and adaptation (29:50), road racing vs. adventure cycling (33:36), and biking around the globe (38:08). Plus, Jeremy quizzes Lachlan on some of the WHOOP Data from the EF team (40:37). Support the show
Join us for a standalone Father's Day message with guest speaker Jeremy Powers. Missed the live? Watch it HERE. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decided-church/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decided-church/support
Orla Walsh's journey to professional cycling was far from ordinary. She was a self-described party girl who was smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day, but that all changed when she started biking to work. She quickly transformed her life and is now one of Ireland's best athletes, winning three straight national championships in women's sprint. She sits down with Jeremy Powers to discuss her journey to sport (3:13), her competitive spirit (8:46), getting into racing (11:28), her vegan diet (15:31), being a woman in cycling (25:06), how she uses WHOOP (31:08), her respiratory rate story with COVID-19 (32:29), rest and recovery (34:06), and the performance mindset (37:17).Support the show (http://whoop.com)
Jeremy Powers joins Matt Lieto and Sarah True to discuss his cyclocross career, his involvement with Whoop and how he gives back to the cycling community with the JAM Fund
Originally Broadcast 2021/12/17: Sean was invited to this show to share his thoughts on the Wii U, as someone who actually liked the console! Its the Zenspath 4 Button Podcast Extra Quarter Ep 23! Join special guest Sean "The Orange" Corse (@SeanOrange) & I (@Zenspath) as we talk about the beautiful disaster that was the #Nintendo #WiiU. The good, the bad, the memories, the games, the missed potential, & the legacy it left behind.
Bill catches up with 4-time US CX National Champ and GCN Commentator, Jeremy Powers, to chat about World Cup Rucphen, the US domestic season, the World Championships, and a whole lot more. For a limited time, our sponsor, Hammerhead, has an incredible deal: buy a Karoo 2 at hammerhead.io/tradeup and get up to $170 when you trade in your current cycling computer. Also, use the code CXRADIO to get a free heart rate monitor when you purchase your Karoo 2. Follow Micheal on Twitter at @landsoftly and Instagram at @yeahyouride. Follow Zach on Twitter at @theshoestar and Instagram at @zacharyschuster Follow Bill (@cxhairs) on Twitter and Instagram and the CXHAIRS Bulletin on Instagram at @cxhairsbulletin. Check out The CXHAIRS Bulletin from Zach and Bill at https://cxhairs.substack.com/. Cyclocross Radio is part of the Wide Angle Podium network. Please consider becoming a member. Go to www.wideanglepodium.com/donate to learn more and contribute. Check out and subscribe to the Wide Angle Podium YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/wideanglepodium. You can find Cyclocross Radio, and all of the Wide Angle Podium shows on Apple Podcasts if that's how you consume podcasts. Also, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, even if it's not the way you consume podcasts. Have a question, comment, complaint, or general inquiry? Hit us up at feedback@cxhairs.com, And don't hesitate to call the helpline: 405-CXHAIRS (405-294-2477). Need coffee? (Trick question, you do). Check out our partnership with Grimpeur Bros and the amazingly tasty Hello Cyclocross Friends! Espresso blend. You can get these flavorful and possibly magical beans here: https://www.grimpeurbros.com/products/hello-cyclocross-friends-wap-espresso.
Join us this week for a stand alone sermon with a Guest Speaker, Jeremy Powers! Missed the live? Watch it HERE. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decided-church/support
In this episode of Agency Freedom Podcast, James talks with Jeremy Powers, the Founder of Powers Insurance Experts in South Carolina. Visit the Agency Freedom Podcast website to sign up for our email list and receive updates and resources directly in your inbox every Friday morning.
In this episode of Agency Freedom Podcast, James talks with Jeremy Powers, the Founder of Powers Insurance Experts in South Carolina. Visit the Agency Freedom Podcast website to sign up for our email list and receive updates and resources directly in your inbox every Friday morning.
With the help of Alec Donahue, the senior coach at Cycle-Smart who has worked with some of the best American cyclocross racers, including Jeremy Powers, Stephen Hyde, and Ellen Noble, we dive into questions on training zones and whether we're being duped by them; beer and bike culture and its effect on recovery and performance; effective methods for transitioning to cyclocross season; 'cross skills; and weekly planning for time-crunched athletes. Duped by zones? This question comes from Brian Adkins. He writes: “Given that there are three primary energy systems— 1) ATP-PC, for very short efforts; 2) anaerobic glycolysis; and 3) aerobic—and that we now know that all three are typically being utilized, just in varying proportions, I'm wondering if we (cyclists) have been underserved with this seven-zone Coggan model of: Active Recovery Endurance Tempo Lactate Threshold VO2max Anaerobic Capacity Neuromuscular The polarized training idea resonates well with me, and I enjoy that type of training. So I'm trying to think through the ramifications of various interval durations for power that are above threshold. The distinction between zones 5 & 6 seems a little silly—aren't both emphasizing anaerobic glycolysis quite a bit, with more emphasis from higher wattage? Are the actual adaptations resulting from a 4x8-min @ 108% FTP really that different from a 3x4x1.5-min @ 125% FTP? It seems reasonable that central adaptations may relate to durations of a certain heart rate (e.g. 8-minute intervals averaging 90% HRmax seem important from Seiler), but what about the muscular adaptations, and how they vary in these higher zones?” Beers and bikes This question comes from Eric in Somerville, Mass. He writes: “Given the ‘beer and bike' culture, I would be very interested in knowing if there are any performance or recovery effects of alcohol use.” Transition to cyclocross This question comes from Colin in Colorado. He writes: “I have been racing marathon MTB and 100-mile gravel races this year with large volume and significant work around Lactate Balance Point or Sweet Spot Training to create high CTL numbers—for me that's around 95. What strategies should I employ to transition summer fitness to cyclocross specificity? Should I continue high volume in a polarized fashion while the weather is nice while focusing on VO2max and anaerobic capacity work during intervals? Is there value in still hitting SST or FTP in my lead up?” Cyclocross skills training This question comes from Megan in Westport, Ireland. She writes: “I have heard Katie Compton discuss how she trains certain ‘cross skills by repeating the same skill over and over again, at a faster and faster pace, until she is ultimately going faster than race pace. Is this a sound approach for amateurs? What other pro tips do you have for mastering ‘cross skills, particularly ones that involve quickness at race speeds?” Mapping out a week This question comes from Robert. He writes: “I typically have 10 hours/week to train. I try to spend 1-2 of those hours doing some strength routine work for maintenance. I tend towards a ‘polarized' model. I've been riding regularly for eight years so there's not a lot of ‘unknowns' in my overall capabilities. Like a lot of people, I am time crunched, especially when it comes to getting in a ride/workout of longer than 1.5 hours. That said, I can probably get 2-3 hours of training in a day a couple of times a week if I workout before and after work. What's the best way to plan this for maximal adaptive response? And how do two-a-days affect adaptive response with different kinds of stimuli?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here's the Zenspath 4 Button Podcast Extra Quarter 18 - "Jeremy's Interviews Part 1". These are some of my early interviews for the show. My first one with Dan Fontes with the Pacific Pinball museum, to Shane Bettenhausen about the then upcoming El Shaddai as well as a short history of his podcasting days, some Final Fantasy XIII-2 talk with Parker Sapp, a talk with Art Baltazar about Tiny Titans (with some of the interview being done by my then 10 year old son, Jeremy Powers, Jr.), Batman: Arkham City with Michael Elkind, Deus Ex: Human Revolution with Kyle Stallock, & Renegade Ops with Omar Woodley of Sega! Give it a listen! Part 2 coming soon!
On Episode 8 of “The Cross Section Podcast” I got to hang out with one a very influential filmmaker in the cycling world - Sam Smith. He was the creative mind behind a seminal 4 season series with Jeremy Powers - "Behind The Barriers" - as well as two long form documentaries about cyclocross - "Transition" and "Transitions 2" - which pretty much captured the zeitgeist of 'cross during the era of the U.S.G.P. and what many consider to be the high-water mark of American Cyclocross. His work has been very, very influential on me over the years and I've studied BTB, Transitions as well as his more recent work for Castelli which included his "Mindful" series with Stephen Hyde and Kaitie Keough. His work is patient, calm, beautifully shot with no special tricks in post in terms of editing which I appreciate a great deal. Today we chat with Sam Smith ... I think you'll like it.(NOTE: Due to connection issues, occasionally there is some pops and crackles in the audio. Apologies ... blame it on COVID.)Thanks so much for taking some time out of your life today and I hope you had as good of a time as I did with this one. Follow me on Instagram @dcmediahaus and also Sign up and download, rate and review and subscribe wherever you source your podcasts so you'll always know when a new show drops - it means the world. Stay Safe. And just keep pedaling.Content Warning: A small handful of curse words by both host and guest (but mostly by the host).
Have you ever talked with someone and thought, “Wow! I am excited for this persons future!” This is how I feel after talking with today’s guest, Jeremy Powers. He made a huge decision from jumping from a retail business to doing something on his own. This wasn’t easy, but he is thriving! His future is brighter than his past. He asks a few questions about business ownership, & what a new business owner should be thinking about. Listen to this episode to hear the answers to these questions!
Since it's the holiday season and we are in the mood for giving, we will be building a few "Best of TGL" compilations for you in the month of December. If you skipped any of these episodes, it's not too late, just go back in our catalog and pull 'em up! This week we feature Katie Compton, Jeremy Powers, and Jake Wells. Subscribe to The Gravel Lot. Social Media: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter The Art of Being a Pebble: A TGL Manifesto Support to The Gravel Lot on the Wide Angle Podium Network Book Your Hydration Consultation NOW: Use code GRAVEL15 to save 15% off everything in store. Be Free Ride Bikes: The best kit on the market, customized to YOUR specifications. Grimpeur Brothers Coffee: Purchase Viewer Mail or Hello Cyclocross Friends Espresso and support WAP today! Handup Gloves: Use code "PEBBLE$" for 10% off EVERYTHING in store. Visit The Gravel Lot website for our latest podcast, Real Talk videos, Bonus Content, shop, social media, and everything in between. Learn more about Undertipper and download their latest album “Y'all” at: http://undertipper.bandcamp.com/
Tom Hopper is a professional bike mechanic who has spent many seasons working with Pro Tour teams. He has worked with some of the top cyclists in the sport. He was Jeremy Powers' mechanic, helping him to 4 National Titles and many more UCI wins. Tom is the Manager of the Alternative Race Calendar for the EF Education First World Tour team, and most recently he is an Event Manager for the Non-Profit, Pedal for Alzheimer's https://pedalforalzheimers.org
Jeremy Powers is arguably the most successful US male cyclocross racer of the last decade, and after hanging up his pro racing shoes, he had a lot to figure out. This week he talks us through the transition, its' ups and downs, and what the future looks like for JPow. Visit The B Line Follow TGL today: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Subscribe to The Gravel Lot on the Wide Angle Podium Network and become a member TODAY and get access to EXCLUSIVE bonus content. Be Free Ride Bikes: The best kit on the market, customized to YOUR specifications. Learn more about WORX Powertools: Use code "GEARUP" at checkout for 15% off Grimpeur Brothers Coffee: Purchase The Full Schleck or Hello Cyclocross Friends Espresso and support WAP today! Handup Gloves: Use code "PEBBLE$" for 20% off EVERYTHING in store. Noxgear: Use code "pebbles" for 35% off your order Watch Unknown Country TODAY: Jake Wells' journey to the Dirty Kanza XL Visit The Gravel Lot website for our latest podcast, Real Talk videos, Bonus Content, shop, social media, and everything in between. Learn more about Undertipper and download their latest album “Y'all” at: http://undertipper.bandcamp.com/
As COVID-19 takes-over our lives, we get some time with cyclocross legend and GCN journalist, Jeremy Powers. We talk about Powers's personal situation in this tough time before digging into his transition from pro-racer to full-time journalist.
Molly Hurford has built her career with several aims in mind: Write constantly, race often, travel frequently and live on her own terms, mostly outside. While she runs her own brands, including The Outdoor Edit, The Consummate Athlete Podcast and Shred Girls, she also works as a freelance writer for many major outdoor publications. She's also the author of multiple books on cycling and nutrition. Her most recent project, Shred Girls, is a young adult fiction series focused on getting girls excited about bikes. It's also a website that features interviews, advice and inspiration for young female cyclists at Shred-Girls.com. Molly was a guest on this podcast last year where we went in depth into Shred Girls. Listen to that episode. In her spare time, Molly has raced almost every type of bike, from cyclocross to road to mountain at an elite level; competed in triathlons from sprint to Ironman; and currently spends most of her time competing in ultra-running races, where she often finds her way onto podiums. She was also the team manager of the former CX team: Aspire Racing that was the most professional CX program in the USA. Topics Discussed in the Podcast Molly's experience as team manager for former team Aspire Racing Best practices of pros like Jeremy Powers and Mag Rochette How to do a DIY photoshoot social media practices Blueprint: where to start how to budget, acting locally but thinking globally types of sponsorships and how to ask for money what to include in a proposal where to find the right contact at a brand how to build a relationship with media/journalists Listen Now Resources Get the Athlete Sponsorship Guide Get Shred-Girls Check out Outdoor Edit (Molly's website) Listen to the Consummate Athlete Follow Molly on Instagram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Ways to Give Back to the Show ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Miss an Episode: Subscribe!
Danny and Matt spend the afternoon at Fort Steilacoom, site of the 2019 U.S. Cyclocross Nationals. They caught the Youth Men 15/16, Women 15/16, Singlespeed Women and Men races and had a blast saying hello to cyclocross media like CXhairs, High-fiving retired pro and current GCN present Jeremy Powers, and getting a day-before-race-day interview with EF Education First Pro and South Sound local Logan Owen. Watch footage from the day: https://youtu.be/xeu8i9bVJt8
Jeremy Powers, a highly decorated and recently retired cyclocross racer, sits down at the mic with Steph this week to talk life in his first year of retirement from professional sport. They riff on the transition out of professional racing, and how his values and priorities have shifted as he embarks on his new career. Jeremy was powerful in his yes’ and no’s as an athlete, through the lens of optimizing his performance. Listen in to hear how he prioritizes his life now to optimize his life experience. He reflects on why it felt like the right time to retire, the joy in having passions that aren’t connected to income, and his opinion on the future of women in sport. Show Links: A fav podcast: https://www.whoop.com/the-locker/podcast-23-jeremy-powers-cyclocross-national-champion/ https://audioboom.com/channels/5008985 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/king-of-the-ride/e/55365159 How I build this: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i-built-this/e/51949855?autoplay=true Dinner with DJ AM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_AM IG to follow: https://www.instagram.com/kateplusfate/ Ellen Noble: https://www.instagram.com/ellenlikesbikes/ Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Powers Jer on the 'gram: https://www.instagram.com/jpows/
Jeremy Powers returns for his first chat with Cyclocross Radio since hanging up the toe spikes for the final time. This was a great opportunity to look back at key moments in Powers' career and also to pick his brain on the future of American 'cross. This episode is sponsored by CXISBOSS. For the best deal on FMB tires and much more go to www.cxisboss.com. Enter the code RADIO for 10 percent off your tire order. For the best deal in life insurance, go to healthiq.com/wap. Sign up for Whoop and get 15% off using code CXHAIRS at www.whoop.com. Thanks as always for tuning in. If this is your first time listening, you can explore the rest of our episodes here. Cyclocross Radio is part of the Wide Angle Podium podcast network. Check out www.wideanglepodium.com, listen to the shows, and consider becoming a member. Check out MTB Heat Check for the latest highlights and power rankings from North American cross country MTB at www.youtube.com/cxhairs. Please subscribe to Cyclocross Radio and all of the Wide Angle Podium shows on Apple Podcasts, if that’s how you consume podcasts. Also, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, even if it’s not the way you consume podcasts. To keep up to date, follow @cxhairs on Instagram and Twitter. Have a question, comment, complaint or general inquiry? Hit us up at feedback@cxhairs.com And don't hesitate to call the helpline: 405-CXHAIRS. Need coffee? (Trick question, you do). Check out our partnership with Grimpeur Bros and the amazingly tasty Hello Cyclocross Friends! Espresso blend. You can get these flavorful and possibly magical beans here: https://www.grimpeurbros.com/products/hello-cyclocross-friends-wap-espresso
Four-time cyclocross national champ Jeremy Powers discusses his recent retirement (3:28), what cyclocross is exactly (5:40), his path to becoming a pro (7:47), tracking nutrition (12:49), competing with a team vs as an individual (22:15), meditation (25:49), seeing a sports psychologist at the age of 17 (27:08), music as a training tool (28:44), "the momentum loop" of gratitude and positivity (34:14), battling back from a potentially fatal case of valley fever (35:49), how he discovered WHOOP (41:33), getting out of the red and into the green (44:23), sleep and recovery tips (47:37), who he's influenced and inspired by (58:34), and the Jam Fund he co-created to support aspiring young cyclists (103:34).Support the show (http://whoop.com)
Jeremy Powers, Anthony Clark and Curtis White join Tony as they breakdown The Ossian Giant, the first race of the Durty Bikes Gravel Series. After 44 miles and 4,400 feet of gravelicious racing, White took the win in a close sprint with Anthony in 2nd and Powers in 4th. Theses three heavy hitters talk spelling, living sleeveless, and White interviews Tony. For video of the interview check out our YouTube channel.
Spencer Petrov is the reigning U23 Cyclocross National Champion with Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld and a prolific road racer at the Continental level with Foundation CCB. He's also done several tours with the National Team as a Junior, raced in Belgium extensively, and has no idea what his CTL is. He's here setting up his season the right way with us in Wimberley, training for a few weeks before road racing kicks off. We talk goals, travel, concussions, off the bike training, his time with Jeremy Powers on Behind The Barriers, Worlds, racing for a paycheck, and a whole lot more... A special Thank You to Normatec, Whoop, RoadID, Cannondale, and Jakroo for making this episode possible! Tell ben@jakroousa.com we sent you! Try it for yourself first-> shop.jakroo.com/williams-racing-academy-2019www.normatecrecovery.com -> "TSE100" for $100 off the PULSECOME TO BELGIUM WITH US -> www.belgiumracingexperience.com/UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL -> and use Code "ECHELON" to waive your initiation feeIG: @williamsracingacademy / @noahspeed_ / @criwilliamsFB: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamsRacingAcademy/www.facebook.com/GlendasGuns/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/TheSecondEchelon)
Event overviews from Tony Sylor of Durty Bikes Grave in New York and Michael Fleishman of the Lake City Alpine 50 in Colorado. Episode Links: Durty Bikes Gravel Series New York Instagram: @onceagainracing Web Site: www.ridelcc.com Podcast: http://packchatter.libsyn.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/durtybikes/ Lake City Alpine 50 Colorado Website: http://www.lakecityalpine50.com/ Instagram @lakecityalpine50 Automagic transcription below, please forgive any errors: Durty Bikes Gravel Series Alright, Tony, welcome to the show. Thank you man. Thanks for having me on. I'm excited to have someone from New York talking to us about east coast gravel and definitely want to learn more about the dirty bike gravel series. Yeah, absolutely. East Coast, gravels a lot of fun and I'm excited to kind of compare notes because I haven't done anything out west and I listened to your show all the time and been hearing about different events out there. So kind of a cool set up there. Right on. Well, just to start out, let's learn a little bit more about you. How did you come to the sport of gravel cycling? Um, I guess, uh, I'm a roadie first, so I think that's kind of the angle that I come at from, um, but uh, I was never an elite racer by any means. I'm just sort of a weekend warrior who likes racing his bike, so, you know, I've done mountain races in cross races and all that kind of stuff. Um, but definitely started in, in the road scene and I think that's a little reflective in the events we put on for sure. And were you guys producing road events or other events? Cyclocross previously? Um, we were producing a crits before we did gravel, but we didn't start too much before we started with gravel. We kind of started those simultaneously. So we do a calendar of have to gravel races that's paired with a third for gravel series and then we do a summer event in July. That's two criterium, races and uh, Fondo that will have a gravel option a as well this year. And we've, we've put on road races in the past too. So we've kind of done a little bit of all of it. Yeah, it was interesting in that when we were corresponding over email, I could see you guys definitely we're slotting in gravel across like an entire calendar year that included these different disciplines that it's kind of interesting because out here, you know, a lot of the gravel events just happened in the summertime and it, it's, you know, who cares if there's a great road race going on that same weekend, but you've seemed to have taken that to heart to make it so that someone who just likes all aspects of the sport can get out there throughout the year and participate in your events. Yeah, there's definitely a wide spectrum and more gravel racist popping up for sure. Especially in New York state. Um, we started very early in the spring, uh, as sort of what we call the traditional American style spring classics, um, meaning that, you know, in, in Europe they're racing cobbles and in the US we got dirt. So let's race dirt, but let's do it from sort of a road race perspective. And that's not something we came up with. But really for me is something that was sort of modeled off of what baton kill used to do when they were, when they were at UCI race in the way they kind of pioneered that. And we still kind of stick to that with the gravel race series. It's early in the year. We have really hard cold winters. We're in the middle of a really, really nasty cold spell right now. I'm so early April or mid April. A lot of people haven't been ride much. The conditions can still be really cold. We can still have snow. Um, so those early nasty weather kind of things are what makes the racing sorta gnarly. Whereas the may be more a ride oriented stuff like we do in, in July is when the were better weather comes around in those first years, like five years ago. Were you seeing kind of your rowdy friends? You might have had a cyclocross bike in the garage that is their winter bike. Was that, that sort of bike that they were pulling out at the time? Yeah, kind of. Um, and even before that, the second race of the series that, that I put on the first two races of the series, the second race of the series predates me by, I don't know, probably five, four or five years. Um, and I did that race several times before I took it over when the guys just couldn't do it anymore. But even when I was doing it first in like maybe 2010 maybe it was the first time I did it, it was a lot of a hardtail mountain bikes. Um, I actually did it on a full suspension mountain bike, which was a terrible decision. Um, it was a miserable hard ride for, for that kind of setup. I was like, when I got done, I was like, I'm never doing this again. And then the next couple of years I did it on a cross bike and I was like, okay, yeah, this is a lot more fun. Um, but at that phase it was a lot of hard tail mountain bikes. There weren't a lot of racers really doing it, like a lot of road racers and cross racers weren't really involved in it. It was more of a sort of a mountain bike ride, adventure ride kind of thing. And then as cross continued to get popular, it's very popular where we are. Um, and as some of the early season road races kind of started to dwindle off, we started to get in more cross racers and more road racers and now we're seeing more of that sort of gravel race setup that we're at right now. But it definitely started with that for the road guys, for sure. That makes a ton of sense. And have you seen over the course of the last four or five years ago an evolution in the types of bikes that are showing up at the event? Oh yeah. Without a doubt. Um, it was definitely, like I said, at first it was kind of a lot of hard tail mountain bike. Had some cross bikes mixed in and you'd see, you know, those hard tails finishing in the top of the race. Whereas I don't think you would see that anymore, certainly not in the elite categories, although there's still some people that are riding them and enter plenty fast on them. Um, but you're seeing more people experimenting with, with bigger tires, you know, a lot of it was sort of a traditional across setup is what guys were bringing, I think when they first started, uh, now they're experimenting maybe with little wider tires than what they would run across. We have fat by categories, so there's people who are doing the whole series on fat bikes, so it's a pretty wide variety of, of different bikes setups. And I think that's part of the draw of gravel racing, especially for those people that are real tech oriented. Is there kind of like I can play with this and play with that and going a lot of different directions for their personal setups. Right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think that's one of the things that drove the inception of the gravel ride podcast, which just that constant analysis of what bike should I be getting to get into the sport of gravel? And as we talked about earlier, I'm, I'm definitely curious to talk about east coast versus West Coast for me, you know, we ended up with a lot of more mountain bike style trails in Marine county, so a lot of sustained climbing, big descents. So for me as I got into the sport and it was really natural that I went to a wider tire, but I'm not convinced that that would have been the same journey I would have if I was riding out of the east coast where I grew up. Yeah, I think that you're seeing probably a for are certainly for our spring races. I'm a lot more narrow tires, especially for the guys who are really racing the sharp end of the race. Um, you had a lot of cross guys who were there that for them, what we're doing is not that technical compared to what they normally ride. So they might even run something skinnier than what they run and cross, especially the pros that come into race it. Um, whereas for them it's more about the climbing and the distance is a little more challenging on that end. Whereas the road guys, they might run something a little bit more because the, the, the technical stuff is a little more challenging, but the climbing and the distances less and from a pure race perspective, that's one of the things I really enjoy about seeing it is that cross section of riders coming together and it's Kinda like nobody's really good at this yet. And everybody sort of figuring it out like who's better at it, the gravel guy or the cross guys, the road guys, and they're kind of both coming together and, and have strengths and weaknesses. Uh, you know, in that they both bring. Yeah, I think that's, that's pretty typical of all off road racing and that you, you just, you're going to have sections that you're better at whether it's descending or climbing or technical switchbacks or what have you. And it's, it's interesting from a course designers perspective because you can kind of lean into those attributes as much or as little as you want. Yeah, absolutely. And so it depends on the available terrain and the type of available terrain for sure. And what you want to kind of showcase and what the format of the event's going to be. So if it's just like our summer event, we're looking at trying to are looking at that course now where it's not going to be a competitive race, it's going to be a longer distance and what we put on in the spring, uh, probably more pavement mixed in a. But for there we want to find like the most out of the way trails and roads and things that we can sort of incorporate because people aren't racing it. So we have a lot more flexibility in terms of where we navigate people and it becomes a little bit more of that sort of adventure ride when we're putting on the races in the spring. We've got Marshall's on every corner and we're really concerned with making sure that everything's really controlled. So, and we also want people to be able to safely race the aspects that we put out. So, uh, the course design and the development a little bit different, we also end up running into a lot more really thick sticky mud or sometimes ice and snow because of the time of the year. And that makes a big difference on what we can send people down and what we can't sometimes. Yeah. Given those weather conditions, do you ever have to reroute course parts of the course? Oh yeah. Yeah. Last spring, the first race, the series is this year is April 13th and it was the same weekend last year and we had a real late winter. It starts out of a ski mountain and the Ski Mountain was still open for skiing. It never been open that late in the history of the mountain. And it wasn't good skiing, but there are people out skiing, you know, it was that sort of last of the last skiing. So we had to take out a lot of what we call seasonal use roads, which are just roads that aren't maintained from typically November, first to April, first, depending on the, on the township. Um, which gives us, those roads are a lot of fun because they give us a lot of the real technical, rocky rudy, sort of more narrow kind of gnarly stuff. They're still public roads, they're not trails or double track or anything like that, but they do give you, especially if you're riding a skinnier tire, that more technical stuff. But with the snow, they don't get plowed there, don't get salted. So if it's still snow they can be under two inch ice and we had to reroute because of some of those issues last year. Right. It goes. So let, let's get into the dirty bikes gravel series a little bit more specifically. If someone was coming from out of town, is there a particular event in the series that you would point them to, to sort of really get that upstate New York experience? Probably the first one is where we frontload most, most of the event, the biggest one of probably the three M it's a at a ski mountain. There's lodging that's directly within riding distance to the start line. So that's always nice. We bring, uh, we have some good pros who show up. Jeremy Powers is coming to the race, we do a charity ride with him, a recovery ride with him the next day that we use to, uh, raise some money for junior development. Uh, we've got bands and, and parties going on around that weekend. So that's really kind of the, we make that sort of the big kickoff and kind of make it the big kickoff regionally have like winter's over. It's pretty close to over hopefully by then and let's get out race our bikes. Um, so that would definitely be the one I think if you're coming from out of town and that's definitely where we get most of our out of town riders from our at that point in the series. Yeah, it's nice. I'm going to be in around as long as you guys have been around. It's, you know, people start to get it in their calendars and look forward to that push to get fit, you know, so early in the season. Yeah. Yeah. And it's tough around here. I mean, it is, it's a, it's a tough time of year to be really ready to race, but it's kind of a fun way to do it too, you know, the old calendar and it's kind of shifted a lot is uh, used to have a lot more traditional road racing in April and I always kind of remembered just sort of dreading it, like I'm not going to be in shape and it's, you know, it's just really hard time of year to be ready to race. Whereas here it's still the same feeling, but it's also sort of a let's go out and kind of get my button gear and get me ready for the rest of the season too. So you have a kind of a mix approach there. Yeah, it was, it was really interesting when I first moved to California because there's really no off season here. People seem to, people seem to be flying from January all the way through December because the weather's decent, you know, we certainly have our rainy season, but at the end of the day you can still be going out and doing these long rides where I know from living on the East Coast in New Jersey and Massachusetts, like you had to have an off season because you just simply couldn't be out all winter long for the most part. Yeah, for sure. I mean def definitely fat bikes have helped with that. I'm more guys are riding those and writing stumbled, build trails and things like that. But. And it was like negative 20 the last three days here. You know, nobody's outside really doing any miles. Everybody's on the trainers and inside or just kind of taking the time off. Right. And I think you alluded to this. Do you shift the length and duration of your events, making them longer in the summertime to kind of account for, hey, no one wants to be out there in a super cold weather for, you know, four or five hours. Yeah, absolutely. Our race series in the spring, the dirty book series, the races are a anywhere from, I mean we have to really short beginner distances that are 18 to 20 miles and then the elite and intermediate distances will be anywhere from 35 to 55 partially because it is cold and sometimes it's, it's 38 degrees and raining and nobody wants to be out to do 100 miles doing that and partially because if people aren't artists fit yet and because we do it as a series, we want people to be able to come back for a couple of weekends in a row and not sort of crushed themselves with just one big ride early. Whereas when we get to July we'll do a 100 miles and you know, 6,000 feet, 7,000 feet and make it more of an all day kind of thing and if anything there, you're just kind of concerned with keeping people hydrated and out of the heat and not worried about those really cold temperatures or that really early season fitness. Yeah. The logistics just shift in terms of what you're concerned about. Right? Absolutely. Imagine while his give hats off to promoters because I think it's, it's a hard job that you do, but I think it's also really fun being able to design the courses and see how people react to the different features that you put there. Yeah, that's, that's always the most fun part about it and a lot of the races and the rides that we're doing or about rides in courses that my friends and I do all the time and it's just kinda like, you know, come check out this cool road or this section that we love to do in training that we can kind of show people. Are you ending up hitting singles track sections in some of your roots? No, no. We keep everything on, on public roads. Um, just those seasonal use roads are the only places where we would bring in any which way it gets a little technical and definitely that time of year it can be a little dicey for the summer one. I don't know if we'll have any actual single track mixed in, but we'll play with a little bit more of those kind of stumbled beal trails. And things like that, um, that aren't as hindered by the restrictions of kind of running it more like a race. Yeah. I'm trying to get sort of in, in talking to event organizers all around the country trying to get a little bit more of a gauge of the amount of single track double and fire roads that are put into the event versus county roads and just under-maintained roads. And it certainly is location dependent. Um, but it does play a big role in bike selection. Entire selection obviously. Yeah, absolutely. And I wonder too about format because I know and maybe you could tell me what you're seeing out west around us. You know, a lot of people are doing that sort of. It's not really a race, it's more of an adventure ride kind of thing with grandma, which is cool. And like I said, that's what we're going to do in July. Whereas, you know, we structured categories and really kind of functioning as a real, almost a replacement for what road racing has kind of dwindled on as well as maybe sort of a progress and making it more open and more inclusive than road racing has ever been, but still fitting that niche as well. Um, and I'm wondering how many events that are still doing that race under, including that single track and that kind of stuff? Yeah, I would definitely say that judging from what I've seen on your site, your more structured than the events I tend to participate in, in California. It's, they're generally mass start kind of winner takes all. So you're lining up against the likes of Ted King and everybody else at the start line and they had go and everybody's off. A couple of unique ones that we've seen out here would be kind of strava based reporting. Uh, so there's just sections. So the idea being to encourage, um, racers to, you know, enjoy the camaraderie of the ride and only focus on being super intense during, for limited sections I think. I think that's kind of an interesting format. A lot of the events I've done in, in lieu of any cash prizes for example, they'll just do a straight up raffle afterwards instead of giving the winter anything per se. I know like this year I interviewed the guys over at steamboat gravel and they're putting a big cash purse out there for the men's and women's winter and it's interesting and I'm a bit torn because I personally have enjoyed the more adventure element of it. I have no problem with the, you know, the top 15 percent of people racing their asses off, but I know that's not really a world that I'm going to be participating in per se. So I like the events to make sure that the mid pack is fun. Right? Yeah. And that's definitely for. I think we, we hit that with our races, uh, in the sense that we group our racers, so we'll do, we have an elite field, we have an intermediate field of sport field and then we also have masters and junior fields. There's no licenses required. So you can place yourself wherever you kind of want to be, but that way if you're going to race your group with somebody, a group that's, that's closer to your ability. Uh, we don't, we don't put a ton cash in any of it. I'm not huge into cash for amateur racing. We put some cash in the series just on the elite end to try to discourage anybody from sandbagging and picking up cash in the lower categories, especially without a, a category or a restriction. I'm putting those into, like I said, it's, it's hard writing. So even the people who aren't concerned with winning the race, they're racing there, they're trying to finish the course, they're racing against themselves, they're racing against the course or against the group that they fall in with at any particular time, um, as opposed to just kind of enjoying the scenery that time of year all the time. Whereas the summer event, we look maybe more at that end. Yeah. I think the idea of the day being an adventure and taxing no matter what or where your practice, whether you're in the front or the back. I think that's one of those university activities of gravel racing and rides that makes it great. You know, you're, you're just out there to test your mettle if so, to speak and have a good time. Right. And that's what we want to bring in as well. Keeping note the road race kind of aspect going as well because if you go to a road race, you know, and you get dropped in the first whatever, couple of miles, it's not a challenge to go out and finish that as a beginner, maybe 25 mile course or is even an intermediate rider, that 50 mile course, they're usually not like, oh, I can't believe I made it through that. You could go do that right anytime you want. It's more about did I keep up with the group or not and if I didn't keep up with the group, I didn't really enjoy it or I got to work to come back to do that and there's people who want to do that and that's awesome, but it makes it a lot less inclusive. Whereas the gravel racing just finishing the course is hard and the groups get so spread out, you end up with a group instead of just sort of being dropped by that big pack, but at the same time that front of the race can still race and get that road race feel that that group wants, so it's kind of a nice sort of in between ground that gets big groups of riders out together putting on an event. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see over time whether gravel becomes an entry point for other elements of the sport. Like at this point we're obviously in on the gravel side, we're drawing from other disciplines. We're bringing new riders in there, buying new equipment, but we are seeing people buy gravel bikes as their first performance bike and entering gravel events as the first organized cycling event they've ever tried. I think it's probably likely that, you know, over the next decade we're going to start to see great road racers and great mountain bike racers who got their start strictly in gravel. Yeah, I agree. I think you'll definitely see you see that especially as more road bikes are coming with disc brakes anyway, so the difference between a gravel bike and a road bike might just be the tire you put on that day. So you get a really, you know, a lot of versatility there as people are buying new bikes. So if people want to find out more about the series a, what's the best place to find out? You could register on bikereg.com or you can check out our website at Ryde, LCC.com. And if you click on the dirty bikes link there, there's a breakdown of the races and the dates and all that good stuff. Sweet. Well I'll make sure to put all those links in the show notes and encourage everybody to check it out. The series has been around for quite some time, so I know Tony and the crew over there put on a good day out. So if you're in the area or making a trip to New York, definitely put these on your calendar for next year or this year I should say. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, man. Cool. Right on. Thanks Tony. Thank you. Welcome to the podcast, Michael. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. Lake City Alpine 50 Yeah, great. I'm excited to dig into the Lake City Alpine 50. It's an inaugural event this year and I'd love to start out by just understanding a little bit about you and your cycling background and your motivation to bring an event to lake city. Yeah, so my, my history started in Tucson, Arizona. I'm a, I'm a Tucson native. It's my, uh, it's my full time residents, but I have spent many, many years in Lake City, primarily is just a summer visitor, uh, you know, 30 years ago, uh, started with uh, uh, a Jms Dakota, a hardtail hardtail. How about fully rigid a bike and uh, just uh, uh, you know, just exploring a, the desert on a, on a mountain bike. Uh, I went to Undergrad in boulder, which really sort of jump started my, uh, love and desire to just be outside and, and really, um, to, to explore, uh, mountain biking in a community that, uh, clearly is a, uh, all things outdoors. Uh, I went to the 1990 world mountain bike championships and slept in my truck and watched as a John Tomac came ripping by with his crazy disc wheel, uh, only to crash on course and watches a net over and took the world championships. So a long history of, uh, of, of mountain biking and road biking, uh, you know, started about 10, 12 years ago. Was that world championships in Durango, Colorado, if I recall correctly. Yeah, that's exactly right. Amazing. Amazing days. It's, it's remarkable. I suppose it's a sign of my age, how many people I talked to who kind of were coming up through mountain biking at that time and uh, you know, how we're sort of resurfacing now that gravels taking hold over the world. Yeah. And I, and I, it's a, it's a wonderful thing. Uh, you know, the, I, I've, I've found, you know, I'm what, 46 years old, uh, but what I'm finding is, is my desire to be on the road is, is waning considerably. As I watched cars veer to the right as they're, they're texting, uh, you know, get the notion of a untouched gravel back country roads is, it was appealing to pretty much everybody. Yeah, I think it's unquestionable that we live in a lot more dangerous time when it comes to just the volume of traffic and certainly the unfortunate nature of distracted driving. Agreed. So, uh, I was looking at the map. I'm, you know, I lived in boulder myself and traveled around to some of the mountain bike races back when I lived there, but I'd never been to lake city. And can you describe for listeners where it's located? Yeah. So Lake City is, is not something that you're going to discover just driving most of the major byways of, of Colorado. It's a, it's, it's smack dab in the middle of the San Juan's. It's surrounded by five slash 15 or sorry, five 14,000 foot peaks and then sits it incredible elevation of a just above almost 8,700 feet. It's a south of Gunnison, probably 55 miles, I don't know, three hours north east of Durango. And I'm about an hour and a half south of crested butte and as the crow flies directly to the, to the east of telluride, but it's, it's not, it's not an obvious or an easy place to get to. And it's a small town. There's only probably 400 year round residents. Yeah, it's interesting. I think that's the profile of a number of towns that have become epicenters for gravel cycling. Yeah. And it makes sense. Uh, you know, there's a lot of, um, uh, the amazing thing about Lake City, it sits in it. It's the only city in Hinsdale county, which I believe is the smallest county in the lower 48, if I remember correctly, and a 98 percent of the land in Hinsdale County is public. Uh, so there, there's an incredible amount of, uh, you know, forest service, blm roads, uh, that, that people can explore there. That's great. I love when people are taking initiatives to bring events to communities they know that are off the beaten path. It, it very much reminds me, my early days in mountain biking where I would just sign up for something to go somewhere that I'd never been before and explore what I can only presume was the designer's favorite loop in that area. It's funny you say that. Uh, I, I remember, uh, racing in, in Aspen on the government trail, which at the time I lived in Aspen one summer and the government trail was single handedly my favorite mountain bike, a trail that I had ever been on, but I had a miserable Reyes broke my chain. I think I crashed and somehow lost, uh, uh, the, the, the joy that the government trail, uh, previously presented, that can be a mixed blessing. Right. So with your time that you've been spending in Lake City over the years, is the root something that came out of some of your favorite rides while you were there? Yeah. The difficulty with Lake City, I'm in mountain bike map specifically as a, uh, you know, you're, you're starting elevation is high and most rides are gonna. Take you up and then back down, uh, that we don't have a tremendous amount of, uh, have developed a single track the way that, uh, pretty much, uh, many of the communities around certainly crested butte or otherwise even gunnison to, uh, to the north have done. And so that, that's kind of. I'm never went Lake City to, uh, the mountain bike map. However, Lake City does have a gem of a back country loop called the Alpine loop. It's a, it's a connector of about 65 miles that starts and ends in Lake City with the loop. But I can drop you into Silverton and into your ray. A long been popular with jeeps and Atvs. Um, but, uh, you know, for those who have had the opportunity to write it, it, it's an incredible place to be. What type of terrain, if we could drill into the details of those roads, how under improved are they, so to speak? Yeah. So it's sort of, um, the, the loop itself against starting in Lake City and then looping around and ending a kind of goes out, uh, on a, on a county road, a county maintained road, and it's, it's pretty smooth and we would feel like a very solid dirt road. Uh, it'll be, uh, some of the quickest sections of the course as you head out. Again, county road 20 is what's going to take you up towards the top of a cinnamon pass at 12,000, 640 feet as you make the approach towards a kind of a real definitive section of the road. It, it starts to ramp up and, and the road becomes considerably more rough. I'm much more of a off road, a jeep trail to the point where, you know, if you're in a vehicle, uh, you would want to be in a razor or a four wheel drive jeep. And so, uh, it, it, as I said, it becomes considerably more difficult as a, as the miles tick off. And I would say on our course, uh, somewhere around mile maybe 15 is when all of that starts to kind of kick into gear. I'm just sort of scanning through the maps right now and looking at the elevation profiles and thinking about what that might like when I was out on the gravel bike. Yeah. And I, I'd be happy to kind of lay out the course, uh, is, is, uh, you know, your listeners would get benefit to that. Yeah. I think, you know, in any course there tends to be these memorable moments, whether they're by design or simply just the way it feels on the, on the given day. I'd love to get your perspective on what do you, what do you think when people are a year from now talking to their friends about the second lake city, Alpine 50, what are they going to say that it was most memorable about the course? Well, I think the thing that will stick in most people's minds is just how difficult the writing gets above 12,000 feet. Um, you know, there, there, there are certainly other rides and races throughout Colorado that uh, we'll hit that. Um, but you know, on this course you're going to go over, as I mentioned, cinnamon pass at 12,060 slash 40, and then you're going to drop back down into, uh, the animas forks region, an old mining town, and then you're going to climb the backside a towards engineer passed, which I believe is the fifth highest passing in all of Colorado at 12,000, 800 feet. The writing, uh, I think people are going to remember just how slow and creeping, uh, that climbing will be to the top of cinnamon and the backside of engineer and just how much they're there. They will likely be gasping for air. It's, it's, it's a lung buster. And then how will they feel on the descent? Obviously like descending off of high mountain passes is one of those things on a gravel bike that sometimes makes you wish you were on a mountain bike with a suspension fork. Just given the high speeds. Are a riders to expect, you know, wide open fire roads or are they, is it a little bit sketchy on the way down? Uh, there are sections that if you were, um, you know, if you were on a solid bike without suspension, um, I, I would, uh, I would be writing and saying, boy, yeah, I really do wish I had some form of suspension here or at least a wide enough tires to suck some of that. It'll be a bit chunky on, on the backside of a, a sentiment past weeding down into animas forks. And the same would be true coming off the top of an engineer. Um, I, I think that the, you know, the, the strong and gifted writers will, will navigate that course just fine. Uh, but yeah, this courses, it is sort of that classic quandary of, boy, what, what bike do I choose? Um, I've, I've actually only ever written it on, on mountain bikes, uh, from 26 full suspension to 29 hard tail too. Now I ride a seven and a half steel, a hard tail. It, it will rattle you. I think no matter what you're on and, and especially considering that you're looking at an approximately 15 miles descent off the backside of, of engineer leading back towards the Lake City. Yeah, that's perfect. I think it sounds like many, in my opinion, great grovel courses where you're probably going to enjoy it on the way up and on the way down. You're going to question your sanity from time to time when you're on a hardtail gravel bike, but at the end of the day, it's part of the fun and part of the challenge. Yeah. And one additional, um, you know, it's, it's a very small portion of the root or the course, but coming out of Lake City, we're going to take people up onto some of the recently cut a single track that heads across the small Lake City Ski Hill. It's probably about a mile mile and a half worth of single track. Um, and some tight single track actually up through the woods before dropping everybody down to, uh, cut a little portion around a Lake San Cristobal, which is one of the most just glorious lakes in Colorado. It's a, I think the second largest natural awaken all of Colorado created by a crazy slumgullion earth flow. Yeah. I saw some of the pictures on the website. I in the whole area looks spectacular. Yeah. It's, uh, it, it, it was like anybody who has spent time in the San Juan's, um, uh, you know, I think that's another part that people will, will, uh, just remember, um, is, is just what an incredible place to just ride a bike. And what, what motivated you to put together this event? Uh, kind of twofold. Uh, it turns out that my neighbor John Coyle, who literally lives in the alley behind us and lake city, he's a long time sort of summer resident to spent a little bit more time up there than I do. We both had sort of independently been a pondering this for a number of years that would be amazing to have a race on the Alpine loop and uh, we both kind of fumbled around for a little while on our own joined forces this past summer and just said, let's do it together and let's get this done. And, uh, that, that was sort of the genesis of our company called human powered, uh, endeavors. And, uh, as, as the name actually, uh, gives you an idea. We're, we're trying to bring a focus on human powered, uh, events to, to wake city lake city has a little bit of this tension between, you know, the off road community and hikers and bikers. Nothing that's not unusual in any other community, but we wanted to sort of, um, maybe redefine a little bit what Lake City is about. Wake city has a, um, one of the most storied, a 50, a mile off road, sorry, Fifty Mile Endurance runs called San Juan Solstice, uh, that you has cells out and has a very deep waiting list every year. And so we wanted to build on that concept. Um, and for the two of us, it was a little bit about just saying thank you to lake city. We felt that we have received the benefits of, of everything that that community has given to us, as you know, summer residents. And we wanted to find a way for a small town to add one more event to their calendar. I'm spur some economic development and to give back to the, the various, uh, community organizations that could use, uh, some, some funds this year, the beneficiary will be lake fork, valley conservancy, which is a, a, an organization that is trying to obviously protect some of the headwater regions of the lake. Fork valley has wake city, has a couple of rivers flowing right through it, right on. Well those are certainly noble motivations to create the event. And as I said before, it's, it's amazing to me when individuals like yourself and your partner decide to showcase areas that they know well and love because I think it just brings a lot of value to the community. So I know it's a lot of hard work getting this done and I wish you a lot of success in this first year running the event. Well, Hey, I appreciate you allowing us the opportunity to talk about, uh, we're, we're super excited and uh, obviously, uh, people can find, you know, the race at a lake city. Alpine 50 is basically the, the, the, the call, the call name for everything, social media and our website as well. Right on. I'll make sure to put all those links in the show notes. Perfect. Thank you very much. We're excited to get to the riders on course.
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Episode links: Rasputitsa Gravel Event Rasputitsa Instagram Craig Dalton: 00:00 This afternoon everyone, I've got Heidi Myers from the race name. I'm going to butcher, they have a great gravel event that's been going five years in Vermont. It's Raspustitsa How did I do Heidi? Heidi Myers: 00:00 Pretty good! Craig Dalton: 00:15 Well, I'm excited to talk to you. I love the state of Vermont and when you reached out and I looked into your event, it just looked really cool. I always like to start off the podcast by having our guests talk a little bit about what their journey was to becoming a cyclist and how they discovered gravel riding. So we'd love to learn a little bit more about you. Heidi Myers: 00:33 Yeah, so I've worked in the cycling industry for 16 years. I work my full time job that feeds my family as I'm marketing strategist for a Garneau. I've worked with the CO founder of Raspustitsa for many years. He was an outside sales rep and it was actually his decision. His name is anthony. He wanted to put on some type of event and that was six years ago now when gravel is a lot more new to the scene than anything. So we were pretty inspired by like the Almonzo that was the first event that really inspired us. d Craig Dalton: 01:16 And where was that one? Heidi Myers: 01:18 That is in Minnesota, I believe, what they were doing. And so we, we took a gamble and we knew nothing about organizing an event or anything like that. So our first event brought like 250 people and now it sells out at 1500. So in five years we've experienced some tremendous growth. Craig Dalton: 01:42 That's amazing. Tell us about that first event and what the course was like and going back six years, we're really talking about, you know, probably a lot of people riding on cross bikes and the early introduction of disc brakes into gravel bikes. Heidi Myers: 01:58 Yeah, definitely the first events. I mean I'll be completely honest and transparent. We live in northern Vermont so many months out of the year the roads are snow covered, so a lot of people spend a lot of time indoors trainers or if you're brave enough on Fat bikes and and whatnot. We actually mapped the course during the winter months and then a few months before the actual race we got up there, we were riding it and we came to this section that the road no longer really was that visible. So I had called Anthony, I was on course and I said, Anthony, there is no road. And he's like, what do you mean there's no road? I'm like, it kind of goes into a snow field, just ends like. And so he looked at the map and what, what he had designed, had a class 4 section of road and that's a section in New England that is not plowed all winter is not maintained all winter. So there is a road there. It's just becomes a un-navigatable in the winter months. So at that point we had already released the course and actually became our biggest or greatest mistake, um, because we ended up calling that five K section Siberia. I'm so every year there's a section called Siberia, which is just that. It's a class four section. And the great thing about Vermont is freaking Vermont can be many different things. We've had 70 degree race days in spring. We've had 40 degree race days with snow. So what that, what the race brings each year evolved on its own. You'd never really know what to expect. Um, when racing tire choice really becomes super crucial. And up to the last minute decisions class four. Yeah, it's a class for road. Craig Dalton: 04:09 And does that just mean like to the riders that it's a little bit of a mystery what they're gonna, what they're gonna encounter in that given year depending on the weather conditions. Heidi Myers: 04:18 Yeah, I mean it typically is a hike a bike, again, it depends on your weapon of choice. So a lot of that by category and so those guys are able to cruise through. But I mean we have some riders like Ant doing it on, road slicks. Craig Dalton: 04:39 And is that part of the course designed for you guys that you want to make it a very thoughtful choice for each individual rider as to what bike of choice is going to look like? Heidi Myers: 04:49 Yeah, and I mean those are questions we refrain from answering because it just depends on what type of writer you are, depends on the conditions. It really comes down to the last minute. I mean, the weather last year was fine. The night before the race it snowed about two inches. So it's really, it's really a last minute, call it a personal choice and that, that makes it a race. I mean, it makes it a race for everybody regardless of your level because it really evens the playing field. Craig Dalton: 05:23 Yeah. I think that's one of the really fun things about this idea that so many different people will have so many different types of equipment in their garage and can bring so many different weapons of choice to any given event. It just makes it a lot of fun. I think, you know, in the early days of mountain biking you saw that as well where there's just a ton of experimentation with equipment and whether it was different types of suspension or or different types of tires. It was all just who knows what's gonna work best, we just got to give it a try. Heidi Myers: 06:00 Exactly. Craig Dalton: 06:01 So that's great. So over the last five years you said obviously the race has grown tremendously in size 1500 person gravel event in for Vermont just seems like a huge event. What's it been like over that journey? Scaling Up the Organization of the event has become incredibly complicated for you and Anthony to pull off. Do you have a big team involved now? Heidi Myers: 06:26 We don't have a big team involved. It's still primarily just that. I mean we have some great volunteers and some great sponsors. I behind the scenes and I think we've been able to pull it off consistently just because it is and we, we honed in on every single detail and we always put rider safety and happiness and we've really come to know like a lot of our riders, like 1500 riders lining up, so I can't tell you I know them all, but I probably know it gets 300 of them really well so it's really become like a family event. Craig Dalton: 07:02 It's Kinda like coming out of hibernation, gravel cycling community and, and get back together and celebrate getting out on the road Heidi Myers: 07:11 The community has been really great to come be in. This past year we had Ted King and Allison Tetrick and Jeremy Powers and Anthony Clark, you know, just to name a few and they're lining up at the mass start so everybody's lining up together and it was interesting. Jeremy powers like lined up mid field just to make it a social pace for him. Craig Dalton: 07:37 Yeah, absolutely. What would you say from a percentage perspective, are the people who are really racing at the front versus people that are just out there for the adventure of it all? Heidi Myers: 07:49 Of racers? It's a small crowd. I mean it's probably less than a hundred that are really full throttle out there. We respect those guys when they're essential to our age that we have to cater to the people out there braving the elements and just trying to get through. So we do a lot of quirky things on course. We serve maple syrup in ice shot glasses. I'm so all year long. We've made shot classes out of ice and we served maple syrup and then so the rider can take a shot of maple syrup and then toss the glass without any environmental destruction. And we've done like a Specialized sponsored this wheel of death on course last year. Where you've potentially had to like sing a David Bowie song or, or chug a beer. Many crazy things. Craig Dalton: 08:44 Quick sidebar. How does one make an ice shot glass? Heidi Myers: 08:48 Yeah. So we actually have silicone molds of, but it's an intense process, like pretty much right. Thanksgiving we have to start. We've had to purchase ice chest freezers to pull it off because uh, you know, 1500 shot glasses to make in advance. It's every night and every day we're, we're making it. Craig Dalton: 09:12 I can only imagine. Well that will definitely be a special treat. Going back to what you were saying about the percentage of racers, I think that's, for me, that's one of the things I really enjoy right now about the time in which we are in the gravel racing scene as you go. When you line up with these well known x pros or current pros and it, you know, they're off the front and you're enjoying your race and at the end of the day you're all enjoying a beer afterwards and some food and there's just a great community around gravel cycling. Heidi Myers: 09:43 The community is amazing in all aspects in, at all levels. And I, you know, been in the cycling industry for awhile and I think, I think in the gravel you see that more than any other segment of cycling. Craig Dalton: 09:56 Yeah, I would agree. I mean, I know Vermont, for example, has a great history in the cyclocross scene and I imagine some of the gravel seen their draws from it, but gravel seems to have something special in particular about it. Maybe the length of the events or the, the uh, adventure orientation of the courses. I just think people tend to really gel and work together as a community to pull them off and enjoy the day. Heidi Myers: 10:24 Yeah. And encourage each other. I mean we've grown our women's demographic and our demographic pretty extensively. So for the past few years, like the 23, the price to enter is, it's not free very, very minimal just to cover our costs because we saw that as a small portion of our demographic and we asked ourselves like, alright, if you were already why wouldn't you be doing this race? And the easiest answer was cost. So we've grown that a demographic hugely. Then the women's. So we have, um, it's great, really supportive women's community that has their own facebook group page and encourages other women riders and we have Olympia and Leah Davidson's mom, um, she comes out and she prints the list of all the women participating for the women by name, says like, you know, there's just huge enthusiasm there. The race itself donates all of its profits to Little Bella is the nonprofit founded by Leah and Saber Davidson. Um, so last year we, we cut them a check for $20,000, Craig Dalton: 11:45 Going back to the race course. I'm super curious. I've done a little bit of mountain biking in Vermont previously, but, tell me a little bit more in detail about what riders would expect the types of roads or climbs or trails or the getting on single track in Vermont or is it more a gravel road riding? Heidi Myers: 12:08 I think we can claim it's probably about 90 percent gravel roads. There's a few paved sections just to transition riders, but it says 90 percent grapples. It's really rural remote areas. There's about over 4,000 feet of climbing and 40 miles. Um, so it's, there's definitely kills and it's up and down the hallway and then there's that class 4 section a which was actually part of mountain bike trails this past year, but sometimes that changes year to year. That's just this really challenging section, which it almost ends up looking like a military because people are single file through that section just trying to get through. And I mean every year the course changes. So we've done a cyclocross finished one year, a Siberia section was changed to spend five k one year and one mile one year. Craig Dalton: 13:11 Has it been the same style bike that's been winning the fast guys and girl category each year? Or has it varied in terms of what people are showing up with? New Speaker: 13:22 I mean it varies of what people are showing up with for sure. Um, it's typically always a cross bike, but you know, we have single speeds, we have tandem, we have mountain bikers, we have fat bikes, we have roadies a way across like. So we pretty much run the full gamut. Like if you have a bike and you have the will to do the race, Craig Dalton: 13:49 I noticed this year you've got a fall event as well. Is that new for this year? Heidi Myers: 13:54 Yeah. So it's somewhat new. So the first event we actually ever did was called the30 40 and had we did that in 2013 and this is kind of a comeback to that event and the new version. So we changed the name but, it's pretty exciting. There's 8,000 feet of climbing and there's a 100 miles. And there's a 50 mile route. So there's two courses. There's camp overnight camping available and Specialized in sponsoring this outdoor movie theater at the camp camp site. It's at this really cool to stay in Bradenton, Vermont called the Old Stone House, which was a boarding school built by the first African American college graduate. Um, so it, it's really like back to like Vermont's vintage roots and it's got that kind of feel and um, it's a little bit inspired by Johnny cash and we're working a zero waste policy for that. So every rider, when they cross the finish line will get a custom pie plate and a custom insulated milk bottle that they can go through the food line with. So there's no paper products being used because that's just one thing that we've tried to focus on as we've grown. Craig Dalton: 15:13 Yeah. I think all these, all these little things add up to make special and memorable. And the Nice thing about you guys been working on this for five, six years now as you're developing a reputation that every year people can show up and they're gonna have a good time. The flavor will be slightly different, but they know and trust that you've got it dialed. So if they're looking for a place to travel to race, I imagine this is a good event to target. Heidi Myers: 15:42 Yeah, definitely. Um, and there's live music at all our events. So that's of theme every year. Last year the theme was David Bowie. For 2019, the theme will be Prince. So you can expect to see some purple. Craig Dalton: 16:01 That's great. Heidi Myers: 16:03 Yeah. We actually had last year we had a David Bowie cover band, which was phenomenal the night before the race and then this year there'll be a Prince cover band. So, there's like a concert Craig Dalton: 16:20 Now for people coming from outside the region. What's going to be the best way to, to get into that neck of the woods? Heidi Myers: 16:29 Yeah. They would probably fly into Burlington, Vermont or Manchester, New Hampshire and probably have to read the car. We've worked with Bike Flights every year to get, you know, your bikes in and arrived safely and with, there's multiple shops in East Burke because they're home to kingdom trails, so they're really used to the culture and the bike traffic. Um, so there's multiple bike shops there that can receive your bike and get it, get it all ready for you. Um, but it is a little bit in the middle of nowhere, so it's like an hour and a half from the airport. Craig Dalton: 17:03 Right. So you better be ready for an adventure. Heidi Myers: 17:07 Yeah, it's an adventure for sure. Craig Dalton: 17:10 Well, I'm excited about that. I love learning about new events in different parts of the parts of the country. I think that's really going to be a fun part of the next few years in gravel riding, using events as a way of discovering new parts of the country and new communities. One thing we know, and it's been obvious to you that you know if I drop it in there or someone from the west coast drops in there, it's just going to be like the communities we have out here. It's going to be very embracing and fun and you'll find that the guys and girls that you're going to be riding with whatever section of the race you're going to be in and everybody's going to be helpful and fun and have a laugh and really looking forward to getting to the finish line and just celebrating the achievement of a good hard day out. Heidi Myers: 17:53 Definitely. Definitely this year. So we're actually planning on traveling to Dirty Kanza . So we've renovated an old school bus and set up totally wrapped in the outside. We're redoing the inside right now as we speak, so that should be our Gravel Travel machine coming through. Craig Dalton: 18:18 I hope you'll come to California. I'd love to see it. Heidi Myers: 18:20 Yeah, definitely. Craig Dalton: 18:22 It reminds me of a national mountain bike racing scene in the early days and a company called a Retrotec, had a school bus and I remember thinking that was great. You would see riders just basically hitch a ride to the national on that bus in an ad hoc fashion. Heidi Myers: 18:42 That's awesome. Craig Dalton: 18:43 Yeah. Yeah. Again, I can't. For me, it's so amazing to to remind myself of those days and I'm so reminded and invigorated in the gravel scene right now from those days because as I said before, it was so nice being part of the early days of the mountain bike community and I'm feeling those same sensations, which for me as a, you know, as a father and a husband who struggles to find time to ride my bike as much as I'd like. It's just little things like that to reinvigorate me to get out there and get back on my bike and put events on my calendar to get out there and stay fit. Heidi Myers: 19:21 Yeah, Craig Dalton: 19:24 yeah, absolutely. Well, I appreciate the time, Heidi today. It was great to get to know you and get to know the event. Hopefully some of my listeners from around the country can put it on their calendars for next year and get out there. I, for one, would be eager to try some of those ice shot glasses with maple syrup in it. It sounds spectacular. Heidi Myers: 19:46 Yeah. Cheers.
We launched the Blood Chemistry Calculator six months ago and have come to rely on it for our Elite Performance Program clients as an initial screening tool and measure of ongoing progress. With the input of 39 basic blood chemistry markers, the calculator uses a machine-learning algorithm to predict health status in 6 specific areas: immune balance, toxicity, metabolic health, nutrition, oxidative balance, and a general 5-year wellness score. On this podcast, Tommy and I are talking specifically about the Immune Balance Score, the domain that forecasts immune system health and inflammation from 13 out of the 39 input markers and one forecasted value (CRP). Tommy discusses these markers in detail, citing research that supports using them to predict health outcomes. He also shares ideas for next steps to improve functioning in the area of immune balance. You can now try some features of the Blood Chemistry Calculator for free by visiting bloodcalculator.com and clicking “Free Report”. Here’s the outline of this interview with Tommy Wood: [00:00:30] Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC); Podcast: Optimal Diet and Movement for Healthspan, Amplified Intelligence and More with Ken Ford. [00:00:49] Blood Chemistry Calculator. [00:01:03] Peer Review. [00:02:32] Immune Balance Score. [00:04:00] Dashboard of Blood Chemistry Calculator scores (example). [00:04:08] Predicted Age Score. [00:05:12] Who is the calculator for? [00:06:09] Building a health coach referral network. [00:07:05] Podcast: How to Measure Hormones, with Mark Newman. [00:08:31] Combining 2+ reports for longitudinal tracking. [00:09:08] Markers that make up the Immune Balance Score. [00:10:49] Sensitivity and specificity. [00:13:40] All-cause mortality: dying from any cause. [00:17:05] Evaluating scientific research: PubMed + Google. [00:19:53] C-Reactive Protein (CRP) > 0.5 associated with 75% increase in all-cause mortality; Study: Li, Yunwei, et al. "Hs-CRP and all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality risk: a meta-analysis." Atherosclerosis 259 (2017): 75-82. [00:21:10] Jeremy Powers; Podcast: National Cyclocross Champion Jeremy Powers on Racing, Training and the Ketogenic Diet. [00:22:30] Dr. Bryan Walsh - Timing of blood testing for athletes. [00:24:49] Albumin: less than 4 g/dL = increased risk of all-cause mortality; Studies: 1. Fulks, Michael, Robert L. Stout, and Vera F. Dolan. "Albumin and all-cause mortality risk in insurance applicants." J Insur Med 42.1 (2010): 11-17; 2. Proctor, Michael J., et al. "Systemic inflammation predicts all-cause mortality: a glasgow inflammation outcome study." PloS one 10.3 (2015): e0116206; 3. Lee, Won-Suk, et al. "Population Specific Biomarkers of Human Aging: A Big Data Study Using South Korean, Canadian, and Eastern European Patient Populations." (2018). [00:27:25] Gamma Gap (globulins): > 3 g/dL = increase in all-cause mortality; Studies: 1. Juraschek, Stephen P., et al. "The gamma gap and all-cause mortality." PloS one 10.12 (2015): e0143494; 2. Yang, Ming, et al. "The gamma gap predicts 4-year all-cause mortality among nonagenarians and centenarians." Scientific reports 8.1 (2018): 1046. [00:29:58] Table that shows reference ranges, scores assigned. [00:30:39] Ferritin - iron overload vs. indicator of inflammation; >200 ng/mL = 50% increase risk of all-cause mortality; Study: Kadoglou, Nikolaos PE, et al. "The association of ferritin with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in community-dwellers: The English longitudinal study of ageing." PloS one 12.6 (2017): e0178994. [00:34:20] Iron overload podcast: Iron overload and the impact it can have on performance and health, with Dr. Tommy Wood; Blood donation. [00:34:37] Podcast: Rethinking Positive Thinking, with Gabriele Oettingen. [00:36:31] Hemoglobin - higher = more aerobic power; Lower = chronic inflammation or nutritional deficiency. [00:37:27] Hemoglobin has U-shaped curve - increased all-cause mortality if too low or too high. Optimal: from 14.5 g/dL (13 for women) + 1.5-2 g/dL; Study: Fulks, Michael, Vera F. Dolan, and Robert L. Stout. "Hemoglobin Screening Independently Predicts All-Cause Mortality." (2015): 75-80. [00:39:02] Christopher Kelly’s combined report. [00:39:18] Fasting blood glucose: >100 mg/dL = higher all-cause mortality. Study: Bjørnholt, JØRGEN V., et al. "Fasting blood glucose: an underestimated risk factor for cardiovascular death. Results from a 22-year follow-up of healthy nondiabetic men." Diabetes care 22.1 (1999): 45-49. [00:40:57] Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW): ideal is below 12%; Study: Al-Kindi, Sadeer G., et al. "Red Cell Distribution Width Is Associated with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients with Diabetes." BioMed research international 2017 (2017). [00:41:17] White Blood Cells. [00:41:28] Eosinophils >0.275 x10E3/uL= increased risk of 30-year all-cause mortality; Study: Hospers, Jeannette J., et al. "Eosinophilia is associated with increased all-cause mortality after a follow-up of 30 years in a general population sample." Epidemiology (2000): 261-268. [00:42:21] Ratios between markers. [00:43:20] Platelets - High is associated with increased risk of mortality after heart attack; Study: Tsai, Ming-Tsun, et al. "U-shaped mortality curve associated with platelet count among older people: a community-based cohort study." Blood 126.13 (2015): 1633-1635. [00:43:39] Lymphocyte:Monocyte ratio; Study: Xiang, Fangfang, et al. "Monocyte/lymphocyte ratio as a better predictor of cardiovascular and all‐cause mortality in hemodialysis patients: A prospective cohort study." Hemodialysis International 22.1 (2018): 82-92. [00:45:23] Where to go from here? [00:45:40] Acute vs. chronic inflammation. [00:47:07] Antimicrobials: Monolaurin, Lauricidin, Selenomethionine; antibody testing. [00:47:40] Malcolm Kendrick Podcast: Why Cholesterol Levels Have No Effect on Cardiovascular Disease (And Things to Think about Instead). [00:48:51] bloodcalculator.com; Quest lab locator. [00:49:11] UK: Fibrhealth. [00:49:15] Australia: https://stephenanderson.com.au/nbt/; Podcast: How to Get Help and Feel Great in Australia Using Advanced Blood Interpretation, with Stephen Anderson. [00:49:38] support@nourishbalancethrive.com
Jeremy Powers has made a tear across the cyclocross scene. The most dominant racer for years, he's a master of his craft, and was crafty enough to start the JAM Fund to support development of cyclocross especially in his native New England. The ever smiling Jeremy and Ted sat down after the biggest fundraising event for that organization, the JAM Grand Fondo.
Jeremy Powers is a 4 time U.S. National Champion in Cyclocross. In 2016 Jeremy was the ranked 8th in the UCI standings as a Cyclocross racer. Jeremy was one of the pioneers in getting momemtum for Americans to go accross the pond to Europe and race cyclocross at the highest level possible. Taking his initiative a step further, Jeremy became the owner and founder of the JAM Fund Team which gives young riders an opportunity to receive the support they need to be able to try their hand at racing Cyclocross at the highest level possible. . He has had a long and prosperous career and in listening to the interview you will see why. Jeremy has always been willing to push himself to the limit in terms of how he races, who he races and where he races. If you want a good example of a cunsumate professional you need to look no further than Jeremy Powers. Enjoy!Promo Code for 25% off of Topical Edge PR lotion: UTMOSTPERFORMANCE @topicaledge.com
In this episode we take a deep dive into a subject that Case knows well, and that our guest, Lennard Zinn, has lived for the last five years: Heart arrhythmias in endurance athletes. Chris and Lennard, along with Dr. John Mandrola, wrote a book entitled “The Haywire Heart” that details how and why long-term endurance exercise could cause a variety of heart arrhythmias. We’ll detail the research, discuss warning signs, give you an idea of how hard your heart is working when you’re doing that set of intervals or running a marathon. And, of course, we’ll discuss at length the evidence that suggests there could be too much of a good thing when it comes to exercise. The topic of heart arrhythmias in endurance athletes is broad, multifaceted, complicated, and, in so many ways, extremely important to investigate further. We’ll touch on many of the facets of the issue in this episode. The explosion in popularity of endurance sports has coincided with the ability and desire of an active populace to strive for elite athletic achievements deep into their lives. Of course, that begs the question: Is exercise good for your heart? Undoubtedly, it is. In fact, it is undeniably the best medicine there is for preventing a host of cardiovascular diseases, as well as a multitude of other diseases. Its documented beneficial results would qualify it as a miracle drug if a pharmaceutical company could figure out how to bottle it. But even miracle drugs have a recommended dosage, and vastly exceeding it is not generally prudent. Can there be too much of a good thing? Quite possibly—as you’ll soon learn. In today’s episode, we’ll also hear from Jeremy Powers, who dealt with his own heart arrhythmia this past cyclocross season. He is among a growing list of professional athletes diagnosed with arrhythmias that continues to grow, and includes WorldTour riders, Ironman champions, Olympic medalists, and some of America’s most well known cyclists.
Spencer Petrov is one of the top U23 cyclocross riders in the U.S. right now. Petrov joined us to talk about his future after Aspire Racing and what he learned from his year of racing with Jeremy Powers and Ellen Noble. For more cyclocross coverage, visit our website at cxmagazine.com. Photo: Jeff Curtes; Music: Osiris Saline
Jeremy Powers returns to Crosshairs Radio to chat about the past year, Aspire Racing, fatherhood, the CXNATS battle with Stephen Hyde, the crazy Cyclocross Worlds track, rounded rotors and the continuing disc brake debate, and the future. You can follow Jeremy on Instagram at @jpows and on Twitter at @jeremypowers. Also check out Jeremy's goings on at jpows.com and more info on the Grand Fundo, which takes place July 14 at www.jamcycling.org/jam-grand-fundo. Check out Crosshairs Television for recap and commentary video from the latest (predominantly) U.S. UCI cyclocross events (subscribe to the channel, give a thumbs up and leave a comment): www.crosshairstelevision.com. Check out endurasport.com and get 20-percent off by entering wideangle20 at checkout. (valid in U.S. only) This podcast is supported by Health IQ, a life insurance company that celebrates the health conscious, including cyclists. Visit healthiq.com/cxhairs to learn more & get a free quote, or check out their life insurance FAQ page to get your questions answered. Thanks as always for tuning in. If this is your first time listening, you can explore the rest of our episodes here. You can support the show and this site by checking out our swag at www.crosshairscycling.com/shop. Also visit www.cyclocrossbook.com to get your copy of Skills Drills and Bellyaches: A Cyclocross Primer. Crosshairs Radio is part of the Wide Angle Podium podcast network. Check out www.wideanglepodium.com, listen to the shows, and consider becoming a member. Check out the new Wide Angle Podium t-shirts and kit at icksnay.myshopify.com/collections/wide-angle-podium. Please subscribe to Crosshairs Radio and all of the Wide Angle Podium shows on iTunes, if that’s how you consume podcasts. Also, rate and review on iTunes, even if it’s not the way you consume podcasts.You can follow the show on Twitter at @crosshairsradio. You can follow me, @cxhairs, on Instagram and Twitter. Have a question, comment, complaint or general inquiry? Hit us up at feedback@cxhairs.com. And don't hesitate to call the hot line: 405-CXHAIRS.
Fred Dreier sits down with cyclocross star Stephen Hyde to talk about his unusual path to the top, the weight of his national championship jersey, his relationship with an old mentor, Jeremy Powers, and a battle with depression.
Fred Dreier sits down with cyclocross star Stephen Hyde to talk about his unusual path to the top, the weight of his national championship jersey, his relationship with an old mentor, Jeremy Powers, and a battle with depression.
"There’s no question there’s static there," Jeremy Powers says of his relationship with former protegé Stephen Hyde. So how does it feel when the apprentice becomes the master? Caley Fretz sits down with cyclocross star Powers to talk about fatherhood, Powers' relationship with Hyde, and the little Belgium that is Western Massachusetts cyclocross.
"There’s no question there’s static there," Jeremy Powers says of his relationship with former protegé Stephen Hyde. So how does it feel when the apprentice becomes the master? Caley Fretz sits down with cyclocross star Powers to talk about fatherhood, Powers' relationship with Hyde, and the little Belgium that is Western Massachusetts cyclocross.
Hormetism is the application of progressive, intermittent stress to overcome challenges and grow stronger physically, mentally and emotionally. As athletes, we intuitively understand the hormetic effect of exercise but did you know that cold, altitude, plant toxins and even straining slightly to read can all be used to help us get stronger? My guest is for this interview is Todd Becker, a freelance blogger based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife and two children. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Philosophy from Stanford University and Brown University. Todd currently works as a staff scientist for a biotechnology company in Palo Alto, where he leads project teams and holds more than 20 patents. Not everyone will have access to all of the hormetic stressors we talk about in this episode. The important takeaway message is that there's more than one way to get stronger. Take advantage in whatever way you see fit. Here’s the outline of this interview with Todd Becker: [00:00:24] Myopia: A Modern Yet Reversible Disease. [00:00:53] AHS16 - Todd Becker - Living High and Healthy. [00:01:48] Hormesis. [00:02:35] Low-carb and intermittent fasting. [00:03:58] Going on holiday and forgetting glasses. [00:04:40] Print pushing. [00:05:02] Exercise. [00:05:29] Immune system. [00:06:07] UV. [00:06:13] Overcompensation. [00:07:28] Lactose tolerance. [00:08:35] Unnecessarily avoiding the sun. [00:10:05] Finding the perfect amount of stress. [00:12:15] Learning to fast blog post. [00:13:00] Heart rate variability or even just resting HR. [00:14:02] Cold showers. [00:14:43] Alcohol. [00:15:53] Metabolic flexibility. [00:16:08] Allostasis. [00:17:07] Wood smoke. [00:17:25] Evolutionary mismatches. [00:17:41] Is charred meat bad for you? [00:18:29] Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. [00:19:02] Phases of detoxification. [00:19:17] CYP3A4. [00:19:42] Superoxide dismutase. [00:20:01] Sulforaphane and Its Effects on Cancer, Mortality, Aging, Brain and Behavior, Heart Disease & More. [00:21:28] Low-dose dioxins. [00:21:53] Hormone analogues. [00:22:14] Gluten. [00:22:40] IgE emergency response. [00:22:50] An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases. [00:23:36] Peanut allergies [00:23:56] Karelia (historical province of Finland). [00:25:00] Reversing peanut allergies. [00:25:22] Poison ivy and oak. [00:26:49] Peanut oil in diaper cream. [00:27:06] Oral vs topical exposure. [00:27:23] Epstein–Barr virus infection at certain ages. [00:28:09] Altitude. [00:28:24] Boulder has the lowest obesity rate in the US. [00:29:28] PGC1-a via hypoxia. [00:30:16] Barry Murray on my podcast. [00:31:36] Altitude masks. [00:32:02] Train high race low. [00:32:24] Jeremy Powers on this podcast. [00:34:43] gettingstronger.org
Just Anthony and Rob talking about Cyclocross, Jeremy Powers, Tim Johnson, Ryan Trebon, Carpentersville, Jinglecross, Trek, Sven Nys, Katie Compton, Georgia Gould, etc....
Lauren Petersen, PhD, is a postdoctoral associate working for Dr. George Weinstock and investigating the microbiome. Our knowledge of the 100 trillion microorganisms that inhabit the human body is still very limited, but the advent of next-generation sequencing technology has allowed researchers to start understanding what kind of microorganisms inhabit the human body and identifying the types of genes these organisms carry. As part of the NIH-funded Human Microbiome Project, her lab is focused on developing and applying the latest technologies to characterize the microbiome and its impact on human health. One of her main projects is metatranscriptomic analysis whereby they are attempting to characterize gene expression of an entire community from human samples such as stool and saliva. Gaining information on what signals or environmental factors can trigger changes in global gene expression of an entire microbial community may provide us with the tools to better treat certain types of diseases in humans. Lauren is currently working on the Athlete Microbiome Project. By collecting stool and saliva samples from a cohort of highly fit professional cyclists, she will make an attempt to understand how their microbiomes may differ from those of the general population. The goal is to characterize the species present, the genes they carry, and how gene expression is modulated in athletes who push their bodies to the limit. Here’s the outline of this interview with Lauren Petersen: [00:00:28] George Weinstock, PhD. [00:01:27] Jeremy Powers interview. [00:01:43] Jeff Kendall-Weed. [00:02:15] Why care about the gut microbiome? [00:03:32] Metabolic functions. [00:03:51] NIH Human Microbiome Project. [00:04:39] Phase II longitudinal study. [00:06:01] Microbial diversity. [00:07:33] Lyme and antibiotics. [00:08:15] Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. [00:09:35] Gordon conferences - Rob Knight. [00:10:27] American Gut Project. [00:10:48] Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. [00:11:05] Enterobacteriaceae. [00:11:59] Fecal transplant. [00:13:16] Screening donors. [00:13:32] DIY. [00:13:52] C. diff. [00:14:14] Transplants started in the 50s. [00:14:47] IBS. [00:16:12] Healthy donor. [00:17:43] Within a month, Lauren was feeling a lot better. [00:18:13] Instantaneous improvement on the bike. [00:19:22] No more stomach issues, "more energy than I knew what to do with". [00:19:54] Retest data showed perfect match with donor. [00:20:56] Sequencing large vs. small intestinal microbes. [00:21:28] FDA has no idea what to do. [00:23:02] Strategies for maintaining a healthy gut microbiome. [00:23:31] Whole foods, lots of fruit and vegetables. [00:23:48] No gels. [00:24:26] Athlete Microbiome Project. [00:26:34] Microbiome doping? [00:27:05] Ruminococcus - starch digester. [00:28:26] Enterotype - the dominate species in the gut. [00:28:56] Prevotella. [00:30:14] Teasing apart the cause and the effect. [00:32:28] Endotoxins released during intense exercise. [00:32:49] 25 participants at the time of recording, I'm number 26! [00:33:29] Matching cohort of healthy controls. [00:34:28] Ibis World Cup racer. [00:35:01] uBiome. [00:35:08] My app. [00:35:54] The problem with 16S sequencing. [00:36:16] Missing bifidobacteria. [00:37:05] A combination of methods is required for accurate testing. [00:38:30] New commercially available test? [00:39:11] Probiotic quality. [00:40:04] Testing probiotics. [00:41:37] Bifido doesn't like oxygen (or your stomach). [00:42:02] Lactobacillus is more resilient. [00:42:50] Bifido love fructooligosaccharides. [00:43:36] Lack of association with dietary restrictions. [00:44:53] Feed your microbiome!
In Episode 36 the Warren brothers converge once again to talk about cycling and as usual focus on the professional side of the sport. They recap the recently completed Eneco Tour which just took place in the Netherlands and Belgium. The race gave perhaps a preview to the form of riders hoping to represent their national teams at the upcoming World Championships in Doha, Qatar in October. Slovakia's Peter Sagan is looking awfully strong. The Warrens continued their discussion by mentioning the recent rider transfer news, particularly on the US domestic scene. UnitedHealthcare and Holowesko-Citadel have been busy signing riders with John Murphy moving over to Holowesko and Travis McCabe over to UHC. Randy and Dean noted the number of domestic based riders who will represent the United States and Worlds and the high chance of a medal from junior racer Skylar Schneider. Before concluding the podcast the Warrens discussed the recently completed World Cup Cyclo-cross races in Las Vegas and Iowa City. Randy and Dean look forward to perhaps an interview before the next podcast with US multi-national champion Jeremy Powers.
Jeremy Powers is Senior Director of Sales Enablement at MongoDB and he's kicking some big goals while the company's sales team scales rapidly. A critical component of their sales enablement strategy is their onboarding boot camp. Listen to the this episode to know more about MongoDB's formula for sales success.
Jeremy Powers is the current U.S. Cyclocross champion and top-ranked American rider in the world, and he listens to my podcast! I couldn’t believe it when I found out. Jeremy emailed me to say hi, and of course, I immediately invited him on so that I could probe deep into the diet, lifestyle, training and racing strategy that has enabled him to be National Champion four times. Our contact was minimal before the interview, and I had no idea that Jeremy has a delicate relationship with carbohydrates, or that he has experimented with the ketogenic diet. Here’s the outline of this interview with Jeremy Powers: 0:04:02 Infectious mononucleosis (mono). 0:04:31 Northampton Cycling Club Elite Team 0:04:37 Alec Donahue and Mukunda Feldman. 0:05:48 Danny from Jelly Belly cycling team. 0:06:26 Philadelphia International Cycling Classic. 0:07:25 Kirk Albers. 0:08:54 Cross is 30-40 race days per year. 0:08:59 Road is an additional 70-80. 0:11:27 Tubular tyres. 0:11:30 SRAM eTAP wireless shifting, hydraulic brakes and 1X system with clutch derailleurs. 0:17:46 "Just go out there and flap your wings." 0:18:45 “Blackboard technique where I think about absolutely nothing” 0:22:18 Behind the Barriers documentary series. 0:26:28 Very low blood sugar: 40 mg/dL! 0:29:40 Workup at the Mayo Clinic included the blood marker C-peptide. 0:32:12 CHO intake of around 200g on a day included four hours of training. 0:32:48 Cross season is Sep - Feb. 0:32:55 Five week rest break in Feb. 0:33:11 Training 25-30 hours a week. 0:33:36 6-8 weeks of base. 0:36:53 Core, plank, side-plank. 0:37:36 3x12 15-25lb Bulgarian split-squat. 0:38:13 CrossFit style box jumps. 0:45:43 After Chris Froome cut back on carbs for more protein, he lost 20 pounds, started winning the Tour de France, and became a millionaire. 0:45:46 2016 Tour de France second place finisher Romain Bardet. 0:45:52 Breakfast of Champions article by Marty Kendall. 0:47:31 MCT oil. We make a powdered version. 0:51:24 Review: Ketone Bodies and Exercise Performance: The Next Magic Bullet or Merely Hype? 0:51:40 Nutritional Ketosis Alters Fuel Preference and Thereby Endurance Performance in Athletes. 0:55:04 Focus bikes. 0:57:18 Cyclocross camp in August with FasCat Coaching. 0:57:42 Ember: The World's First Non-invasive Haemoglobin Tracker. 0:59:28 Ferritin blood test. 0:59:55 Very low 25-OH-D. 1:01:05 The Daily Lipid Podcast 9: Balancing Calcium and Phosphorus in the Diet, and the Importance of Measuring Parathyroid Hormone (PTH). 1:05:18 JAM Fund Cycling. 1:07:41 Ellen Noble. 1:10:07 www.jpows.com 1:10:14 behindthebarriers.tv
Hey folks, E. Zachary Knight here. Andrew was caught using Twitter this past week and is now on the run from the Podunk Witch Hunters. While he is in hiding, Jeremy Powers of Zens Path joined me for the latest Molehill Mountain podcast. We took part in more Pokemon Go chatter, Nintendo's return to its ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 9 – Pokemon Goes To Retro NES’ »
The 2014 Ultimate Guide to Cyclocross Resources August 5, 2014 By derek Leave a Comment Thinking of doing your first Cyclocross season? Been racing CX for a while and want to delve deeper into the sport? Each year I publish a list of my favorite cyclocross resources to help you kick butt and enjoy getting muddy! Here is a list of my favorite Cyclocross resources for 2014 Websites: www.cyclingnews.com Race results, bikes, interviews, etc http://velonews.competitor.com/ Boulder based, has all the results, but goes a step further with insight and racing analysis. http://www.cxmagazine.com/ Race, Tech, Skills, etc. Complete resource. This is where I go to find out what tires or disc brakes I should try this season. http://www.cyclocrossworld.com/cyclocross.  While I always encourage you to build a good relationship and shop at your local bike shop (they are the ones who can rescue your bike after particularly muddy races), Cyclocross world has all the best CX gear, including hard to find stuff. Books: Cyclocross: Training and Technique by Simon Burney. The single best book for learning about cyclocross racing. This book gets into training, racing, skill, equipment, you name it. Behind The Stare by Geoff Proctor. By Longtime director of the Eurocross Camp and Montana English teacher, this book is tell all about the Pro cross scene in and included lots of training and lifestyle info. Mud, Snow, and Cyclocross by Molly Hurford.  This is a great collection of stories about cyclocross in the US, as told by racers, coaches, hecklers, and event promoters. The Time-Crunched Cyclist, 2nd Ed. (The Time-Crunched Athlete) by Chris Carmichael. Perfect for Cyclocross racers who work also.  I used adaptations of the training in this book to race the collegiate cycling season while a full time grad student on 8 hours of training/week. Training Camps: http://www.fascatcoaching.com/cxcamp.html With Jeremy Powers in Boulder,CO, August 29-31. http://petewebber.com/cracking-the-code-tim-johnsons-cyclocross-secrets/ With Tim Johnson and coach Pete Webber (who runs the Boulder jr. cross also).  Great one each year, is a bit earlier in the summer. http://cycle-smart.com/coaching/training-camps/2014-cycle-smart-cyclocross-camp With east coast cyclocross legend Adam Myerson Aug 9-10. Video http://www.behindthebarriers.tv/.  The reality TV series started by and starring Jeremy Powers gives the best look inside the US Pro cross lifestyle.  The now have several channels with race analysis, previews, and rankings. http://www.youtube.com/user/kwestwood Collection of a few technique videos http://www.youtube.com/user/cyclocrossable UKCX. All the UCI Cross races in full Bikes: Mosaic 2013 NAHBS best cyclocross bike winner (and my personal sponsor) Ridley Top Choice of lots of Euro Pro teams Cannondale Ridden by top US racers, Tim Johnson and Ryan Trebon Focus Ridden by US national champion Jeremy Powers and the Rapha-Focus team Trek gets a CX street cred boost now that both Sven Nys and Katie Compton are riding their bikes Blogs: www.mudandcowbells.com http://cxrepublic.com/cyclocross-directory/cx-blogs Coaching: Custom Coaching with Coach Derek (Me!) Get a fully customized training plan, race prep, technique, tactics, diet, psychological prep, and more! Cycle-Smart for you East-Coast types TrainingPeaks Cyclocross Training Plans.  Get a pre-written plan here to guide you through your training Thanks for reading, and have an epic season! Did I leave anything out?  Leave your best cyclocross resource in the comments
2016 (as well as 2015) National Cyclocross Champion Jeremy Powers joins us to talk about cycling, cyclocross, handling pressure, positive attitude as well as both his favorite movie and favorite ice cream flavor! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Super Podcast Action Committee (Episode 139), you can watch the video replay on YouTube. On this week’s show hosts Andrew Eisen and special guest host Jeremy Powers (sitting in for E. Zachary Knight) discuss the latest GamePolitics poll (“Bill Paxton as Jack Thompson?” – 12:39 mark), the Pirate ...Continue reading ‘Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 139’ »
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On this week’s show host E. Zachary Knight is joined by guest host Jeremy Powers to talk about Ubisoft’s ongoing controversy about including female characters and its response to the Watch Dogs PC mod, Playstation Now pricing, and some stuff on YouTubers. You can also find us on Facebook, on Twitter @SuperPACPodcast and Google +. You ...Continue reading ‘Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 103’ »
This episode of Athlete On Fire brings a National Champion and world class athlete in the sport of cyclocross in to the mix. He shares what his family did every summer and how it formed his idea of what work is. He got into his sport at 15 and pretty much never looked back. He shares how his optimism allows him to compete at a high level and what a day in the life is like. He breaks down the sport of cyclocross for anyone who may not know what it is and his passion is contagious. After today's show you are going to go out and find the next cyclocross event near you and enter because today's athlete is absolutely on FIRE!
Past Episodes – Super Podcast Action Committee (Inactive) – KNGI Network
On this week’s show hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight are joined by Jeremy Powers to discuss suspended California Senator Leland Yee’s legal troubles for charges including illegal gun running, corruption, and bribery; and Facebook buying Oculus Rift. It’s fun for the whole family! You can also find us on Facebook, on Twitter @SuperPACPodcast ...Continue reading ‘Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 93’ »
Fear not, faithful listeners. We're not messing with the regular "Open Mic with Mike Creed" podcast. Every Friday you'll still get an in-depth conversation with Mike and a featured guest.This new joint is Mike's Tuesday call-in show. Over the weekend Mike will tweet a number and a time for listeners to dial in and join him for a free-ranging hodgepodge of pranks, music, fan questions, heckles, and other random tips from cycling's most handsome and ripped plus-sized head model with a rapier-like wit.Imagine "Punk'd" crossed with Howard Stern, but with bikes and music. Yeah, that.So download this sucker to your iPod, break out the sick whip, and get lost for an hour.This week's show features some old friends and new acquaintances, including Phil "The Thrill Gaimon," someone who sounds suspiciously like Jeremy Powers, and co-host of the "Race Radio" podcast Derek Troy helping Mike give iTunes advice.
Fear not, faithful listeners. We're not messing with the regular "Open Mic with Mike Creed" podcast. Every Friday you'll still get an in-depth conversation with Mike and a featured guest. This new joint is Mike's Tuesday call-in show. Over the weekend Mike will tweet a number and a time for listeners to dial in and join him for a free-ranging hodgepodge of pranks, music, fan questions, heckles, and other random tips from cycling's most handsome and ripped plus-sized head model with a rapier-like wit. Imagine "Punk'd" crossed with Howard Stern, but with bikes and music. Yeah, that. So download this sucker to your iPod, break out the sick whip, and get lost for an hour. This week's show features some old friends and new acquaintances, including Phil "The Thrill Gaimon," someone who sounds suspiciously like Jeremy Powers, and co-host of the "Race Radio" podcast Derek Troy helping Mike give iTunes advice.
Past Episodes – Super Podcast Action Committee (Inactive) – KNGI Network
This week Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight are joined by Jeremy Powers (who you may know better here on GamePolitics as ‘Zen’), who talks about the feel-good story of this past week: finally being able to play video games with his daughter. Using the second screen of the Wii U, Jeremy’s daughter Jennifer (who ...Continue reading ‘Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 67’ »
THIS EPISODE Mike talks to Rapha-Focus star Jeremy Powers, the ambassador of U.S. cyclocross, who also rides for the domestic Jelly Belly squad. They wax poetic on niche podcasting, the birth of Behind the Barriers, and bringing fans to the races (and vice versa). In addition, Powers' dog Moose tries to get on air, the guys talk about missed Twitter quip opportunities, and Powers recounts his nearly perfect early season and podiuming before Louisville only to somehow have CX Nationals and Worlds "go to complete shit" on him. We also get to hear Jeremy tell the story of the first time he and Creed met in Belgium, and the advice Creed gave to him that Powers now passes on to future generations. We hope you enjoy this frank and funny conversation as much as we did.
THIS EPISODE Mike talks to Rapha-Focus star Jeremy Powers, the ambassador of U.S. cyclocross, who also rides for the domestic Jelly Belly squad. They wax poetic on niche podcasting, the birth of Behind the Barriers, and bringing fans to the races (and vice versa). In addition, Powers’ dog Moose tries to get on air, the guys talk about missed Twitter quip opportunities, and Powers recounts his nearly perfect early season and podiuming before Louisville only to somehow have CX Nationals and Worlds "go to complete shit" on him. We also get to hear Jeremy tell the story of the first time he and Creed met in Belgium, and the advice Creed gave to him that Powers now passes on to future generations. We hope you enjoy this frank and funny conversation as much as we did.
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