Leadville, The 100 Mile Mountain Bike Race Podcast p/b Shimano

Chris Smith raced Leadville for the first time this year. It was a celebration of strength, willpower, and independence...because he raced it after losing seventy pounds, and ten years after being declared legally blind. Riding for the Challenged Athletes Foundation, Chris has a remarkable story to tell. We guarantee you'll be inspired by his 2019 Leadville 100 race report.  

For this episode, we've got a race report unlike any we've heard before: Joe Stein — one of this year’s LT100 sweepers — tells stories from the very back of the race. It's inspiring, funny, exciting, sad, and surprising. Don't miss it!

This podcast spends a ton of time talking about the Leadville 100 Mountain bike race, but have you ever considered the RUNNING version of the Leadville 100? In this episode, Fatty and Hottie talk with Lisa, a 15X finisher of the LT100MTB, about her first attempt at doing the LT100 run. It's an inspiring and personal story, but you'll have to decide for yourself whether it makes you want to try...or to avoid...this event.

Fatty raced it. Hottie crewed it — and recorded it! This is the Leadville co-hosts' story of the day, from the starting line (yes we recorded while standing in the red corral) to the finish line (yes we recorded while sitting on the lawn at 6th and Harrison) and beyond. Enjoy our story...and then tell us yours.  THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Presenting Sponsor: Floyd's of Leadville: Use the code FATTY at checkout for a 15% discount on your first 2 orders! THE FEED: Every single thing you need to fuel your training and day. Get a discount on Maurten drink mix by using the Leadville15 code at checkout.  Shimano: The absolute best in bike gear, whether you are looking for components, a helmet, accessories...or even socks.  Banjo Brothers: Get 15% off your order by going to banjobrothers.com/fatty-favorites. ENVE: If you're racing the Leadville 100, there's no better wheels than the ENVE M525, no better bar than the M5, no better stem than the M6 Mountain Stem, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

It's our first-ever live episode, recorded in Leadville, CO, just a couple of days before the 2019 Leadville 100, with a wide ranging questions from our audience for our incredible panel: Floyd Landis, Dave Zabriskie, and Jeremiah Bishop. We talk about our experts' top advice for racers, bike setup, pro race predictions, writing your split projections on your top tube, proper fueling, sleeping at altitude before races...and a startling amount about pooping. Don't miss this fun, loose, and remarkably informative episode. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Presenting Sponsor: Floyd's of Leadville: Use the code FATTY at checkout for a 15% discount on your first 2 orders! THE FEED: Every single thing you need to fuel your training and day. Get a discount on Maurten drink mix by using the Leadville15 code at checkout.  Shimano: The absolute best in bike gear, whether you are looking for components, a helmet, accessories...or even socks.  Banjo Brothers: Get 15% off your order by going to banjobrothers.com/fatty-favorites. ENVE: If you're racing the Leadville 100, there's no better wheels than the ENVE M525, no better bar than the M5, no better stem than the M6 Mountain Stem, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

It’s less than a week ‘til the race, Fatty just got into Leadville, and he wanted to just give you a quick final pre-race episode to let you know about how the course looks today, tell you about the events Hottie and Fatty are either leading or joining here in Leadville this week (including some interesting stuff we haven't talked about before), and give those of you who don’t necessarily spend your time reading alllllll the way to the bottom of Life Time emails...a little news about the change to how the race is going to begin. 

We try to fit everything into our regular episodes, but the interview in this episode was so good, so informative, and — to be honest — so long that it has to stand on its own. (Actually it's not that long … just a bit much to squeeze into our normal shows with all the other stuff we have going on.) Nate Whitman is a name rarely mentioned when discussing the front of the race at the Leadville 100. But he should be, because he has been at the front — a number of times. He has four top-tens and he has broken 7 hours.. Nate has 17 finishes and a thousand mile buckle. Nate has also scored big at other endurance races: A top-10 at La Ruta, a win at Rebecca’s Private Idaho, and he has been on the podium four times in the 40+ age group at Dirty Kanza, including a tenth place overall. His name may not get mentioned much but his race record speaks for itself. In spite of all that, Nate is a lot like the rest of us lining it up at Leadville. Sure, he’s faster than most of us, but Nate has a family and a full time job that keep him busy. So the fact that he keeps notching high placings at Leadville and other big-time events is pretty amazing — nd somebody we thought would be worth hearing from, to learn just how he does it.  

If you’ve got a crew — and most racers do — you really want to make sure you’re all on the same page. S1E8 & S1E9 of this podcast were all about creating and executing your crew plan.  This year, though, Hottie's crewing for Fatty, and so we're having a little meeting on this show — like the one every racer and crew should have. We’ve put together a shared google doc with Fatty's projected splits, everything he wants at each crew station, and a running to-do, to-buy, to-ask, and to-remember list for both racer and crew chief — our working Leadville racer / crewer bible.  You can see this evolving doc (yes it's the actual live working version and will change right up to race day) — and make a copy of it for yourself to use for you and your crew — at this link.  This episode also has crucial info for any racer (and that's most of us) traveling to Leadville. Roxanne Vogel has important info on nutrition timing for those last meals before gun time and sixth and Harrison.  Last but not least, Ryan Morse gives you some very relevant guidance on brake bleed, and we have a great conversation with Sterling Mudge of Cloud City Wheelers — one anyone who loves mountain biking in Leadville will want to hear. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Presenting Sponsor: Floyd's of Leadville: Use the code FATTY at checkout for a 15% discount on your first 2 orders! THE FEED: Every single thing you need to fuel your training and day. Get a discount on Maurten drink mix by using the Leadville15 code at checkout.  Shimano: The absolute best in bike gear, whether you are looking for components, a helmet, accessories...or even socks.  Banjo Brothers: Get 15% off your order by going to banjobrothers.com/fatty-favorites. ENVE: If you're racing the Leadville 100, there's no better wheels than the ENVE M525, no better bar than the M5, no better stem than the M6 Mountain Stem, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

Sometime during the Leadville 100, you're going to suffer. You're going to wonder why you made this ridiculous decision to go do this obscenely difficult race. You could have stayed home. You could have been relaxing. Instead, you're doing this STUPID RACE.  Yeah, this is the episode about confronting the inevitable demons. But we've also got great info on taking care of flats fast, strategies for eating as you're traveling to Leadville (so you don't wind up sick on race day), and drive train tips with Ryan Morse of Diablo Wheel Works. COME PRE-RIDE COLUMBINE MINE WITH US We're going to pre-ride up to the Columbine Mine turnaround the Wednesday before the race. Come join us for a ride, some some conversation, some awesome swag from The Feed, and a post-ride recovery drink from Floyd's of Leadville. Get your free ticket at bit.ly/columbineride. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Presenting Sponsor: Floyd's of Leadville: Use the code FATTY at checkout for a 15% discount on your first 2 orders! THE FEED: Every single thing you need to fuel your training and day. Get a discount on Maurten drink mix by using the Leadville15 code at checkout.  Shimano: The absolute best in bike gear, whether you are looking for components, a helmet, accessories...or even socks.  Banjo Brothers: Get 15% off your order by going to banjobrothers.com/fatty-favorites. ENVE: If you're racing the Leadville 100, there's no better wheels than the ENVE M525, no better bar than the M5, no better stem than the M6 Mountain Stem, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

There's no arguing that your Leadville 100 success depends on hard work, skill, nutrition, and preparation. But this episode, we talk with the genius engineer / CEO of Silca — Josh Poertner — about getting free speed on the course. This is a great interview with lots of practical advice from the guy World Tour Pro teams go to when they want to get faster. We’ve also got good nutrition advice you can use right now as we’re just under a month ‘til race day, and Ryan Morse of diablowheelworks.com checks in with guidance on your wheels. GET YOUR LEADVILLE PODCAST T-SHIRT Enjoying the Leadville podcast? Share it by wearing it! We've got Just $20, cotton / Poly blend, soft as silk, sexy as hell. Go to bit.ly/leadvilletshirt, and use the code PODCAST to get free shipping. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Presenting Sponsor: Floyd's of Leadville: Use the code FATTY at checkout for a 15% discount on your first 2 orders! THE FEED: Every single thing you need to fuel your training and day. Get a discount on Maurten drink mix by using the Leadville15 code at checkout.  Shimano: The absolute best in bike gear, whether you are looking for components, a helmet, accessories...or even socks.  Banjo Brothers: Get 15% off your order by going to banjobrothers.com/fatty-favorites. ENVE: If you're racing the Leadville 100, there's no better wheels than the ENVE M525, no better bar than the M5, no better stem than the M6 Mountain Stem, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.