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

It's been an intense weekend for the Fatty Family. Fatty crewed for his wife while she raced the Silver Rush 50 run, they both raced the Silver Rush 50 MTB the next day. Fatty and Hottie talk about key learnings from crewing, along with impressions and thoughts from the race -- and that’s in addition to high-altitude nutrition tips from Roxanne Vogel and critical insights for home mechanics from Ryan Morse. 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.   

NOTE: Enjoying the Leadville podcast? Share it by wearing it! 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. This episode Hottie talks with bike skills guru Lee McCormack about what you need to know to be fast, be confident, and keep the rubber side down in Leadville this year.  Lee's Bike Skills Classes RipRow 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.   

(((We're happy to announce we have a place, date and time for the "Leadville Live" Q&A episode of this show. Go to bit.ly/leadvillelive to get your free ticket!))) In this episode, Hottie and Fatty dig into whether and when to wear hydration packs in a race (and which does best in which parts of the course), as well as analyze the relative merits of different brands of hydration packs, bottles, and cages. Roxy, our nutrition guru, talks about how to bounce back when things go wrong on race day, and our mechanic has valuable tips for maintaining your brakes. Links to stuff we talk about in this episode: Free Tickets to our Leadville Live Q&A Recording Arundel Mandible bottle cages Specialized Purist Hydroflo USWE Airborne 3L 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.   

Fatty's in Leadville to support his wife as she races the Leadville Trail Marathon. While there, he recon'd the newly-graded Powerline, giving real-time analysis (i.e., he strapped a mic to his chest and talked while riding up the climb) of what this course change means to racers, both on the way up and down. Is an impossible climb now easy? What about the descent? All this, plus cramps talk with Roxanne Vogel and bike cleaning techniques with Ryan Morse. 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, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

Fatty just built up his Leadville 100 race bike (which is also his Silver Rush and Crusher in the Tushars race bike). He's stoked beyond belief and can't help but deep-dive on every little part of his new dream machine. The fact that Fatty eats, sleeps, and dreams this race probably means that the decisions he's made for his bike might be interesting to other endurance racers (like you!) too. This episode isn't all boasting about bikes, though. Our nutrition expert gives out fantastic race-day fueling tips and Coach Jonathan Lee hands out valuable advice for your climbing strategy.  Enjoy this episode of the show that breaks down, builds up, gets you ready, and freaks you out for the highest and hardest one day mountain bike race in the country! 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, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

The Leadville 100 is a race that appeals to bike nerds (admit it, you're one of them), people who love to monitor their effort as we train and race. So in this episode we talk with Kenny Carlson, a senior team leader in Garmin's Fitness software engineering group. No matter what device you train with, you'll find lots of good race-day info here.  We catch up with our nutrition expert, Roxanne Vogel, talking about what supplements you should check out, and which you might be better off leaving alone.  Finally, we chat with Jonathan Lee of TrainerRoad. He's got some great advice for those of us (all of us, basically) who have other big races we want to fit in to our season — how we can fit them into our schedules without leaving ourselves fatigued on the biggest race day of them all.   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, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

It's a packed show! Roxanne Vogel, our nutrition expert, talks altitude prep. Why? Well, she's s getting ready for an assault on Everest and has some highly Leadville-relevant tips for us. Jonathan Lee of TrainerRoad is back with a breakdown on your upcoming training block...which he says should be the hardest 3 weeks of your entire Leadville preparation. Hottie and Fatty talk (OK, argue) about one-by versus two-by drivetrains. Our friends at Shimano help sort out the confusion and give you the info you can use to make your choice (Fatty's going with an XTR 1x12 setup, just in case you're curious). Before all that, though, we talk about getting together during the week before the race for some riding and live podcasting. Care to join us?   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, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

In this episode, our special guest is Floyd Landis. Floyd’s of Leadville is our title sponsor and we’ve been talking a lot about their products, but we wanted to have Floyd on the show to break down how his company came to be and how we can use CBD to make us better Leadville racers. We spend a fair amount of time digging into a question Ron Henion posted on the FB Leadville 100 Participants group that got a lot of interest: What are some things y’all use/d to stay mentally grounded during the race? What keeps you “digging deep?” As it turns out, Fatty and Hottie have several answers to this question...and definitely not the same ones. Roxanne Vogel, our nutrition expert, joins us to discuss training techniques and tips you can use to prepare for fueling during this race.  And finally, we bring in a new contributor, expert mechanic Ryan Morse, to look at how to take care of two critical areas on your bike that can otherwise become a real annoyance. 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, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

Larissa Connors is an incredibly fast, fun, and joyful racer...and quite possibly the most entertaining LT100 champion Hottie and Fatty have ever interviewed. Also, Hottie's back from Sea Otter and we talk about what what felt like the star of the show: the Niner MCR. Will this be the first production drop-bar bike to have mass LT100 appeal?  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, and no better seatpost than the ENVE Seatpost.   

You've got a weekend to come to Leadville to pre-ride some of the course. It's a perfect opportunity to get a sense of how you do at altitude, how hard those iconic climbs really are, and maybe to settle some of those pre-Leadville jitters. Hottie and Fatty have decidedly different takes on what you should ride.  In this episode, Fatty has a phone conversation with Ty Hall, the guy who raises money for the Leadville Legacy Foundation each year by starting the race in last place and racing his way through the field. How does he do it? What's his hoped-for time this year? What's his take on the new wave start? This is a must-hear conversation with one of the nicest, fastest, most-knowledgeable racers in the field.  And finally, Hottie goes on location to Windburn Studios, where he has a conversation with Tony Manzella about how a cyclist-led spin class can really pay off on race day. Thanks for listening to LEADVILLE: the podcast for the 100 mile Mountain Bike Race, Presented by Floyd’s of Leadville —the show that breaks down, builds up, gets you ready, and freaks you out for the highest and hardest one day mountain bike race in the country.