Leadville: The 100 Mile Mountain Bike Race Podcast, p/b Floyd's of Leadville

Hottie and Fatty talk with Life Time's Michelle Duffy and ask the questions on everyone's minds. What caused the 2020 registration snafu? What options were discussed to handle the problem? How did they wind up with the current solution? How many people will be on the starting line this year? Will wave starts be used to solve the larger number of white-corral racers at the starting line? What are the pros, cons, and logistical hurdles of a wave start? How will this affect the 2021 lottery? And more!

This is it, the final episode of Season 2. We're closing out the show for the year with Alison Tetrick, 3X World Gravel Champ, DK200 Record Holder, and signed up for the 2020 Leadboat Challenge...in spite of the fact that she doesn't (yet!) own a mountain bike.  Hottie and Fatty also talk a little about Season 3 of the Leadville Podcast, so be sure to stick around after the conversation with Alison!

We catch up with Canyon pro racer Jeremiah Bishop, holder of one of the five fastest times ever recorded in the Leadville 100. One of the highlights of the season in this show was getting Jeremiah’s insights, both in our regular show and in the live show we did in Leadville this year. We are unashamed to say we were totally rooting for Jeremiah to take the top spot on the pro podium in Leadville this year. Fate, sadly, had other plans for Jeremiah this year, but he's still got a great story to tell. 

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...then tell us yours. 

It's our first-ever live episode, recorded in Leadville, CO, just a couple days before the race, with 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.

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, tell you about the events they're 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 begi

BONUS EPISODE for while you're traveling to Leadville or hanging out and getting used to the altitude! 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 17 finishes, 4 top-tens and he has broken 7 hours. But while he’s faster than most of us, Nate is a normal, busy guy with a family and a full time job. He's definitely 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. In this episode, Fatty & Hottie have a crew meeting — like the one every racer and crew should have. Roxanne Vogel has important info on nutrition timing for those last meals before the race. 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 for anyone who loves mountain biking in Leadville.

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 those inevitable endurance race demons.

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 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 wh

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 post-everest nutrition from Roxanne Vogel and critical insights for home mechanics from Ryan Morse.

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