Abigail Mickey

Hello and welcome back to the wheel talk podcast.

My name is Abby Mickey, and I'm here with friends to talk about women's professional road cycling today.

We're talking about the world championship road race.

We already had the junior that we had the junior and the U 23 races.

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everyone's resilience is different um so you know i can't compare myself to elisa for example because i don't know what her um you know cognitive processing's like compared to mine but i think it's just like yeah i just watch in awe because they they give so much of themselves time and time again and they've got pressure on them and most of that pressure is from themselves but like Wowee.

And as you said, Abby, Demi did have the most pressure and she has had the most pressure probably all season across those top races.

So I feel like sometimes her messaging about mental strength gets a little lost in translation, but I think that this world race is a really nice example of the mental strength and the work she's done for her mental strength to get to this point and handle the race so well, like handle her form going into it, handle the pressure and, and be so patient in the race.

This is what teamwork looks like.

like.Abby Mickey has just arrived.

Hello.

Abby, what do you think?

Couple of minutes to go.

I think he's gonna do it.

Abby Mickey getting cut off by the sound of Brandon McNulty about to win the World Championships.

[laughs] If you guys can talk through it, um, uh...

Uh, let's get into the actual bike races this weekend.

Uh, we're gonna start with the men's in the hope that Abby Mickey sh- shows up [laughs] sometime in the next about half hour or so.

Abby, if you're listening-

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And this would just be the preparation leading up to that.

So to your point, Abby, about Bollering and what Hannah was saying, if that is the goal, then it's good to, you know, it's a world's abroad.

You want to get there with enough time to settle in, get over the jet lag, get any of those bad feelings out of your legs.

And a time trial can be that perfect event to sort of open up and crack the legs before the main event.