Cross-country cycling

Yeah, didn't know that.

And probably most famously, Cadel Evans actually as an elite won XCO World Series was it, or?

So he was definitely around on the mountain bike circuit for a few years-

Yeah

So knowing like what your liver enzyme, um, genetic markers are is can be helpful like at the high level for sure um if you've ever done 23andme you can look it up um oftentimes like if you you can look up your snip they call it a single nucleotide polymorphism like code for the CYP1A2 gene for our listeners oh okay cool but huh yeah yeah yeah

I do I take caffeine for the the XCO um and that I mean like yeah that

works for me for sure.

But

yeah, just for the 20 minute effort, like I think I always forever, I thought like, it's just how I, it's what I do for XCO.

So it's what I do for any race, you know? And yeah, I think that's kind of been a cool like realization that I didn't need it.

Yeah.

Do you feel like you perform better for the XCO having had like that extra night of good or better sleep following short track?

A lot of people who mountain bike, they run high teens, low 20s, just because they don't want to flat and they don't want to bust the rim.

But the actual fastest tire pressure around an XCO course or around techie stuff like this guy's riding is lower than you think it is.

It's probably in the mid-teens.

And obviously when you ride tires in the mid-teens, you're probably going to slam your rim if you don't have some inserts in there.

What would you like to see change? Improve? Change?

I'd like to see the XCO series grow just because that's going to feed more performance riders into our national teams in the future.

Yeah, I want the best for my clients that come through, of course.

And I'd like to see... more international events come back to our shores.

You've got the riders getting ready for Cape Epic.

You've got all the best riders in the world here on our shores.

We just need an XCO event for it.

Why don't we have one? I'm sure it comes down to budget.

Him and Pidcock basically started in the same row, and Vanderpool never made it into the top 25, but Pidcock was off the front after the first lap.

What? He did the short track and the XCO? He did not do the short track.

Okay.

I don't think either of them did the short track.

Bajorn? Bajorn getting fourth in both races.

That's pretty stout.

I don't think he got fourth in the XCO.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah.

And always like a little preview, I think, of how they're going to go on the Sunday's XCO race.

It is, but then there was sort of like the big...

I'm not going to say big dogs because that sounds a bit mean, but we've got the roadies dipping in as well.

racing.

It was, yes.

So on that note then, let's go for the full XCO, Olympic distance.

Okay, perfect.

And that was Val de Soleil.

We go, the XC, we had Irish in the XC.

That's right.

We did the, I think, Ryan Daly got involved in the crash and DNF'd.

yeah yeah he probably would

yeah imagine i'm doing it yeah

I'm surprised he's never he's a previous EMTB world champ he won the first ever EMTB world championships XC world championships yeah it was the only EMTB world champs at the time yeah so yeah just he's a some animal on a bike 5th place Adrian Bwashi who won the Short Track World Champs that's right probably wrecked from that he's had a hell of a season in fairness unreal so he was always going to be present Martin Vadori 4th place from Chile Cole Punchard canadian in third charlie aldridge second and tom pickock first

and we had a chris dawson was uh irish he was what top 30 was he