Listen up mountain bikers!  Our interview this week is with the professional mountain biker, Ryan Petry.  Ryan recently placed a close second at Haute Route Rockies and is racing next weekend at the Leadville 100 MTB race.

Thanks to last week's guest, Mark Fleming of iKOR Labs who helped us sort through all of the information about hemp extract, CBD and the benefits that endurance athletes are experiencing.  This turned out to be a pretty engaging topic and prompted a couple of good posts, which we'll read out here in a bit.

Ryan Petry as you will hear is an axe on the MTB.  In 2016, he finished 7th overall at the Leadville 100 MTB with a time of 06:48:54.  We are going to talk about his Haute Route Rockies result and much more.  Let's get into the interview.

Discussion topics:

• Ryan Petry, Haute Route and Leadville 100 MTB
• Khem's Donkey DNF and Ranger
• CBD Discussion
• • Barry Siff - Been using iKOR for about four months now and getting incredible results. CBD (a hemp extract) is not banned by WADA or USADA, and reduces inflammation (noticeably!), thus helping recovery, plus other benefits. Excellent listen here with the Founder, Mark Fleming. Thanks Rich ... and, congrats on the metabolic results with Bob Seebohar!
  • Mitchell Kusick - Thank you for conducting such an informative interview elucidating the benefits (and legality) of CBD in endurance sports! This was one of my favorite episodes as of late as I feel that there are a lot of people interested in this topic... That being said, given that there is a dearth of in-vivo studies supporting the strong anecdotal evidence, would you allow your daughter, as a younger athlete (like myself), to take CBD oil daily as an ergogenic aid?
• 303 Updates from Bill
• IM Boulder 70.3 Coverage

Upcoming interviews:

• Don Reichelt and Badwater 135 3rd place.
• Andrew Talansky and IM Whistler result - fastest bike split, 7th overall
• Matt Smith on swim workouts designed for specific training goals, swim form, common issues, etc.
• Cliff Simms - co-founder of Retul and now working with Specialized.  We're going to talk to him about the 3D Retul technology and where the product roadmap is heading and how it can help you.

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