This week's guest is Carlos Casali to talk about his formula for winning crit and cyclocross races across the nation.  He has worked his way up the ranks from CAT 5 to CAT 1.  He's got of really interesting insights on racing and training.  

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In Today's Show

• Feature interview with Carlos Casali
• What New in the 303 - Cyclocross Racing, Sepp Kuss on his role with Jumbo Visma and hope for the Olympics
• Endurance News - Blummenfelt takes Barcelona, Hart wins Giro, and Pogačar Tour win explained by science

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Interview with Carlos Casali:

As we prepared for this interview, I kept thinking about how Carlos started cycling with as much experience as I had when I was his age.  I honestly was never at CAT 3 and to see someone who has a full time + professional career achieve such success in cycling made me very curious.  I wanted to know what he did to break through to CAT 3 and eventually to CAT 1 and he's winning races all over the country. What is he doing that I'm not doing?  A lot of training is what.

 

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