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What is YOUR most memorable ride?

Georges Esquivel is an artist and world renowned shoe and bag designer. In his career, he has made shoes for celebrities like Janelle Monáe, Gwen Stefani, Deandre Jordan, and many more. But George is also an avid mountain biker, and an all around passionate guy.

On this short episode of "Your most memorable ride" Georges tells us why he loves cycling so much, and also tells the story of his most memorable ride, and pair of shoes...

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What is YOUR most memorable ride? Is it a specific race where everything clicked and you achieved a lifelong dream? A ride where you met the love of your life? An adventure that turned to a nightmare?

Whatever it is, our most memorable ride is always a good story! And I want to share those stories in these short episodes.

This episode is presented by the Hammerhead Karoo 2. Use code FEVER to get a free heart rate monitor with the purchase of your Karoo 2.

What is YOUR most memorable ride?

Is it a specific race where everything clicked and you achieved a lifelong dream? A ride where you met the love of your life? An adventure that turned to a nightmare?

Whatever it is, our most memorable ride is always a good story! And I want to share those stories in these short episodes.

On this episode: Bike messenger, adventurer, artist and all around cyclist Charles Christiansen (a.k.a Chas) tells the story of HIS most memorable ride. He takes us into the world of alley cat racing, back when he was competing to become the best bike messenger in the world.

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This episode is presented by the Hammerhead Karoo 2. Use code FEVER to get a free heart rate monitor with the purchase of your Karoo 2.

What is YOUR most memorable ride?

Is it a specific race where everything clicked and you achieved a lifelong dream? A ride where you met the love of your life? An adventure that turned to a nightmare?

Whatever it is, our most memorable ride is always a good story! And I want to share those stories in these short episodes.

On this first episode, pro cyclist Michael Woods tells the story of HIS most memorable ride. It happens to be his first Grand Tour win, but the story is even more special than that.

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This episode is presented by the Hammerhead Karoo 2. Use code FEVER to get a free heart rate monitor with the purchase of your Karoo 2.

Genevieve's story is a story of hope!

At 16 years old, Genevieve Jeanson was a great cyclist with big dreams. Unfortunately, at that young age, she was pulled into a situation that transformed her life. Doping, abuse, and violence became her reality. She won many races, but eventually, she felt like she was living in a nightmare that she needed to escape, and failing a doping test was, in her own words, "the best thing that could have happened to her" at that time.

15 years later, Genevieve is a strong and inspiring woman. She has overcome obstacles most of us could never imagine living. Genevieve is back riding and racing her bike, tackling gravel events and big adventures, and she's never been happier.

In this episode, Genevieve opens up about how she dealt with the hard experiences of her life, how she bounced back, and how she found her love for cycling all over again. Genevieve is now dedicated to sharing her story She also in order to help other young athletes that may face similar challenges.

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Follow Genevieve: @genjeanson

Cet épisode est bien spécial car il co-animé avec Antoine Duchesne (ex cyclist pro de la Groupama FDJ). Durant cet episode, Antoine et moi discutons avec Stefan Küng, l'ami et co-équipier d'Antoine. Honnêtement, une de mes conversations préférées!

Stefan est un coureur Suisse spécialiste du contre la montre et des Classiques. Il tient aussi un rôle de Capitaine de Route au sein de la Groupama FDJ. Dans cette conversation, on discute de son rôle de capitaine de route et de comment il trouve le calme à travers le chaos. Puis, il nous amène dans sa tête lors d'un contre-la-montre et parle de comment in gère son stress et comment il gère la douleur. Enfin, Stefan nous parle de son rituel de préparation à l'entrainement, de comment l'isolation l'aide à faire le focus, puis on parle de ses passions hors vélo!

Zoe Backstedt is a 5x World Champion, at only 18 years old. Zoe exudes confidence, but on and off the race course. She is able to make her way through the chaotic starts of cyclocross race with what seems like ease. She has the confidence to rub elbows with some athletes she looked up as heroes to just a few years ago, and she does it with grace. Yet, she remains incredibly humble through it all. On this conversation, we discuss confidence and aggressivity with Zoe. How does one build confidence? Is this something you can train? Does even the most confident of us experience ebbs and flows in confidence? And, can there be such thing as too much confidence? We talk about all that and way more...

To shop the Emotions of Racing kit, click here.

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This year, the kit Rapha designed for me is based on emotions. More specifically, the emotions of racing. 

On the kit, each colour represents an emotion that I believe is key to a good racing mindset. Happiness, Calm, Excitement, Focus, Awareness, and agressivity. 

On this podcast series, I will sit down with different athletes to dig deep into each of these racing emotions; to discuss all sides of each emotions and try and learn from each of these great athletes. 

Clara Honsinger is a 3x USA cyclocross National Champion, and she has stood on the podium of several CX World Cups. In my opinion, Clara is the epitome of being a calm and composed racer; we often see her calmly and steadily make her way through the field to claim a podium spot in the biggest races. In this conversation, Maghalie and Clara discuss the balance between calm and excitement. How does Clara find calm through the chaos and pressure of racing? Can there be something as being too calm? If so, how does she get herself excited? We discuss all that and way more.

To shop the Emotions of Racing collection from Rapha, click here.

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This year, the kit Rapha designed for me is based on emotions. More specifically, the emotions of racing. 

On the kit, each colour represents an emotion that I believe is key to a good racing mindset. Happiness, Calm, Excitement, Focus, Awareness, and agressivity. 

On this podcast series, I will sit down with different athletes to dig deep into each of these racing emotions; to discuss all sides of each emotions and try and learn from each of these great athletes. 

On this episode of the "Emotions of Racing series" we dive into the mind of designer, Santi Roig Dinares to understand how he came up with the kit idea, concept, and final product. Santi shares his creative process with us from start to finish when building a new kit. How seeing live cyclocross races and being connected to the story helps him create kits, and more. Plus, he explains how having constraints help him get his best work.

We recorded this conversation in video where Santi shares a presentation deck of the creative process. The video can be found here.

The Rapha kit is now available for sale here.

Muddy Mondays are presented to you by SRAM and Rapha.

On this episode, which is the last of the series, David and Maghalie sit down to look back at the 2022-23 cyclocross season. They discuss: What they learned this season? Their highlight and worst moment? Favorite race? Meal of the season? Best encounter of the season? The song of the season? Did they achieve their goals? And they hint at what is next for them this spring and summer.

Thank you all for listening!

This year, the kit Rapha designed for me is based on emotions. More specifically, the emotions of racing. 

On the kit, each colour represents an emotion that I believe is key to a good racing mindset. Happiness, Calm, Excitement, Focus, Awareness, and aggressivity. 

On this podcast series, I will sit down with different athletes to dig deep into each of these racing emotions; to discuss all sides of each emotions and try and learn from each of these great athletes. 

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This episode is on Focus. Focus is represented by green on the kit…

To deconstruct the emotion of "focus", we discuss with professional Enduro racer and former Downhill World Champion Miranda Miller. Miranda LOVES speed. It is what makes her feel alive. At the speeds at which she rides her bike down mountains, she has to be extremely focused...but how? And, it's one thing to be focused, but focusing on the RIGHT thing at the RIGHT moment is another ask...so what does she focus on? Can we train our ability to focus?

We’ll dig into all that, and way more with Miranda Miller.

To find the Rapha X Maghalie collection: Click here.

To follow Miranda: Click here.