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Muddy Mondays are presented to you by SRAM and Rapha.

We take you with us into this World Championships weekend. Maghalie and David talk about their own experience, plus hear from: 

• The first ever Relay
• Course creator Adrie van der Poel 
• Sven Nys gives us his predictions
• Lucinda Brand on her bronze medal 
• Junior World Champion Isabella Holmgren and 2nd place Ava
• The mastermind behind the success: Robert Holmgren 
• 14 World Cups with Sidney McGill and her dad 
• Jeremy Powers on the state of the sport 
• Mike van den Ham and AJ August: Toughest men on course? 
• and more... 

0 to 15minutes What does World Championships mean?

15:30 - 18:08 : Holmgren sisters win Worlds

18:30 - 28:00 Maghalie's race recap

28:00 - 33:00 Team Relay

33:39 - 36:46 - Logistics of flying home

37:07 - 56:30 - Snippets

56:30 - 1:06 - Answering your Questions

Muddy Mondays are presented to you by Rapha and SRAM 

On this episode, Maghalie opens up about finally reconnecting with pre-race nerves. Canadian juniors make history, so we talk about it and hear directly from Ian Ackert, and the Holmgren sisters. We talk to race winner Puck Pieterse and her dad, hear from the french team AS Bike Cross and French Champion Helene Clauzel. Plus, we answer your questions, and more! 

Stay tuned for the custom “Maghalie” Rapha kit going on sale soon! 

Muddy Mondays are presented to you by SRAM and Rapha

This week, Maghalie and David talk about the amazing event that was the Benidorm World Cup in Spain. We talk about the course: Is it true that it was a road race? We talk about the race: Maghalie felt better than she had all year and battles through a big field to finish 9th in a last lap battle with Marianne Vos. Also, why ddid Maghalie finally feel so much stronger? We talk about the Spanish cyclocross culture and the fans...and way more!

As usual, we also answer your questions. Cheers everyone!

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

On the kit, each color 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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The first episode is on the emotion of Happiness. This emotion is represented by yellow on the kit…because yellow always makes me smile. It is, to me a joyful color. 

So who better to talk about fun and happiness than professional off road racer Sarah Sturm? Sarah is a gravel and off road athlete, as well as a very creative person. Her smile can be seen from miles away, and she has one of the most contagious positive energy. This summer, Sarah started a campaign called : “It’s supposed to be fun” where she encourages people to go back to the root of what they love about cycling, and make sure to connect with that. 

Can fun and performance coexist? Does everything always have to be fun? 

We’ll dig into that, and way more.

The Muddy Mondays series is presented to you by SRAM and Rapha.

Maghalie and David were not racing this weekend. So we take this opportunity to answer YOUR questions that were sent by the audience.

Some of the questions we received and discuss upon include: Is cyclocross the best "school" of cycling? Do we fuel in a cyclocross race? Will Maghalie be racing mountain bike in 2023? What from the North American CX scene would we like to see in Europe and vice versa? And more...

If Zonhoven is on the calendar next year, do we stay to do it?

Maghalie and David talk about their first experience racing the iconic Zonhoven course. We talk about the rise of the Junior Canadian women to the top of the Nations ranking. We discuss the ins and outs of racing in the sand. Could a dropper post be good at Zonhoven?

We also hear from Stefan Wyman about how he feels the sport changed in the last 4 years. We hear from Magnus Backstëdt, Stephen Hyde, Clara Honsigner and Zonhoven fan Martin Dufort.

Plus, we answer the questions of the week:

Is there ever a bad day in the pits? What is the worse that ever happened to us? And, how do we balance a long and busy cyclocross season? Is it better to chase points and money, or to target big events?

Muddy Mondays are presented to you by SRAM and Rapha.

Muddy Mondays are brought to you by Rapha and SRAM.

On this episode, we have a lot of snippets to bring you right into the atmosphere of the Herentals round of the X2O Badkamers Troffee race! twenty thousand fans lined up the course on this old "ski berg" on a Tuesday! What?!

Hear about how SRAM supports their teams and athletes...it ggoes way deeper than the equipment! Then, hear from: Sanne Cant's dad, Cameron Mason, Aniek van Alphen and her mom, Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado, Lucinda Brand's boyfriend Lieven, Blanka Vas, Lars Boom, and much more.

Plus, hear from the owners of the famous Fixed Gear Coffee shop.

The Muddy Mondays series is presented to you by SRAM and Rapha.

On this episode, we dig deep into what goes on in the mechanic's pits of muddy cyclocross races. We sit down with professional mechanics David, as well as Chris McGovern and Charlie Backus from the Steve Tilford Foundation team to discuss everything from: How do they communicate with riders during a race? Why they team up together? Do they have to fight for the pressure washer? Is there a hierarchy? What are the best strategies? And much more.

Plus, we talk about the GP Sven Nys in Baal, and here snippets from the Canadian Holmgren sisters who won their first race in Belgium, some fans who choose to spend their new year in the mud, superstar sprinter Lorena Wiebes on why she's racing cyclocross, and more.

0-8:30 : Maghalie and David recap of GP Sven Nys

8:30- 17:18 : Snippets from the race

17:20 - 51:00 Interview with pro mechanics: What goes on in the pits?

Muddy Mondays are presented to you by SRAM and Rapha

Happy holidays everyone! We are at the beginning of the Kerstperiod of cyclocross racing in Belgium. Now be ready, this is a good one, because we have Maddie Munro from Trek Factory Racing who joins us to discuss the Gavere World Cup!

We discuss: Maddie's awesome performance, and what was her mindset during the race. Why Maghalie wasn't able to finish the race? We hear from the 3 Steve Tilford Foundation team mechanics about how they experienced the pit during the muddiest race of the year, and what kind of work they have to do on bikes after such a race, and more.

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This week, Maghalie and David race their first World Cup of the year in Val di Sole, Italy. They chat with fellow racer Caitlin Bernstein and her husband Franz, with whom they spent the weekend. Hear all about the constantly changing race course conditions, the riding and mechanical challenges of racing in the cold and snow, their warm welcome in a German home, and more. Also hear about the battle for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th place in the women's race with perspective from each riders including Silvia Persico and Manon Bakker!

Rapha item of the week: This Merino base layer that we wore under our race skinsuit.

SRAM item of the week: SRAM AXS e-Tap shifters that allow you to shift properly even when you don't feel your fingers!