In this episode, a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to be a professional cyclist—and a member of a very young team on the front end of what they hope is a thrilling, lucrative career riding with, and against, the best cyclists in the world. You'll hear from Axel Merckx and from several other voices that evoke the joy, promise and struggle of being a hugely talented work-in-progress, with your athletic life ahead of you.

Kara Winger, three-time Olympian and 8-time U.S. National Champion, is one of the best at what may be track and field's most idiosyncratic sport: javelin throwing. Kara talks about her mental game, and how it helps her set big but achievable goals. And with a degree in fitness, nutrition and health, she's refreshingly open and insightful about weight and body image in sport. She talks about how her views have evolved & about how it felt to hit a new milestone when she stepped on a scale last spring.

In this episode, elite marathoner and Hive Platinum athlete Jared Ward, who is preparing to run in the Olympic Marathon Trials. He enters the Trials with the field's fourth-fastest qualifying time—2:09:25, which he ran in Boston. Jared finished sixth in the heat at the 2016 Games in Rio. He discovered afterward that he had a fractured pelvis, which changed his approach to marathoning and opened his eyes to the importance of balance and injury-prevention. He talks about things that all marathoners are familiar with—and usually dread: fear, anxiety, and the inevitable presence of pain.

Ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson is a two-time Olympian, three-time National Champion and current member of the USA Nordic National Team. In 2012, Sarah won her first World Cup at the age of 18, and a year later she won the very first Women's World Championship. Now 25, Sarah is one of her sport's most successful jumpers and among its most dedicated and inspiring. But she's also dealt with multiple injuries in her career—serious ones. She talks about her struggles, comebacks and what she's learned from both.

Episode 20 features our first winter athlete, Chris Rogers. Rogers is a snowboarder and master snowboard instructor who knows more about the sport than anyone as a result of his decades of riding, competing and coaching. He talks about the unique joys and idiosyncrasies of snowboarding, how he accidentally built a career out of his passion, and how you can too! Best of all, he emphasizes the importance and the value of teaching and learning, and the connection that exists between them.

The first episode of the new year is a sports-nutrition special featuring Kayla Martin, a consultant with Honey Stinger and the Director for Performance Nutrition at Penn State University. Kayla, who's also a runner, talks about how she balances the needs of the 800 athletes under her nutritional care, about what you should eat and—just as crucially—when you should eat it, and about how both of those priorities vary from sport to sport and athlete to athlete.

In our first episode recorded in front of a live audience, at the New York Road Runners' RUN CENTER in Manhattan, host David Willey talks with 8 Hive athletes the day before they ran the TCS New York City Marathon. The runners, a mix of elites, first-timers and avid athletes who've overcome adversity share their hard-earned insights into training, nutrition, motivation and the power of the running community.

Ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter talks with host David Willey a few weeks after completing 143 miles at the 24-Hour World Championships, despite a hip injury that had caused a rare DNF at the Western States 100 in June. Courtney discusses that "wake-up call," as well as her unorthodox training methods, how she fuels herself for such long races, and the time she went blind during a 100-mile race...and continued running anyway. She also shares what she loves so much about this demanding, transcendent sport.

Episode 16 is our first on-the-ride interview, with track cyclist, Mandy Marquardt, who races for team Novo Nordisk. To give you a sense for what it's like to sprint around a track at over 40 mph, we mic'd Mandy during a short but lung-searing acceleration known as a jump. Mandy is an 18-time national champion and a 2-time U.S. national record-holder. She talks about how important nutrition is in managing her Type 1 diabetes, her goals and the hardest but most fulfilling parts of this fascinating sport.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and in the next two episodes we're featuring Team Novo Nordisk, the world's first all-diabetes professional cycling team. Lakota Phippen, one of the team's most inspiring athletes, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 24. Fueling properly can be tough for any athlete and even harder for diabetics. Lakota talks about managing the disease, what it's like to inject himself with insulin during a race, and why, for him, honey is the lifeblood of much-needed energy.