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Geoff and Gerry had a great conversation with Lenny Ramsey. We talked about how Lenny got started with Triathlon after moving to the US and playing soccer prior, how injuries led her to Running, Swimming and Cycling. Lenny discusses how she balances work, family, friends and her professional triathlon career. Of course, we talk about the impact of the pandemic and her goals for 2021.Lenny Ramsey is a Dutch Neuroscientist and Professional Triathlete living in the USA.A lifelong athlete, Lenny ...

In this podcast, we interview Erik Nijland.63 years old, born in the Netherlands, currently lives in Bolivia at 2650m altitude, 100% passionate about cycling and a globetrotter.His favorite sport is........ ice speed skating! As we talked about in previous podcasts, skating and cycling are closely related from a movement perspective. Many (long-distance) ice speed skaters use cycling during the off-season (summertime) to train and maintain form.Erik participated in the last 11cities Tour in F...

In this podcast, Geoff and Gerry speak with Bob Aceto. Bob works at a local bike shop and spent his whole professional career in cycling retail and wholesale. He offers a pretty cool insight into these parts of the cycling industry. Bob got into cycling, having to rehab from a knee injury acquired in wrestling. Due to this injury's severeness, running was not an option, so he was left swimming or cycling. After dabbling in swimming for a while, he tried cycling because a group of local f...

This episode is an unusual and relatively short podcast where Erik and Gerry discuss the road to 100 miles on Zwift late January 2021. Erik and Gerry came up with this idea recently discussing cycling goals during the fall and wintertime and how to get ready for the 2021 cycling season. The days are getting shorter, and depending on where you live, the weather might be impacting your outdoor rides. The goal is to complete a 100 miles ride on Zwift during the last weekend of January ...

In this podcast, Geoff & Gerry speak with Blair Saunders.Blair Saunders. Originally from Canada, he started with hockey before moving into cycling. Winner of Olympic trials in 1992, he represented Canada in 13 international events as a member of the Canadian National Road, Team Time Trial, and Track team. Lately, Blair performed at a high level competing in multistage mountain bike events like Cape Epic. He also enjoys multisport events like Ironman Triathlons, Xterra off-road triat...

In this episode Gerry and Geoff interview Gregg Germer who owns the ChainStay in Belgium.Gregg is a former professional cyclist who used to go back and forward between the US and Belgium for 6 years to race in Europe. Getting over there was always an adventure so he figured he could offer a better solution for cyclist from abroad providing them with a place to stay for an extended period of time. "its like a bed & breakfast, without the breakfast".He share what Kermesse racing is and why ...

In this podcast we interview Thomas Gibbons. Tom is the current 2019 overall USA Crits Champion and raced pro-continental for a number of years over in Europe. We talk about how Thomas got into cycling and what it was like living in Belgium and racing for teams like Wanty-Gober.Tom has got a great story how he picked the wheel of Tony Martin and ended up in an echelon with the Jumbo team during the Tour the Britain. We discuss the reason behind starting his own team Automatic Racing and his c...

Geoff, Josh and Gerry review the first 3 stages of the 2020 Tour de France. Rain, crashes, Jumbo Visma leading the way, Julian Alaphilippe, another excellent 22 year old talent and an impressive sprint by Caleb Ewan!What will the next 5 days bring us, who are the riders that will perform as expected and do the guys predict any surprises?It is without a doubt a different TdF and Geoff, Josh and Gerry talk about covid and if the organization is using this year to test out certain concepts that ...

This is a lengthly cycling podcast but well worth your time! Whether you are a cycling fanatic, enthusiast or beginner, we highly recommend listening to our podcast with Jed Schneider.Jed is a former road and mountain bike professional who shares a TON of knowledge about technology, racing, zwift, directing, racing abroad and coaching talents and teams and much more. He talks about why he got into cycling and has some great anecdotes about racing and working with people like Bart Brentje...

Geoff & Gerry preview the 2020 Tour de France together with our special guest and friend of the show Josh Wagner.The show actually starts with Geoff asking Gerry to talk about his cycling background. Gerry goes into details how he started with cycling and makes a number of references to the Tour de France and riding in France.Geoff, Josh and Gerry share their opinions on general classification, who has the strongest team, what will the different stages bring us, will there be a surprise.....