By Kyla Channell, MSc Nutrition & Human Performance
Nutritional Revolution (NR) was created when owner Kyla Channell saw that there was a true disconnect between daily nutrition and nutrition for athletes. Specifically on when and how to use specifi
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In this week's episode we talk with 2024 Gravel National Champion, Brennan Wertz about:
Brennan Wertz is the current U.S. Gravel National Champion and comes from Northern California. He has been racing the global gravel circuit since 2021, during which time he has achieved top results at many of the most prestigious U.S. gravel races. Most recently he was crowned National Champion at the Nationals in Gering, Nebraska.
Prior to getting into cycling, Brennan spent 7 years as an elite rower. He rowed at Stanford University and with the United States National Team and in 2018 he won the Under 23 Rowing World Championship.
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In this week's episode we talk with researchers Amanda Regnier and Eli Shannon about:
Amanda Regnier is a PhD student in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition, with a research focus on sodium bicarbonate supplementation in females. She is deeply passionate about endurance physiology and has a specific interest in coaching half marathon, marathon and ultramarathon runners. In her spare time she enjoys road cycling and hiking in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Through her research and coaching, she aims to empower others to reach their full athletic potential.
Eli Shannon is currently a PhD candidate in Exercise Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom (UK). Eli's research interests center on enhancing exercise performance, particularly through physiological and nutritional interventions. Prior to arriving at Edge Hill University, Eli spent four years playing full-time soccer against professional academies at the i2i International Soccer Academy whilst completing his Bachelor's in Sport and Exercise Science (BSc, Hons) and his Masters of Science by Research (MSc by Research) at York St. John University in York, UK.
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In this week's episode we talk to Leadville 100 MTB Winner, Melisa Rollins about:
Melisa Rollins is a professional cyclist who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She started cycling casually in 2016 when she signed up for the Leadville Trail 100 MTB on a whim— a race her parents had been racing every year for nearly 2 decades. Crossing the finish line in Leadville that year lit a fire in her, and she went back almost every year with the simple goal of being faster than her previous self. In 2021 her result at Leadville led her to her first pro-contract with Team Twenty24. Here, she had the opportunity to become a more well-rounded bike racer and race many disciplines: road, gravel, mountain bike, time trial, and criteriums. She learned she loves racing just about any discipline on two wheels, and is always eager to spread positivity on the bike.
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In this week's episode we talk to cyclist and content creator Faith Irvin about:
When cycling enthusiast Faith Irvin isn’t running her business or raising her family, you’ll probably find her on her bike. She started road cycling about five years ago, eventually transitioned into racing. She’s currently training for Criteriums as a cat 3 racer. Her goal of sharing her experiences as an everyday hotmess cyclist allows everyone to see the ups and downs of balancing life on the bike and life at home, and hopefully laugh about it alongside her.
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In this week's episode we talk to researcher and nutrition scientist, Kyle Pfaffenbbach about:
Kyle Pfaffenbach is currently an Assistant Professor at Eastern Oregon University. His academic training has provided him a diverse background in a variety of fields ranging from sports performance to cancer biochemistry. He holds a MS in exercise science, PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Norris Cancer Center at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. While he teaches a variety of classes for the Eastern Oregon University's Health and Human Performance Department, his main focus is on the cellular physiology of exercise, nutrition for health, and nutrition for sport performance.
Kyle also is a seasoned performance nutrition consultant with 10 years of experience working with a variety of elite athletes including the Brooks Beast Track Club. Outside of teaching he enjoys the outdoor recreation offered in eastern Oregon, including mountain biking, running, skiing, and fly-fishing.
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In this week's episode we talk to Sarah Sturm, a Nutritional Revolution athlete and the recent winner of the Migration Gravel Race on the Maasai Mara in Kenya:
Sarah Sturm is a professional off-road cyclist, who lives in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. She grew up playing all sorts of sports, but didn't start riding until she moved to Durango, Colorado for college, where she joined the cycling team. Sarah turned pro in 2018, racing the international cyclocross circuit. In 2019, she won her first big gravel race, changing the trajectory of her whole career. Sarah continues to race and adventure all over the world, utilizing her bicycle as a way to connect with new places and people, but she’ll always love returning home to her favorite place, the Southwest.
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In this week's episode we talk to recent Cocodona 250 and Tahoe 200 winner (and mountaineer and environmental scientist), Haroldas Subertas about:
Harry Subertas is an ultrarunner, mountaineer, and environmental scientist. He was born and raised in Lithuania and moved to the US just before his 18th birthday. After working a handful of jobs and taking some classes at a local community college in New Jersey, he moved to Southeast Alaska and enrolled in a semester-long mountaineering course. He was offered a guiding position immediately after completing the course, and continued his professional guiding career for seven years. He has summited some of the world’s most notorious mountains including Denali and Aconcagua. In 2021, he went back to school at the University of Southeast Alaska, Juneau, and earned his degree in environmental science. Harry is also an avid backcountry skier and ice climber.
He has a diverse skillset within ultrarunning, having set course records in the last year at the Cocodona 250 in Flagstaff, AZ, and the Marlette 50k in Lake Tahoe. He has won three other 200 milers, three 100 milers, and run up countless 14ers in his spare time. At multi-day races, he is known for crossing the finish line and then volunteering at aid stations for the remainder of the race. Since the summer of 2023, he has lived in South Lake Tahoe, CA and Reno, NV with his partner, whom he met while volunteering at an aid station at the Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Run.
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In this week's episode we talk to adventure athlete, mountaineer guide and general fan of VLDs (Very Long Distances), Sunny Stroeer about:
Sunny is a free spirit and adventurer. During her 20s, she was a hard-charging Harvard MBA strategy consultant, but at age 30, she turned her back on material possessions and her career in order to live in an Astrovan so she could run and climb full-time instead.
Her overarching passion is to be active and push her limits in the side- and backcountry, spanning a multitude of sports from big-wall climbs over multi-day paddling trips, to 100 milers, and everything in between. Her specialty is the high altitude endurance realm; she holds speed records on Aconcagua and on the Annapurna Circuit and has excelled on high trails in the Colorado Rockies. She most recently completed the Iditarod on skis.
Sunny and her husband Paul (and husky Dasher) live in Southern Utan and run a hiking and backcountry guide service, and she also founded and runs a mountaineering expedition company for women, by women. She also serves as the executive director for the AWE Summit Scholarship Foundation, which works to increase gender equity on and off the mountains.
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In this week's episode we talk to world-class athlete and overall badass, Rebecca Rusch about:
Rebecca Rusch, revered as a world-class explorer, athlete, and advocate, has carved a niche for herself within the cycling world and beyond. Renowned for her seven-time World Championship titles across diverse disciplines and her induction into both the Mountain Bike and Gravel Hall of Fame, Rebecca's accolades mirror her extraordinary commitment to excellence. Beyond competition, she is an author, CEO of Rusch Ventures, founder of Rebecca’s Private Idaho gravel event, and has received an Emmy Award for her documentary film Blood Road. Through starting the Be GoodTM Foundation, Rebecca channels her passion for cycling into community building, human transformation and global health impact.
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In this week's episode we talk to mountain bikers / bikepacking experts Kait Boyle and Kurt Refsnider about their epic adventure riding from their doorsteps to Emporia, Kansas, for Unbound XL.
Kait Boyle discovered the mountain bike amidst a career in outdoor education and quickly fell in love with bikepacking, which dominoed into pursuing long bikepacking expeditions around the world. She went on to win a 24-hr World Championship, set records in self-supported ultras, including being the 2x winner at the Arizona Trail 300. She survived and overcame a traumatic car accident, which ultimately led her to where she is now - a passionate and dedicated backcountry mountain biker who rides to go deeper, connect to place and people, and expand her limits.
She co-founded Bikepacking Roots with co-guest Kurt Refsnider, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to bikepacking. She serves on the board of Mountain Bike the Tetons and is one of the first Protect Our Winter Bike Athlete Alliance members.
Kurt Refsnider is a (also the) co-founder of and Routes Director at Bikepacking Roots, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the growing bikepacking community. Kurt holds a Ph.D. in geological sciences and was a professor of geology at Prescott College for 6 years and coached the Prescott College Cycling Team for 3 years. There he also co-developed the first college-level course to involve bikepacking – Geology through Bikepacking. He's won the Tour Divide, and has 8 wins/records at the Arizona Trail 300, and most recently at taping he snagged a Top 10 finish at Unbound XL after riding more than 1,000 miles from his home in Arizona to Emporia.
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