Elizabeth Emery's guests this month are Laura Crawford from Adventure Cycling Association and Caren Hartley of Hartley Cycles. Laura, an expert and pro in bike tourism, is the U.S. Bicycle Route System Coordinator at Adventure Cycling Association and she chats about her short term and long term goals. In 2009, Laura and her partner Russ founded The Path Less Pedaled, when they sold everything to travel by bike. Caren Hartley founded award-winning Hartley Cycles as the only female UK bike builder and is still one of the few. One of her primary interests is making bikes that fit all people – short and tall. They discussed her transition from fine art to making something functional, being a business woman, the appeal of 650 wheels, and of course, building bikes.

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Ultra runner Courtney Dauwalter recently won the Moab 240 Mile Endurance Run outright by more than 10 hours. The Colorado resident grew up in Minnesota where she competed on the cross-country, track and Nordic-ski teams at her high school - she was an All American for Nordic - and went on to race for the Division I Nordic team at the University of Denver. She has been trail racing for six years now but it was just last year that she captured the attention of the sport with wins at Colorado’s Run Rabbit Run 100 and Arizona’s Javelina Jundred 100K (overall), where she broke both the women’s course record and the overall course record. Four months later in February this year, she set a new American women’s 24-hour record at the Riverbank One Day 24-Hour race in California, running 155.4 miles. The Moab 240 involves anywhere from three to five days on course and traces a giant, single loop of 240-miles with 29,467 feet of elevation gain and descent through the canyons and mountains of eastern Utah. For more conversations from the world of women's sport visit www.wispsports.com and join in the conversation on our social media channels @WiSP Sports or drop us a line to [email protected].

With the Audi FIS World Cup ski season starting this weekend in Soeldon, Gabbi Hall catches up with Italy's alpine star Sofia Goggia to hear about her plans for the season including the Olympic Games. The also discuss pressing issues like cooking, and whether Sofia prefers peanut butter or maple syrup when she races in Vermont. And Gabbi tells us why she loves following Sofia on Instagram! Plus there's the latest news of injuries; who's on and who's off the slopes and other insights in Fresh Tracks. For more conversations from the world of women's sport visit www.wispsports.com and follow us on social media @WiSP Sports and @SkiRacingMedia. The Inside Line is a co-production of WiSP Sports and Ski Racing Media.

Kendra Fisher is a Canadian ice hockey goalie and inline hockey player although her story today is not so much about her successes as a professional athlete as the mental illness that changed the course of her career. As a young player she achieved considerable success and was at the point of trying out for the Canadian team when the physical symptoms stopped her in her tracks. She was eventually diagnosed with a Severe Anxiety Disorder, Severe Panic Attacks, Depression and Agoraphobia which were to change her forever. She was forced to leave the national program and put her health first, which took years of treatment and adjustment to learn to live with her mental illness. Kendra has reached a point where she has the tools to manage her conditions and is in a position to help others through motivational speaking and her website Mentally Fit. To find out more about visit mentallyfit.com. For more conversations from the world of women’s sport visit us at www.wispsports.com and follow us on social media @WiSPsports.

Ash Nelson's guest this month is Team USA forward Michelle Vitesse who competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games where the team finished 12th and four years later in Rio where they finished 5th. In addition Michelle has a gold medal collection from the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games, 2014 Champions Challenge and 2017 World League.  She describes herself as 'a bit hard-headed—a loud personality in a little body'! We find out how her personality has evolved and effected her as an athlete, how she deals with change, especially with team coaches and her weirdest dream. For other conversations from the world of women’s sport, visit www.wispsports.com where you find more show notes for this episode, and follow us on social media @WiSP Sports.