Liz Donahey’s Traction: a Mountain Biking Podcast

On Sunday, January 29 at 10 am, I represented my team Hella Mello Racing (HRM), the North Bay's Premier Women's Cycling Team, raced and won my first mountain biking race of the season at the Granite Bay MTB Challenge 2023, Cross-Country Mountain Race at Folsom Lake in California. This awesome race was put on by TBF, Total Body Fitness. Learn how I prepped my gear, my mind, and my body to step up t...

I’ve been waiting for 2023 for too long that’s it’s become a symbol of accomplishments surrounding the 23 principles of mountain biking, my ultimate passion projects waiting to be born.

This Thanksgiving, I’m reminded of the things I’m thankful for within my MTB life and community and push myself to be even more thankful about the things that I take for granted. Be thankful.

I think I’m going through a growth spurt, even though most people my age at 47-year old may not think this is possible, but I do. I think we can grow younger, not older if we make the conscious decision to devote our physical and mental energy towards living , not dying. From the moment we wake up to the time we fall asleep, we can choose the feelings, actions, and behaviors that keep us growing y...

Studies have shown that couples who do adventurous activities together stimulate bonding chemicals, which makes their time together more fun and happy and healthy. In this episode, I talk about the need to find time with your partner that brings out the adventure side and yourselves like mountain biking does for me and my boyfriend. I share our first mountain biking day and the crazy adventure we...

In this episodes, I take you on a quick tour of my daily morning routine, not to bore you with all the minute details, but to talk about the Principles around having a repeatable and healthy routines that make us stronger healthier and happier every day.

It’s been a crazy for weeks and it all had to do with me breaking my blonde hair and losing my confidence and self-esteem that I’ve been taking for granted.

I crashed so hard last Monday, June 6th. I slammed down into the ground hitting my shoulder on a really easy trail that I've done a million times before. I'm now learning how to deal with the body pain and lack of movement, and the threat of not being able to do what I love do the most. 

This was one of the most difficult cross country mountain biking races on Strava to finish within the top 10. Man did I work hard and learn a lot on this race. Check it out!

I am so thrilled to share with you the experiences and preparation that occurred leading up to me winning first place at the Skyline XC cross country race 1-lap in Napa California last weekend!

Stay Balanced. If you move in too many directions, or extremes, you’re going to lose your balance, fall, fail, and perhaps hurt yourself or others on your way down.

If you want to go fast especially downhill on things that are dangerous in risky and Ne-Yo and challenging then get off the brakes and trust yourself.

No matter how much success and wealth we accumulate, the relationships we establish with others our children or family or friends or coworkers, it doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t feel great and wonderful if it’s not driven by passion. What’s your passion? Why is it important to have? Let’s dive in.

In this episode, I talk about the process, challenges, feelings, and experience of joining the premier women’s cycling team, Hella Mello Racing🦩(MTB community calls us flamingos) that is bigger than yourself and beyond the self or individual.

When it come to getting through challenges in life or business, it can come down to whether or not you’re capable enough to keep moving up when around tricky situations like riding around a tough switchback up the hill or back down it to get to your destination. Subscribe Now

Being kind to your partners is sometimes more important than being correct. You might be really surprised at how many partners you actually have in your personal and business life. They all play an important part of our overall happiness, wellbeing, growth and success to we must become experts on our partners. 

Sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know and it’s better to research the unknowns and eliminate challenging factors that are just going to get us completely stuck in the mud. This is just like it happen today when I made an assumption that conditions would be better and easier riding after the rain on a simpler mountain, but no. You’ll find out why.

I just got back last week from central California winning 3rd place and my first podium medal in the Exchequer mountain biking extravaganza in La Grange, California. I learned a ton about what it took to win something and all the sweets and people that needed to align in order for it to come together. It took a village. Surround yourself mister a team and go after what you love most in life. Now w...

Yesterday I rode in Calistoga on a trail called Oak Hill mine. It is infamous for being treacherous and challenging and dangerous. So when we’re in those difficult life challenges there’s things that mountain biking and crashing on your mountain bike will teach you about how to go best about trying new challenges and taking it as an opportunity to grow and not go backwards.

We have to let outselves get outside and play every once in a while. It’s good for our hearts and it’s good for our minds and is good for our souls. Just because we’re not kids anymore, as adults we need to remember to connect back with that inner child and get outside and play.

Liz Donahey with the 23 Principles and guest Natalie Mannherz, an Occupational Therapist and busy new mother of two young boys, discuss the rewards and benefits of advocating for time for dedicated self-care every day.

Yes, we’re all super busy with competing demands from our work, households, families, and friends. Great improvements can happen in our lives if we are not afraid to schedule regular times every day to taking care of our bodies and minds.

Greg Dickerson leads us through how to best manage our fears that can hold us back from accomplishing our goals. Whether we’re living through unpredictable times, or simply our everyday lives, our fears can stop us from reaching our potential. In this episode, Greg inspires us with his belief that the only thing we should be fearing is not going after our goals and dreams.

Liz Donahey’s Mountain Biking Podcast “Traction” is an auto-biography rich with life lessons, as an American mountain biker and single mom of three young daughters, battling it out on and off the trails.