The Endurance Studio

✨ Support the Podcast ✨ Today’s returning guest is a multifaceted outdoor adventurer and entrepreneur. She is a life coach, founder of Dirt Town Adventures guiding company, outdoor educator, and an endurance athlete with a passion for helping others. In today’s conversation, we discuss her personal and professional evolution, coaching philosophy, technology and social interaction, personal growt...

✨ Support the Podcast ✨ In today's solo episode, I dive into a comprehensive exploration of the Garmin Edge 1040, sharing insights from my year of bikepacking experience. I cover everything from navigation features, battery performance, and charging strategies to tips for optimizing settings for long-distance adventures. I also discuss the nuances of using mobile devices for route management...

✨ Support the Podcast ✨ Today’s guest is a pioneering endurance cyclist, Arizona Endurance Series organizer, mastermind of The Queen’s Ransom Bikepacking route, Triple Crown finisher, and the Race Director for the Arizona Trail Mountain Bike Race. In today’s conversation, we dive into the evolution of the Arizona Trail Race, navigating rules, fairness, route changes and FKT’s (fastest known time...

Think you might have a concussion? 👉🏻 Click Here ✨ Support the Podcast ✨ Today’s guest is a professional adventure athlete, doctor of physical therapy, performance coach and an outspoken advocate and recovery specialist for concussions and traumatic brain injury awareness, rehabilitation and mentorship. She’s had first had experience with concussions and TBI’s and in today’s conversation we’re...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest is a documentary filmmaker, relentless bikepack racer, and an all around incredible, thoughtful amazing human. I had the opportunity to get to know him better on the last couple days of the Colorado Trail Race as we pushed our bikes through the night together for endless miles. He’s had a year of difficult race finishes including Arizona Trail Race 300, Th...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guests have come all the way from Morpeth England to participate in and finish the Arizona Trail 800 mountain bike race. They are a father and son team that persisted against the physical and environmental adversity dished out by this daunting trail. Together, they experienced extreme heat, cold, thirst, hunger, pain and joy throughout their journey that ended u...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s returning guest just completed an epic single speed journey on the Arizona Trail 800 Ultra Endurance Mountain Bike Race. She completed the 837 mile trail with over 100,000’ of elevation gain in 11 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes. She is a veteran, mom, wife, nurse practitioner, bike shop mechanic, and enduro racer turned bikepacker. At the time of this recording,...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ I met today’s guest at a local running group here in Flagstaff and there I learned how fast and accomplished he is as a runner. He’s raced distances from one mile to 60k and his sweet spot seems to be the 50k distance. He recently completed his first triathlon, placed 8th overall in the Crown King Scramble, 3rd overall in the Adrenaline 50K night run , 2nd overall at th...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest is one of the most unique humans I’ve had the privilege to get to know. He is an ultra endurance bikepacker, runner and all around trail crusher. He recently completed the 2024 Gunny Loopy Loop and is planning to be at the start line of the Arizona Trail 800 grand depart this year. ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/bodhi.roether/ ----------------...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ In today’s episode, Tyler Hughes joins me for a deep dive debrief on my 2024 Colorado Trail Race. ---------------- This episode is brought to you by: Squirrel's Nut Butter - https://squirrelsnutbutter.com/discount/ENDURANCE15 Use code "Endurance15" for 15% off! Embark Maple Energy - https://www.embarkmaple.com Use code “EMBARK20” for 20% off! -------------...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest has spent her life studying and coaching the mental and psychological aspects of endurance sports and she has become an expert in that arena. She is a sports performance psychologist and has her masters degree in applied positive psychology.  ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/shannonleighthompson/ https://sweetperformances.wordpress.com/about-shan...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guests finished 1st place male single speed and 2nd place female on the 2024 Colorado Trail Race. They are incredible and inspirational bikepackers and I’m honored to sit with them for a little CTR debrief. ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/matt.annabel/ https://www.instagram.com/karin_pocock/ https://jwookieone.com ---------------- This episode is brou...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest hails from the Driftless region of Wisconsin and is a maple syrup farmer. He is the co-founder of Embark Good Maple Energy and we’re sitting here near the start of the Colorado Trail Race which we will both be racing/surviving this year as part of the grand depart. This will be his first bikepacking race and he’s jumping into the deep end of the pool with...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guests both just completed the 2024 Bones to Blue bikepacking race that started in Truckee California and made a big lap around Lake Tahoe. The course is 250 miles with 31,000 feet of elevation gain and it’s in a historic and beautiful part of the Sierra Nevadas. They’re both fast bikepackers and finished 1st place in their respective classes. ---------------- h...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ In today’s solo episode, I’ll share my thoughts on the pros, cons and the reason why I sold my SRAM AXS wireless shifting to go back to traditional cable shifting for bikepacking and longer endurance rides. ---------------- https://www.sram.com/en/sram/mountain/series/gx-eagle-axs https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/product/component/grx-di2.html https://mtb.shimano.com/prod...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guests are by far the most hardcore couple I know. They have extensive ultra endurance resumes and you may know them by their slightly intimidating nicknames, El Freako and Turbo. Jeff Hemperley & Holly Hovious are both leaving their mark on the ultra endurance running and bikepacking community. ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/el.freako.racing/ ht...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s episode features Nico Francis (They/Them), a veteran climber, backpacker and outdoors person who is new to the bikepacking world. Nico reached out to me through a mutual friend with a bunch of bikepacking questions. So I thought let’s turn this into a sort of Q&A and capture this on a podcast so everybody can benefit. If you’re a new bikepacker today’s episo...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest is an elite cross country mountain biker and gravel racer, graphic designer, real estate agent, dad, and the host of the Stoke Podcast. ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/stokepodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/stories/quinntravisss/ ---------------- This episode is brought to you by Squirrel's Nut Butter - https://squirrelsnutbutter.com/discou...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today I have my first power couple on the podcast. They both recently completed the Cocodona 250 mile running race and they lived to tell about it. I’d like to welcome to the podcast Austin Corbett and Carrie Henderson. ---------------- https://cocodona.com/ https://www.instagram.com/austcorb/ https://www.instagram.com/carrie.jane.outdoors/ https://kahtoola.com/ https:/...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest recently finished the 2024 Pinyons and Pines Bikepacking race in 2 days, 6 hours, and 30 minutes placing her/them first in the non-binary category and 8th overall. She/they is a talented rider and bikepacker and has completed the Colorado Trail Race and toured the Arizona Trail. ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/frances.lilly.hacker/ -------------...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s returning guest is an ultra endurance runner and just completed for the 2nd time the Cocodona 250 mile running race. She is my wife and was my first podcast guest and in today’s episode we debrief from the race. ---------------- https://cocodona.com ---------------- Amazing Products/Companies I Use Squirrel's Nut Butter - https://squirrelsnutbutter.com/disco...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest is a math professor, race director for Pinyons and Pines, and he just set the FKT (or fastest known time) on the Race Across Arizona - a 616 mile gravel route across the state of Arizona which starts on the western border of in Topock and ends on the eastern border in Alpine and has a cumulative gain of 66,000 feet. This is his second time on the podcast....

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest just finished the 2024 edition of the Pinyons and Pines bikepacking race and has an extensive ultra endurance resume including racing the Tour Divide, the Arizona Trail Race 750, Stagecoach 400, Smoke and Fire 400, Comstock Epic, Coconino 250, Oregon Outback, California Sierra Trail Race, Trans Norcal, JP’s Fat Pursuit and many others. He is 62 years young...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ Today’s guest is a devoted bikepacker, tattoo artist, and race director for the Stagecoach 400 bikepacking race. She’s become a staple of the bikepacking community and a caring and kind human being. ---------------- https://www.instagram.com/speedmeow/ https://www.instagram.com/stagecoach400/ https://socalenduro.wordpress.com/stagecoach-400/ ---------------- Amazing Pro...

✨ ⁠Support the Podcast⁠ ✨ In today’s episode, I setup the Endurance Studio Tent at the pre-race gathering on the 2024 edition of Pinyons and Pines. This episode slices and dices those mini interviews together, along with some bonus content. ---------------- https://danaernst.com/PinyonsPines/ https://www.instagram.com/pinyonspinesbikepackingride/ ---------------- Amazing Products/Companies I Use...