WEBVTT - Broken But Still A Winner: How Haley Batten Defied Olympic Odds 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:07.640 Hey, folks, an American woman sets a teen USA record 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.600 in Paris. They give her her medal, and then they 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.000 give her an invoice for five hundred and sixty five dollars. 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.439 Welcome to this special episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. Now, 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.360 I think I described that correctly. The voice was not 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.480 for the metal, but for something else that Haley Badden 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:26.120 did in the race. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.120 Yes, apparently she went mistakenly through a lane that was 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.760 dedicated for taking on food or drink or having some 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.240 sort of mechanical issue. So the judges reviewed the footage 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.280 and saw that even though she went down the lane, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:46.120 she didn't eat anything and she didn't fix anything, so 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:47.080 she was fine. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.400 So the thank goodness, she wasn't disqualified. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.239 She went and I didn't really we were learning so 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.320 much about rules of a lot of these sports, and 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.600 in this mountain racing, mountain bike racing, the race that 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.880 she was in, Yes, you could be disqualified for some 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.360 like that. So we've been talking about dramas and points 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.920 and scoring and protests. It was happening in mountain bike 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.440 and even though it didn't get as much attention, it 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:09.119 was going on. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.840 Yeah, well, you know what we should ask the young 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.959 woman who actually won the silver medal, Haley Batten, twenty 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.000 five years old, and congratulations Haley. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.880 You're coming to us from Spain. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.560 Yeah yeah, I'm in Gerona, Spain right now, preparing for 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:26.520 World Championships. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.039 Yeah, okay, help us understand this? You preparing for You 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.479 should have been preparing for the Olympics the past four years. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.760 Now you're preparing for something else already. Is this just 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.039 the schedule for you? I guess world class mountain bikers. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.520 Yeah, I know, it's crazy how you invest so many 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.200 years in preparation for one day, one hour and a half. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:45.759 But yeah, no, pretty quickly. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.080 We still have a whole World Cup calendar and World 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.720 Championships events coming up, so yeah, it's you know, we 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.880 race for our factory teams as well and for you know, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.600 our nations you know at THEIST championship events. So yeah, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.440 the racing must go on for sure. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.880 I mean, it sounds like you're having fun while you're 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:04.320 doing it. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.080 Tell me, can you tell us how you celebrated your 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.800 silver metal victory and really, you know, breaking that barrier 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.440 that TJ just mentioned you this was the highest ever 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.000 finished for an American in this particular sport, so what 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.520 an incredible feed not just a metal but a record. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:23.360 Yeah, no, it is. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.600 It's kind of crazy when you put it that way, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.640 for sure. I I mean, everything's been a whirlwind for 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.119 the past week. I'd say, you know, you start the race, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.440 there's so much focus and preparation, you know, mental and 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.920 physical to get to that start line and then to 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.840 execute the day with you know, all the excitement, energy, so. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.320 Much going on in the race. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.160 And then you finish and pretty quickly, you know, I 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.239 had awards ceremony, anti doping, you rushed off to media. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.040 You're running all over the place and it's hard to 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.160 even process you know what happened when you cross the 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:54.920 finish line. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.280 But you know, it was really cool to go to 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:58.400 the Team USA house. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.919 I have in my family, my coach, all these people involved, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.760 and you know, the excitement around the Olympics for Team 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.040 USA is huge, right, It's not just an athlete stream, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.720 but it's really a childhood dream. So there's a lot 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.679 of energy and Team USA does it better than else 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.200 anybody else. I really believe, like it was really really 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.040 cool to be part of that. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.400 Well, yes, congratulations, you are a part of that. You 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.200 add it to that metal count. So congratulations, And we 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.480 were asking because it's funny, we're waiting on Haley to 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.080 come back and get a Heroes welcome. You're not going 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.960 to be home with that silver medal for a while, 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.200 because you can on vacation. You went to Paris and 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.560 now you're there. When will you actually set foot back 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:38.320 in the US. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.760 Yeah, so probably like the first week of September actually, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.760 So I've got a home there wins month, Yeah, to 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.960 prepare for World Championships in Andorra, and then right after 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.640 that race, I have a couple of days to pack 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.880 up my bags. I've been based here in Girona between 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.080 all the races, and yeah, then I go back to 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.320 Santa Cruz, California to be back with my family, which 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:59.160 will be really nice. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.560 So nice, the silver medal can can finally come home 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.680 back to the United States. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.720 It's heavy too, right, It's not easy to lug around. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.720 Yes, it's heavy, but it's it's worth the wait. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.800 Right, What was it like for you to have that 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.920 moment of glory realizing you won silver? But then how 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.640 quickly were you slapped with this fine and and how 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.920 are you feeling about that? Were you concerned it could 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.880 be an even harsher penalty. Give us a sense of 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.080 what that moment was like for you. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.960 Yeah, oh my gosh, no, you're bringing it back for sure. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.120 I mean you cross the finish line, there's all this 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.880 energy like I did it, you know, like, oh my gosh. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.200 And then you're pretty quickly, you know, you finish, people 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.599 are yelling at you, like to go through. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.200 Media and to get in line. You know, all these 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.720 people are asking questions. So you know, first I get 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.839 the media questions of oh, how is the race, like 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.440 how do you feel? And then all of a sudden, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.680 I'm going down the line and somebody's like, oh, you know, 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.040 you know you did this thing and the look that, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.599 and I'm like just saying, like, what are you talking about? 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.760 You know, I was honestly in shock. I had no 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.720 idea what was going on, and and they're like, you know, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.920 I mean a lot of it is you know, it 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.000 is media. You know, they're getting excited about something, and 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.040 they're definitely you know, building it up a bit. They 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.159 you know, they told me people would protest, but I've 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.960 talked to both Jenny and Puck, so nobody actually wanted 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.400 to protest. So yeah, it was definitely a lot of 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.400 slap in the face for sure after the race, and 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.560 you're just like kind of shocked about like one, you know, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.280 I'm never an athlete to try and ever take a shortcut, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:30.960 you know, to win a race. You know, that's not 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.279 who I am. That's not what I want to do. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.160 So to feel you know, one questioning, oh gosh, did 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.880 I do something wrong? You know, but to still hold 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.920 your head high was definitely a bit tricky. But no, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.320 at the end of the day, you know, these things 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.320 happen mound bike racing. I don't This isn't my first 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.120 mound bike race. I've been racing since I was like 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.719 nine years old. So we do a lot of World 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.160 Cup races, we have eighty year and these yeah, the 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:52.479 rules are there. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.599 And it happens. You know, this happens a lot in racing. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.000 And the feed zone's always been like a tricky area, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.520 you know, and when you're in the heat of the race, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.400 and I think they announced that rule, you know, in 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.600 the days leading up, but when you're racing, you know, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.039 you just you're in the moment you're going, you're getting 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.279 from point A to point B, and no, I respect 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.000 the rule and you know, I am you know, if 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.000 they need to find me for it, for doing something 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.359 just to keep you know, the racing, you know, in 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:18.359 the order that it needs to be. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.560 I'll respect that and I'll take it for sure. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.480 But can you tell during the race though I think 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.120 this happened on the next to last lap. You can 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.159 correct me if I'm wrong on that. But it happened. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.880 But when it happened, did you in the moment think 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.680 that there was a questionable thing you had done or 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:34.680 a rule you had broken? 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:35.760 No? 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.039 No, Like I said, I finished the race and I 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.279 had no idea what they were talking about. I was like, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.839 oh my god, did I in the last lap not 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.120 take a bottle or something like that? Like I said, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.960 the feed zones are They're the same way at every 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.400 World's Cup. It's like this. You know, one lane is 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.880 to the left, one lane to the right, and so yeah, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.800 I mean it was just I was just getting to 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.200 the finish line as fast as I could. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.560 That's weird to think that that that they said there 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.840 was an issue. You couldn't think of anywhere in the 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.200 race where it might have even been a question. You 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.000 didn't even think back to that. That's amazing that, Yeah, And. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.360 The wild thing is if you had grabbed a power 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.760 bar or something like that, it wouldn't have been an issue, right. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.600 Yeah, if I had, if somebody had thrown something at me, 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.480 it probably wouldn't have been an issue. You know. It's 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.600 like a physio but like, yeah, like my physio had 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.720 already gone to the finish line to give me a 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:31.520 bottle at the finish line, so yeah, crazy, wow, Wow, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.360 it's not a mistake, right, like it is and I 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.120 own that. You know, when you're in the heat of 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.760 the race and you're focus on one thing, and if 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.040 you know, if you you know, we take bottles every lap, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.640 but not every lap, you know, you take a bottle, 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.440 you take a drink, you don't, you know, I had. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.080 I got a flat tire as well, so I had 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.280 to come through. They changed my wheel and I kept going. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.680 So there's a lot going on racing and go through 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.760 the feed zone twice a lap. Sometimes you take a bottle, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.720 sometimes you don't, and if you don't, you need to 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.440 go around when you're with a group of people. And 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.120 so I think, you know, in my head, when you're 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.760 the point of the rule, right, which I absolutely respect, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.720 is when you're in a bunch race. Exciting racing, right, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.840 there's a lot happening. You need to make sure that 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.280 when riders are going through the feed zone, they don't 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.680 get it that they only take bottles and they don't 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.120 advance in the race because of that. So when it 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.280 comes to the last lap, you know when there's no 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.360 nobody's drinking anymore, right, you're not taking feeds in the 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:30.800 last lap. It's yeah, I guess you know. It just 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.960 spaced my mind that I needed to grab something because 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.160 we never do in the last lap. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.920 So wow, that's crazy. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.840 And to give people who are listening and an idea 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.400 of what it is to race a mountain bike race. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.200 In the Olympics, they're twisting gravel paths, I've learned, a 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.240 technical rock garden, a challenging climb. This is just under 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:52.720 twenty miles, is that correct? 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:55.439 Oh? Oh gosh. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.079 I don't actually know how what the total amount of 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.520 mile inches, but the course is for four k yeah, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.079 and we did about I think we did eight laps 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.520 of the course or maybe seven seven to eight laps. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:07.640 I'd have to go back to check. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.600 With Yeah, seven seven two point four mile laps, that's 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.480 what I got online. But I'm talking about the expert here, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.200 but I was just trying to imagine what that is like, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.760 just to have to go through and anticipate all of 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:22.560 that terrain. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.240 Yeah, it's I mean it's really intense, right, Like the 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.800 start line is also a mass start, so you race 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.079 for an hour and a half and you start in 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.600 the start line. At the Olympics it's only thirty eight 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.760 riders I think, but at World's Cups, you know, it 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.320 can be over one hundred. So you're starting lined up 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.840 next to each other, eight people to a row. And 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.840 in the Olympics, I was second row, right and you 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.120 the We have a light panel, so it goes from 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.600 from red to green, so similar like Formula one. When 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.120 it turns green, you have a small pedal like this 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.079 big and you have to clip your pedal on perfectly 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.400 and from then you you go. And it's basically I mean, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.600 it's endurance racing, but it's also really intense. We're basically 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.280 going maximal effort for an hour and a half. So 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.600 there's it's really unique to train for because it's not 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.079 a sprint, you know, but it's also not quite endurance pace, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.200 so you have to be the full package of fitness 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.760 being able to do like high power but also sustain 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.720 your effort. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.000 Haley, we're learning so much about a lot of Olympic sports, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.720 from canoeing, the skateboarding to a lot of stuff, and 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.079 this is one as well. But can you explain the 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.160 folks this part, how it's possible you can have a 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.240 busted wheel on your bike but still end up just 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.040 to have to stop and get it repaired, but still 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.040 end up with a silver metal. How did this all 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:44.440 go down? 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.000 Yeah, no, for sure. So I mean, like you said, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:53.000 our courses are pretty intense. There's steep climes, there's gravel corners, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.160 you know, but there's also these big rock gardens. So 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.120 you have to be physically fit, but you also have 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.080 to be very skilled and to set up your equipment 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.000 right for the demands of that course. So we're always changing, 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.800 you know, we're choosing our tires, we're setting up our suspension, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.800 we're choosing the type of bike that will race, dependent 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.680 on you know, how big these features are and what 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.840 the demands of the course are. So I had just 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.040 I had a bad start off the line. I was 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.280 in maybe twelfth position or so, and in this course, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.960 you know, I mean, this is very in their nitty gritty, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.240 But it depends on, you know, when you want to 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.520 be forward, how you pace your race based on how 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.280 soon the track becomes you know, goes from dirt road 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.800 double track to single track where it's only single file 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.559 and you can't pass people. So there's a lot of 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.920 different elements that you're always thinking about. But I had 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.480 just caught up to the chase group, which was about 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.200 four to five riders really battling. First had kind of 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.840 taken off, and second and third weren't far off, and 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.959 I was racing with them for a while, and then 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.719 I just dropped them on one of the climb and 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.080 I was catching the bronze metal position at the time, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.719 and I, you know, I went over the limit a 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.120 little bit. That's also a thing in mountain biking. You 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.080 have to balance, you know, how hard you go up 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.520 a climb, because if you do, you know, too much 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.320 effort and you're a little bit tired. As you go 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.360 into these rock gardens, maybe you won't choose the right 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.520 line and you might make a mistake or you might crash. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.280 I didn't quite do that, but I went a little 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.800 too fast on the downhill and I hit this rock 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.960 super hard with my tire. I broke the wheel and 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.319 I flatted, and I was lucky because I was relatively 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.200 close to the feed zone. I still had to go over, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.280 you know, a couple other rock sections, but I was lucky. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.440 My mechanic saw me a switch back ahead and he 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.199 could tell the way I was riding. He's like, oh, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.600 my gosh, I think she has a flat tire. And 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.840 I was as I was going around one of the 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.319 drops that I obviously couldn't ride with my flat tire. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.240 The two riders, Jenny Ridsbed's who ended up up getting bronze, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.000 and then my teammate from Specialized in from Austria. They 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.320 both went by and Jenny actually told my feeds and 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.000 my mechanic that I had a flat tire, so he 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.840 was ready for me, and so when I came in, 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.520 maybe I was in like sixth position or seventh position. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.920 By then he did the fastest wheel chain ever, like 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.360 maybe record. I think they're just the energy and the 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.440 excitement and everything. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.559 You know what, Haley, I'm curious how fast can I 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:07.320 change a tire? 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.120 I mean they're changing the full wheel right, so they 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.439 remove the rear wheel, they shift it into the right gear, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.439 They remove the rear wheel, they pop a new wheel 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.280 and with the tire after right my pressure that I need, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.439 and then I go and they and they try to 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.480 get into the right gear too, because if it's in 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.520 too big of a gear and I can't pedal right 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.440 right right away, it needs to be the right gear 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.439 so I can actually pedal out the right cadence and 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.960 the right power right when I take off. But he 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.880 did it, I think in less than twenty seconds, which is. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.880 In twenty seconds. That is crazy. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.160 So what's going through your mind now? Are you thinking 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.560 my Olympic metal hopes are shattered? Are you thinking this 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.760 is doable? I can go Like what's going through your 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.720 head when you have a flat tire and a broken wheel? 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.480 Yeah? 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.160 All of that went through my head when I first 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.679 broke my you know, when I hit my wheel on 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.320 the rock and I was like, oh, that didn't sound good. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.200 You know, there's a chance that that's a flat, you know, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.080 And then I could feel it going flat. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.040 When I was right, I was like, how could you lose? 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.760 Like I finally moved in the metal positions, right, I'm 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.280 finally battling for the metals, and I was like, how 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.280 could you lose this opportunity, you know, And I'd already 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.480 had a bad start, so I was, you know what 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.520 what you know, this is the second time, and now 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.200 you're like, how do you mess it up? You know? 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.560 But you really have to switch your mentality from those 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.240 thoughts and clear that's away as quickly as possible and 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.120 just focus on the moment. And I will say, like 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.720 after he fixed my flat, it was like I had 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.760 this new energy in me, Like I went to a 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.880 place that I don't think I've ever been before. I 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.520 was just so I knew I was physically fit, and 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.040 it was like I had nothing to lose, right, Like 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.520 now I had I have nothing, or maybe I can 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.080 get a medal. So I just I had no pacing 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.760 to worry about. I had know I could take every 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.000 risk I wanted, right. I just needed to go as 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.680 hard as I could to catch you. And it was 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.360 like my like I really I felt no pain. It 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.720 was crazy, like I could just go so deep and 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.240 I could push so hard because I wanted it so bad, 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.720 and it was like all the adrenaline in my body, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.400 you know, was helping me race at my fastest. So 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.080 it was crazy how quickly I caught back up into 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.280 the metal positions, and then one of the riders crashed. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:23.200 Another rider also flatted, So yeah, it became like full 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:24.880 sprint all the way to the finish, you know, and 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.760 like now you're hearing there's so much excitement. You're you 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.200 also like not just all this, but the mechanicals, the equipment. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.800 You're fueling every lap. You have to get your fueling 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.160 right for how much you need to fuel for the 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.840 duration of an hour and a half. And there's a 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.400 lot going on in these races, right, It's not just like, oh, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.080 I went through the feed zone like sorry, guys. It's like, no, really, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.320 I was racing for a silver medal I and I'm 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.280 in the moment. Everything's a blurb, right, You're just getting 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.520 there to the finish line as fast as you can, 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.280 and so yeah. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.560 Mistakes happen. There's a lot going on and mountain bike racing. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.880 It's so cool they hear this because this is part 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.400 of what Robot and I've enjoyed in watching, because when 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.000 you get a commentator on who can explain things to 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.640 you because they've done it, and they're explaining technical things 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.640 that maybe we didn't notice. And here I thought you 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.560 were riding a bike. I thought you were just peddling 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.000 and making some lefts and rights. It's so cool to 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.120 hear you explain it the way you have at a 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.080 bad start, went too fast down a hill and busted 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.920 at tire and food zone. If you put together a 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.480 good race, you might win. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.520 Right when you say you fuel, Hayley, I'm always curious 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.920 because we've were nowhere near being Olympians, but we have 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.080 run a few marathons and fueling's always like the issue. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.240 I never know we're training for one, right now, what do. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:41.840 You especially for a marathon? 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:42.240 Yeah? 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.200 But what do you eat or drink while you're biking 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.000 to have your optimum performance? 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:48.080 Yeah? 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.000 So, I mean carbohydrates are key and obviously this goes 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.280 before the race start, right you're doing this for weeks, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.720 leading in every day for years. Maybe you know before, during, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.680 and after, but the key in a race in long 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.920 train or you know, any training from like two to 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.880 four hours. What you guys are doing a marathon that's 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.200 long fueling is like in my mind, when it comes 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.159 to endurance racing, that's win or lose, Like it's a 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.320 game of fueling. It's not a game of fitness. It's 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.199 a game of fueling. I you know, when I'm doing 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.919 training rides, I'm shooting from anywhere from ninety to one 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.640 hundred and twenty rams of carbohydrates. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:21.960 That's carbohydrates. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.440 That's not calories, right, that's looking at your your bar 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.640 and looking just at carbs and being like, I need 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.320 to have ninety to one hundred and twenty grams every hour. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:32.480 That's a lot. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.679 Yeah, you do you ever? 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.439 But like here's me, I'm asking for my own personal 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.560 I'm just so curious. Do you ever get ill by 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.159 consuming all that? Do you ever feel like do you 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.040 are these like the little power gummy thingies or the 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:45.640 the gels? 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:46.960 Like what is it you're putting in? 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.639 Yeah? I mean that's such a good question because this 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.720 takes years to figure out, especially for a marathon race, right, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.399