Episode 233 - Tara Llanes on Reinventing Herself As a Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian

Episode 233 - Tara Llanes on Reinventing Herself As a Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian

Tara Llanes has been wildly accomplished at the high levels of multiple sports - BMX, MTB, and wheelchair basketball, not to mention wheelchair tennis - and she also has a whole lot more life experience to share. In 2007, in what she thought was her second-to-last race before retiring from her career as a mountain biker, a devastating crash changed things for her. She spent the next several years going through intense processing, a move to Canada, some serious mental low points, a growing interest in tennis, and much more before she found herself on the basketball court to improve her speed as a wheelchair tennis player. Wheelchair basketball stuck. Tara clearly knows how to train hard, and that continues to take her far. She's now preparing for her second Paralympics, this one in Paris, and plans to then step away from high-level competition - retiring the right way this time. Brian and I sat down with Tara in Vancouver, where she lives, to talk about that whole process. While we imagined this episode would end up the same length as most of our podcast episodes, we just kept finding more conversation. Tara is clearly smart, capable, an incredible athlete, and seriously strong as a person, and we were glad for every minute she spent with us.

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Episode 202 - Neko Mulally on His Perfect Conceptual Bike, US Downhill Racing and Signing a Prodigious Talent

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Episode 201 - Wyn Masters on Privateers, Enduro and Staying Authentic

Episode 201 - Wyn Masters on Privateers, Enduro and Staying Authentic

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Episode 200 - Troy Brosnan on Bike Development, Fast Team-mates & the Problem with Consistency

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Troy Brosnan is a downhill athlete with a record like few others. As somebody who's only ridden for two World Cup teams in over a decade in the sport, he's ridden some period-defining bikes against so...

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What's going on with the overall? And who needs what to win it? Remy and Henry dive in.

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Episode 199 - Whose XC Bike is it Anyway?

Episode 199 - Whose XC Bike is it Anyway?

Downhill bikes typically have 200 mm of travel, and enduro bikes around 160, but cross-country bikes could have anything between 65 and 120. Progressive and conservative bikes compete against one anot...

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Episode 198 - Our Pedantic Pet Peeves

Episode 198 - Our Pedantic Pet Peeves

In this week's podcast, Dario, Kaz, and Matt join Henry to go over our worst and silliest complaints, as well as some of the things that never fail to put a smile on our face.

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Episode 197 - When Will Women Ride Red Bull Rampage? (with Vaea Verbeeck)

Episode 197 - When Will Women Ride Red Bull Rampage? (with Vaea Verbeeck)

Red Bull Rampage is the largest, most important freeride mountain bike event in the world. Rampage historically hasn't included a women's field, and Red Bull has been promoting the development of wome...

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