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 193 - Freeride, Firefighting and Fear with Steve Vanderhoek

Episode 193 - Freeride, Firefighting and Fear with Steve Vanderhoek

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Episode 192 - Vodcast?! - Shockweek Roundtable Discussion

Episode 192 - Vodcast?! - Shockweek Roundtable Discussion

This week I am joined by Matt Beer and Dario DiGuilio to work out which is the greatest air shock of them all. Matt and Dario spent a great deal of time testing these shocks in Whistler to find out th...

25 Aug 20231h 23min

Episode 191 - Getting to Know Alicia Leggett

Episode 191 - Getting to Know Alicia Leggett

Alicia has been with Pinkbike for several years and, at Crankworx Whistler, we had the opportunity to sit down and get to know her a little better in a candid and informal conversation. Some of the el...

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Episode 190 - Racing, Riding and Redbull TV with Eliot Jackson

Episode 190 - Racing, Riding and Redbull TV with Eliot Jackson

Eliot Jackson is a man that wears many hats in the bike industry. Whether it's racing, running the grow foundation or commentating on downhill - he certainly keeps himself busy. We caught up with him ...

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Episode 189 - What the Heck's an EDR With Dan Wolfe

Episode 189 - What the Heck's an EDR With Dan Wolfe

It seems like only yesterday we were duct-taping bananas to our frame, the EWS wasn't a UCI event and Martin Maes and Richie Rude were hot new talents on the scene. One man who's been there for most o...

4 Aug 20231h 7min

Episode 188 - The Heaviest Freeride Moments in Nothing's For Free (with Tippie and Westerlund)

Episode 188 - The Heaviest Freeride Moments in Nothing's For Free (with Tippie and Westerlund)

A partnership between Freeride Entertainment, Outside Studios, and Pinkbike, Nothing's For Free is a full length film that takes a deep dive into the evolution of freeride mountain biking—and the enor...

1 Aug 20231h 15min

Episode 187 - Getting to Know Taj Mihelich

Episode 187 - Getting to Know Taj Mihelich

In our Getting to Know series we're taking time to sit down with Pinkbike contributors and staff and getting to know them better. If you're familiar with our website, you've probably spent a great dea...

21 Jul 20231h 1min

Episode 186 - Getting to Know Mike Kazimer

Episode 186 - Getting to Know Mike Kazimer

You may have seen our "Getting to Know" series of interviews, where we talk with the great and good of racing and mountain biking to understand to them better or maybe just familiarise ourselves with ...

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