I just always rode way more than I was supposed to. LC: Well so I never followed my training plan before. VN: How did you adapt your training to go from XC to a 100-miler? So, Felt wanted me to race Leadville on the new Edict, since they were planning on launching the Edict at Leadville, so I was like heck I’ll race Leadville, why not? I love riding my bike really far, so I was like if I tell my coach I want to race Leadville, every Saturday, he’s going to say I need to ride for eight hours, that’s perfect, so that’s how that idea was born. At some point, Scott had a talk with me and said you need to move on and find some goals and get your head out of the sand. She was super-supportive of me because she knew what I was going through. LC: No, so I didn’t really want to quit racing altogether, so I was still kind of loosely affiliated with team TwentyTwenty, with Nicola Cramer. VN: Did you expect you were going to win Leadville last year? Real bad times and it had a real good outcome. It was like a year of growth, personal growth, and then I found endurance racing. VN: You said went into 2017 not expecting to really race, tell me more about that. I think I need to do a second season to see if it was a real thing or if I just got lucky. It was kind of like serendipity, I don’t know. Larissa Connors: I did a lot of 100-mile races last year for the first time, and I won all of them. ![]() ![]() VeloNews: Tell me some of your highlights from 2017. Last year, Connors won the Leadville 100, and she’s stoked to go back for more - really, really stoked. So, to make up for that, here is an excerpt from a conversation I had with the ebullient Larissa Connors after she won Canyon’s Belgian Waffle Ride in California on April 15. Perhaps you noticed that there wasn’t an edition of The Dirt last week. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
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