Making Up The Numbers | MTB Training with Richie Rude and Todd Schumlick

Todd Schumlick has trained some of the worldโ€™s leading bike sports athletes from Aaron Gwin to Stevie Smith, Sam Blenkinsop to Emmeline Ragot. Richie Rude is the 2 x EWS Champion, 2013 Junior DH World Champion & has worked with Todd for the last 8 years. What started out as a discussion about training for DH vs enduro actually became more about training in general but thereโ€™s so much wisdom in here that it doesnโ€™t really matter.

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