Duo Athlete

How useful is AI for endurance training when you still have to supply the experience, context, and common sense?

In Episode 5, we share how we use AI to plan training, calculate DIY race fuel, analyze data, troubleshoot equipment, learn new software, and occasionally stop ourselves from making bad workout decisions. Shayna explains how she combines training history, race details, weather, spreadsheets, and her own experience...

How do two athletes train together when they have different strengths, different speeds, and different ideas about the perfect workout?

In Episode 4, we share the real bike, run, and strength plan we're using to prepare for Leadville, Wilderness 101, and the Marji Gesick duathlon. We talk about fitting six workouts into three days, protecting rest and sleep, reducing endurance volume while adapting to strength training, and ...

In this episode of the Duo Athlete Podcast, we talk about the team side of endurance sports — from riding with teammates at Unbound, to leading a local race team, to organizing Dragon’s Back XC, to the very real stress of being someone’s crew on race day.

We get into what it feels like to build community through racing, why SAG stops are more complicated than they look, how couples make race decisions together, and...

In this episode, we recap Frank’s wild day at Unbound Gravel — a race that started strong and quickly turned into mud, mechanical chaos, roadside bike repairs, and eventually a tough DNF.

Frank walks through what happened when his drivetrain stopped cooperating, how he tried to turn the bike into a single speed, and the very unhinged moment of trying to straighten a bent chainring with a rock on the side of the road. Mea...

We’re Shayna and Frank — partners and amateur endurance athletes  . . . training for mountain bike races, ultra runs, gravel events, and some questionable ideas that sounded fun at the time.

In episode one, we talk about training for Marji Gesick 100 "Worst of Both Worlds," Shayna’s return to running and MTB skills journey, Frank’s Leadville 100 experience, and how cycling and running fit togethe...