Sorry for the slow response, but I really appreciate the feedback.
We do try to bring in a lot of experts including pros and past pros, but our hope is to always keep the conversation focused on people who are doing this for enjoyment and come to the sport at a variety of points in life.
We had a lot of conversations about this and what we’ve found is that what applies to pros, also applies to the rest of us. They may do it at a bigger and harder scale, but the principles are the same. The belief is that all of us can learn from people who have really mastered their training.
I hope you had a chance to listen to Griffin’s episode on how people enter the sport. The goal of that episode was to show the wide variety in why people do this.
I enjoyed this episode - as I do most of your episodes - and was compelled to get an account to be able to make a comment on it. So: long time listener, first time commenter.
Which is to say: it seems to me that most of the interviews were all with people who are or were all elite athletes, which is valid - just not the conversation I had been expecting. With episode’s title, I had been expecting the discussion to be more around people coming to endurance sport later in life, less about changing it up. (Probably my own fault - I likely focused more on the first part of the title and less on the second.)
An elite athlete moving to endurance sports and the reasons why they might do that are likely quite different than the average person who is not an athlete or has less of an athletic background. While some guests did bring up interesting thoughts along those lines - nice job, Adventure Detroit, and TriDoc’s origin story - I feel that there’s an interesting conversation to be had around how and why people come to sport later in life, and how to make it welcoming for them.