Duo Athlete
Hi! We’re Shayna and Frank. We’re a couple of athletes here to talk about training, racing, bikes, running, our relationship, and all the chaos that comes with trying to fit endurance sports into real life.
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Bike. Run. Real Life.
Episodes
6 episodes
Borrowed Belief: When Someone Else Knows You Can Do It
Does belief come first, or does training eventually convince you that you can do the thing?In Episode 6, we talk about signing up for intimidating events on pure emotion, panic training, stacking hard experiences, and borrowing belief f...
How We Actually Use AI for Endurance Training
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 ...
Training Together When You're Not the Same Speed
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, Wi...
Team Dynamics: Racing, Crewing, and Building Community
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 o...
Unbound Unfinished: Mechanical Chaos, Remote Crewing, and a Hard DNF
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 drivetr...
Training for Marji, Leadville & Life as Duo Athletes
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 fo...
