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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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 from partners, teammates, coaches, and the endurance community. Frank looks back at the people who helped him believe he could finish Leadville, while Shayna explains why she needs a 50K and a 100K mountain-bike race to make Marji feel possible—and how one imm...
22 Jul 2026
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 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 to get useful answers. Frank shares how he uses screenshots and ste...
15 Jul 2026
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, 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 preparing to run on tired mountain-bike legs. We also dig into the ...
8 Jul 2026
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 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 why finishing one big event somehow leads straight into searching for the next...
1 Jul 2026
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 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. Meanwhile, Shayna was attempting to crew remotely from home using maps, Garm...
23 Jun 2026
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 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 together when you love both. We also cover Big Frog 65, Snake Creek Gap, Oak Mountain 50K, trainin...
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