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In this episode, I talk to Marko Baloh. Marko is an world class ultra athlete with an impressive palmares spanning over 40 years of cycling. He's a 7time finisher of the Race Across America and a 5 time finisher of Paris Brest Paris. He had several wins in races spanning across 6, 12 and 24 hours as well as those spanning multiple days. Marko visited India for the first time this month and I was fortunate enough to be in his cycling camp at Sol Fitness Resorts near Ranipet. We rode together for a few days and I used this opportunity to sit down and talk to him about his long ultra cycling career and his many learnings from it. It was an amazing conversation with an amazing athlete and an even amazing person. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

0:00:00 Intro

0:08:25 Qualifying for the Olympics and missing out

0:13:50 Thought of Race Across America, RAAM

0:20:30 First RAAM experience

0:31:50 Two man team vs Individual RAAM

0:38:55 Most memorable RAAM

0:41:40 Training for Ultra cyclists

0:45:45 Nutrition for ultra cycling

0:52:40 Shorter time trials vs longer time trials

0:57:20 Managing work, family and racing

1:12:15 What keeps him motivated

1:18:10 Tips for working athletes

1:20:30 Closing

About the Podcast

The working athlete podcast is a podcast with and for working athletes from all walks of life and various sports. The goal is to provide inspiration, training tips, mental hacks, time management and life-style advice through conversations with some of the best in sport, from athletes to coaches. If you think you can benefit from this, please consider subscribing so that you don't miss the weekly episodes in future.

Who is a working athlete? Someone working fulltime/part-time, entrepreneur or anyone who has to work to make ends meet and doesn't let being busy to stop him/her from pursuing an active lifestyle is a working athlete. I consider stay at home moms/dads who pursue a sport, as working athletes because homemaking is a full-time job.

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