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Sub 7 hour & 30th Place Leadville 100 MTB Race Analysis with Coach Elliott

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Elliott says cold-start overhydration caused mid-race problems and forced a hydration reset on Columbine.

1. FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast focuses on Frank Overton and Coach Elliott Barring’s Leadville 100 MTB analysis. 2. Frank Overton hosts the show, and Elliott Barring is the FasCat coach whose 6:52:15 race file matters because he finished 30th overall. 3. The episode asks what it takes to go under seven hours at Leadville while keeping a full-time coaching job. 4. Frank opens with Elliott’s 100-mile, 11,000-foot effort and the sub-nine-hour buckle context at altitude. 5. He breaks down the race file with 239 watts X-power, 517 OTS, and 3.7 watts per kilogram. 6. Frank also points to Elliott’s altitude-adjusted FTP of 325 watts at 10,000 feet versus 350 watts in Boulder. 7. Elliott says he built his entire season around Leadville after missing the race the previous year because he got sick. 8. He says moving to Colorado in the fall added roughly 5,000 feet of acclimation and changed how he prepared. 9. His winter prep included ski touring and ski mountaineering rather than constant riding. 10. He says spring and summer shifted toward 16 hours, then about 18 hours per week, with more Leadville-specific work. 11. Frank and Elliott discuss four key race segments: St. Kevin’s, Sugarloaf outbound, Columbine, and the Powerline climb. 12. Elliott’s early peak came on St. Kevin’s at mile six with 304 watts for 23 minutes and a 4.7 watts-per-kilogram effort. 13. The file shows 280 watts on Sugarloaf outbound, then 261 watts on Columbine for 67 minutes. 14. Powerline came late in the day at 230 watts for 33 minutes, which Frank uses as a durability marker. 15. Elliott says cold low-40s temperatures made hydration management tricky because fluid-based fueling was easy to overdo. 16. He describes overhydrating for the first two to two and a half hours, then deliberately reducing hydration on Columbine. 17. Elliott also says a sinus infection three weeks before the race forced a modified taper and extra easy riding. 18. The conversation sounds like a coach-to-coach debrief, with Frank asking for numbers and Elliott answering in a calm, reflective way. 19. Listeners who like Leadville pacing, altitude training, and endurance coaching will get the most from it. 20. Listeners wanting entertainment over training detail will probably skip it.

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A useful Leadville race file, with one early fueling mistake turned into a coaching lesson.

This is a hard, practical race file built around Elliott Barring's 6:52:15 Leadville 100, with the kind of details that matter at 100 miles and 11,000 feet: altitude, a cold start, and a 30th-overall finish well under the nine-hour buckle cutoff.

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You want a clean read on what held up, and what cracked, at Leadville.

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