Liz Donahey’s Traction: a Mountain Biking Podcast Liz Donahey

Life is short. We only have a few rides left. We gotta ride with the one care about us the most or it won’t be fun and healthy for anyone. If we want to stay together on this big ride of life, it’s easier to stay close to those we love enough to communicate but far enough not to crowd or crash into each other we’re good.

In this episode, I get real about losing myself a little and why, all driven by the feeling of passionate, confident, happy, and resilient by not feeling like others want me to win or encouraged by others, compounded by not able to ride my bike and all it means to me in all dimensions of my life. We have to be our own bike sometimes.

In this episode, join me as I interview an amazing Marin County cycling coach and former pro racer Robin Zellner on the great things he loves about coaching women. Robin also shares 40 year journey the cycling world starting off as a young 17 athlete competing in races in Europe and what his experience was like a such a young age.

Just because we really want some thing and we’re very passionate about it doesn’t mean that we are expert enough to accomplish it very well. It takes being honest about what we know, and what we don’t know, what we can do, and what we cannot do, in our current level of capability and knowledge about a topic or an activity. If we don’t, then we’re going to end up, hurting ourselves and others in the process. Let’s dive in and learn how not to crash.

In this episode, I go deep into setting smart 2024 goals, or what I call the big and small finish lines, in all areas of our lives. I’m extremely goal-oriented, but I really don’t like setting New Year’s resolutions because sometimes it feels like you’re setting yourself up for failure, not acting on the thoughts and feelings that you desire to. So instead, why don’t we set some big and some small finish lines that we know we can cross in 2024.

From getting up at 4:30 AM for my hot Pilates class, or jumping on my bike to get those training hours in, to racing to get my kids to school so I can make it all happen, we have to have a sense of urgency or time will go by and leave us without The things we love to do and be with the most in our lives. We’re not promised any specific number of hours days weeks on this plan we better commit and decide on the things we want the most and go after them immediately there’s no time to waste. This is your time on the planet.