Keegan did it! He won the 2025 UCI XCM World Championships and we dug into his power file with him, looking at each of the climbs and getting his insight into the tactics, bike setup, course and field dynamics and more for every pedal stroke (err… hiking step…).
Insane to look at what he can hold in terms of power up at elevation. If you adjust the numbers for sea level, it’s absolutely crazy what he can do for being a rider of his size.
Hope you enjoy this one with one of our longest running podcast guest hosts (+10 years now!).
If you have any questions for him, let us know and we can get the answers for ya.
Just some quick feedback: Can you please make sure you give distances and such also in metric units? For much of the podcast you simply gave e. g. elevation differences in feet, which means nothing to the vast majority of the world.
If you are having trouble to remember that, perhaps a hack would be to always give the quantities in metric first so that you don’t forget?
While I’m sure there are instances where he didn’t, I feel like this one in particular he was constantly saying both and did a great job of getting metric included. For me it’s almost the opposite, I’d prefer we just use one than reference both every single time, just adds a lot of extra wording.
Sure, but I think it wouldn’t be realistic to insist on him using solely metric units throughout (since this is what the world - US and Nigeria runs on).
Personally I find it super distracting when they give multiple units at once. Just pick one and stick with it. Conversions are super easy if you don’t know one or the other.
I think this clearly shows it’s important to say both, not just pick one, lol. I built it all out beforehand, but dropped the ball a few times during. It’s tough to keep all the numbers straight every time when you’re dealing with so many numbers!
You know it’s good when the only thing people have to complain about is whether the stats are provided in multiple units of measure… TR makes an effort to include metric conversions more often than not, but when the host and guest are accustom to imperial units in the normal course of conversation, it’s going to slip in and it’s too disruptive (IMO) to pause to run the conversion constantly. I’m of the opinion that a podcast should pick one or the other based on their primary target market. And if there isn’t a strong majority of the audience in the US, go metric.
“Surround yourself with people who support you doing your thing” reminds me…
I don’t really use social media much so probably late to the party on this one, but on the “cool down” after Keegan’s win at World’s Sofia was called his fiancée. They’ll probably never see this, but congrats!
