The Glass Podium

FORMER PRO CYCLIST KATHRYN BERTINE LAUNCHED A NONPROFIT TO GIVE FEMALE RIDERS A LEG UP IN TH SPORT. WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Axie Navas

THE FIRST alarm goes off at 5 A.M. Anayantzi Guzman Fuerte, 30, leaves her room and heads to the kitchen to prepare breakfast to fuel the day’s ride—a 29-mile climb up Mount Lemmon, outside Tucson, Arizona. One by one, her five housemates follow suit. By 6:30, there’s chicken, quinoa, and kale cooking on the stove. “Looks like the usual,” says 20-year-old Mackenzie Green, a cyclocross racer from Cincinnati, Ohio. As they eat, the athletes compare upcoming training blocks provided by their respective coaches. “Ugh, I have four hours today, with one hour of tempo,” says 34-year-old Meghan Grant, who rides for the Canadian national track team. “You’re screwed,” says Mel Beale, 24, a road racer from Colorado. Once the meal is over, they wheel their bikes up the driveway and head off to bang…

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Outside (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2017

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