Shannon Malseed is the Australian rider who won the national championships in her first year as a pro and was miserable doing it. Her honest reckoning with the gap between professional success and personal fulfilment — and her articulation of what 'I was just blocked' actually means as an athletic state — makes her one of the most useful voices on the show for any rider whose performances stop matching their effort. For amateurs whose worst training weeks coincide with their worst weeks at home, the framing alone is worth the episode.
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Where Malseed lands on the questions people ask most.