Alex Howes is the former EF Education–EasyPost rider, 2019 USA national road race champion, and one of the public faces of the EF alternative-calendar project that brought riders like himself, Lachlan Morton, and Mike Woods into Tour Divide, Atlas Mountain Race, and gravel-style events alongside their World Tour duties. Now retired from the road, he is a useful voice on what it actually feels like to transition from a 25-hour-a-week pro programme into a self-directed mix of ultra-endurance, gravel, and amateur racing.
The major positions Howes is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Alex Howes on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 1 episode in total.
“I think you just have to do a ton of Miles like I didn't train for it necessarily the biggest thing is just like knowing your equipment I feel like um knowing your equipment and like understanding pacing and like how to get around out there those two things seem like they were probably more valuable than Fitness almost”
“a lot of things you go do like a five hour ride and you're like yeah the bike's good you know and then you go do three 16 hour rides and you're like this bike is not good like the fit is not what I want uh I have a lot of pain here here and here and my hand doesn't work anymore”
“I'll probably get into the four digits for uh hours this year so it's not quite the same as you know 80 race days in the world tour like it's not it's not that but like I don't know thousand hours is thousand hours”
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