Ella Conolly: From XC Burnout to 2025 EDR World Cup Champion!

What does it take to become the 2025 Enduro World Cup overall champion... without a factory team and without ever planning to go pro?

In this episode, we sit down with Ella Conolly, the 2025 EDR World Cup overall winner, to hear about her incredible journey. Ella opens up about growing up in Inverness and leaving British Cycling's Olympic program, to discovering enduro (thanks to a knock on the door from Tracy Moseley) and going all in on a new discipline with limited funding, no plan and a passion for adventure. We talk about privateer life, her calculated approach to risk, how she fuels race weekends, finding joy in the process, the power of building your own path, discover wether will Ella plans to race downhill and much more more...

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