<p><strong>How Laura has cultivated her resilience and ‘positive stubbornness’ </strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>You just need to chase your dreams and desires. You figure out the rest on the way.</strong> You may fail, but if you never try you never know.</li><li><strong>When Laura fails she just goes on to the next thing. </strong>Laura remembers breaking her shoulder in 2021, and even on the way to the hospital she was planning her next steps in cycling.</li><li><strong>Laura does get nervous before races, but she doesn’t let this stop her.</strong> She feels the same about doing talks on stage, it makes her feel physically sick beforehand.</li><li><strong>Laura can be assertive when she wants something. </strong>Ed believes this makes her a good leader as it inspires other people and keeps momentum going. She just gets things done. </li><li><strong>Stay true to yourself. </strong>You need to do things for yourself and not for other people. That’s the only way you can make sure you love what you do.</li></ul><p><strong>Ed and Laura’s shared cycling experience</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Ed talks about how he knows Laura and her husband, Jason Kenny. </strong>They met whilst cycling for Britain, but didn’t have too much interaction due to the means and women's training teams being separate. </li><li><strong>Ed and Laura both now have experience from the “other side” of the coach-athlete relationship, which has given them perspective on the matter.</strong></li><li><strong>Laura talks about how she has looked up to Ed since Beijing.</strong> She related to him, and he inspired her to one day also become a professional cyclist. </li><li><strong>Without a team, cycling can be a lonely sport. Ed would take a bullet for anyone he cycled with.</strong> Laura thinks they wouldn’t have won the 2012 Olympics if it hadn't been for the connection they made as a team. These bonds carry you through the tough times.</li></ul><p><strong>Laura and Jason - Power Couple</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Laura has a family, a dog, a husband, and also manages to still be a professional athlete.</strong> Ed finds this incredible, and asks her how she does it.</li><li><strong>Laura thinks it may be because she is a bit mental. </strong>She thinks it’s quite crazy that she decided to have a baby and go back to being an athlete after. But she can’t help it. If she really wants something, she rarely gives up until she has it.</li><li><strong>She gets a lot of help. </strong>Her and Jason’s parents help a lot when things get too hard.</li><li>Laura and Jason are opposites. Jason ums and ers about things, whereas Laura gets things done. Jason doesn’t like talking to people whereas Laura loves it. Because of this, <em>they play to each other's strengths.</em></li><li><strong>Laura considers her child Albert to be her greatest achievement. </strong>He has come out as an amazing kid, even though Laura feels her and Jason don’t put that much effort into parenthood. </li></ul><p><strong>Laura’s Future Plans</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Laura is preparing for the Paris Olympics. </strong>Her coaches think she is in the best form she has ever been.</li><li><strong>Laura doesn’t think she could be a coach in the future. </strong>She is too harsh, and just tells people to get on with it when they are in pain. Phil thinks that’s just a certain type of coaching style that is actually lacking a bit more in modern coaching. </li></ul><p><strong>References:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/laurakenny31?lang=en"><strong>Laura Kenny Twitter</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurakenny31/?hl=en'"><strong>Laura Kenny Instagram</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjeLd_qFrSnx8C50Ftylrw"><strong>Pro Noctis Youtube Channel</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/pursuitline/"><strong>Pursuit Line Instagram</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://pursuitline.co.uk/"><strong>Pursuit Line Website</strong></a></li><li><strong>Pursuit Line Email: </strong>[email protected]</li></ul><p><strong>All music by </strong><a href="https://pixabay.com/users/alexgrohl-25289918/"><strong>AlexGrohl</strong></a><strong> from </strong><a href="https://pixabay.com/music/"><strong>Pixabay</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Podcast produced by </strong><a href="https://liamwilkinson.com/"><strong>Liam Wilkinson</strong></a></p>