Ellen Noble’s 2021 race season was brief to say the least. At a U.S. Pro Cup mountain bike race in Arkansas earlier this year, Noble was taken down in a crash just after the start. And with that, Noble’s spine was fractured, and she was back in Boulder, Colorado starting the healing process.
She has big ambitions despite the major setbacks. The privateer has started her own team, Noble Racing, and she’s got her eyes set on a big prize: The Olympics. The seasoned cyclocross racer wants to land herself a spot on the Olympic Mountain Bike squad at the 2024 Paris games.
With those games still several years off, Ellen Noble certainly isn’t resting on her laurels. She has scratched another itch in the mean time by creating a mentorship program that gets more young girls and women on bicycles and into racing.
Ellen Noble joins me in the garage to talk about her injury and recovery, Noble Racing and the mentorship program she has started within that banner, and what it takes to motivate yourself to keep going when your body wants nothing more than to stop.
Check out this episode of In The Garage with Ellen Noble!