From partier to pro athlete: how cyclist Orla Walsh became one of Ireland's top athletes

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Orla Walsh's journey to professional cycling was far from ordinary. She was a self-described party girl who was smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day, but that all changed when she started biking to work. She quickly transformed her life and is now one of Ireland's best athletes, winning three straight national championships in women's sprint. She sits down with Jeremy Powers to discuss her journey to sport (3:13), her competitive spirit (8:46), getting into racing (11:28), her vegan diet (...

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0:00.0	What's up folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes, scientists, experts, and more.
0:08.2	Learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we're on a mission to unlock human performance.
0:18.1	We've got a great guest, track cyclist Orlo Walsh. But before we get to her,
0:23.3	a reminder, you can get 15% off a WOOP membership if you use the code will. That's WI-L. The Woop 4.0
0:31.4	is shipping on demand around the world. That's a big deal for us because we've been in backlog for seven months
0:40.6	since literally the day we launched the whoop four. And we are now coming completely out of
0:46.6	backlog and shipping on demand. So check that out, whoop.com. All right. This episode, Orla Walsh,
0:53.2	Orla is the Irish champion in the women's sprint and is the national record holder in the women's 500-meter time trial.
1:01.4	Her journey to becoming a pro athlete was far from ordinary, though.
1:04.9	She didn't begin cycling until her 20s when she started commuting into work on a secondhand bike given to her by her dad,
1:13.0	she then fell in love with it and quickly transformed herself from a self-described party girl
1:18.7	who was smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day to one of Ireland's best athletes.
1:25.1	Our resident cycling expert, Jeremy Powers, slides into the host chair for this discussion.
1:31.1	Jeremy is a legend in the cycling space in his own right. He is a four-time cyclocross national
1:36.5	champion in the U.S. and was one of our first guests on the WOOP podcast in 2019. Orla and Jeremy
1:43.2	discuss how she discovered cycling and how her competitive juices
1:47.3	started flowing even while just commuting to work, what it's like finding your sport late and
1:53.1	how she's making the most of her career heading into her 30s, putting on muscle while
1:58.0	eating a vegan diet, the challenges women face in the cycling world,
2:03.5	and using Whoop in her day-to-day life and how Whoop helped alert her that she had COVID.
2:10.5	Without further ado, here are Jeremy and Orlo Walsh.
2:16.1	All right, hello everybody. I'm Jeremy Powers, and I'm today joined on the Woot podcast by
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