Lifetime Grand Prix, Top 10 Machine | Hayley Preen
Hayley Preen is a South African cyclist who almost became a surgeon instead. In this conversation, she traces the whole path: competitive cross-country running and show jumping as a kid, a near-move to study medicine in America, an engineering degree at UCT that somehow coexisted with becoming national road champion, and the decision to walk away from a European road team that nearly broke her, only to find her real home in American gravel racing. This is a story about what it takes to back yourself completely when nobody’s doing it for you yet, and what happens when it finally starts to pay off.