Bravely agreeing to be our guinea pig for a new “Day in the Life of…” Twitter takeover series, pro cyclist Carlee Taylor (Liv-Plantur) took over our Twitter feed for a day to live tweet everything she did on June 2nd.
Carlee is an Australian pro cyclist currently racing for the Dutch-registered squad Liv-Plantur. She’s a hill climb specialist, BFFs with Ella columnist Loren Rowney and an avid and highly entertaining social media user.
We created the Twitter Takeover series as a way to provide you all with unique insights into the daily lives of pro cyclists, and to answers the questions of “what do they eat?”, “How do they train?” and “what do they do all day”.
Recapping Carlee’s day on Twitter, here are some highlights:
Rise and Shine: 7:50 a.m. Carlee starts her day
& it begins! Welcome 2 'a day in the life of' @carleetaylor1 ? Time 2 get up! & yes I'm not exactly a morning person pic.twitter.com/envYldc5hh
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
Today’s training schedule:
– Ride, sprint training and power testing
Mid way through today's 20min effort. Think they videod the 10secs I stayed in the seat haha who's up for some data pic.twitter.com/2gqelsfbSc
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
– The test results. How do you compare?
Ok I’m hiding nothing. Here’s my 20min test & the rest of my ride in numbers. Not far off my best. w/kg remember ? pic.twitter.com/PJpdbssa71
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
Unique insights:
– Starts the day logging metric — before coffee even!
First up: morning metrics. Which means hours sleep, morning heartrate, and morning weight cos it's test day #profile pic.twitter.com/AZnLKNg8Lw
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
– Shampoo with caffeine? Whaaaaa! #caffeinedoping
& now 2 get rid of that helmet hair! Yep, cyclists love caffeine, even in their shampoo! @Plantur39za @GiantAlpecin pic.twitter.com/PqCkSQ7Q0A
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
Pros are just like us:
– They brush their teeth:
It’s almost getting to that time of the day. Hope it’s been somewhat entertaining for u guys #prolife pic.twitter.com/pGUQATYpUR
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
-They enjoy delicious, home-cooked meals:
They said this bowl was mine haha well gotta eat to compete. Tomorrow I'll be flying ? #prolife pic.twitter.com/QvATAsCEnL
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
Dinner consisted of soup, veggies and meat stirfry, and banana pudding.
– They wash their own laundry
Mean while my job wasn't quiet so exciting #laundryroom #fromwhereisit #prolife pic.twitter.com/L8sBFAV4KP
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
– They watch “How I Met Your Mother”
Finishing the day off working my brain. Figuring out who is the mother in 'how I met ur mother' is tougher than uni? pic.twitter.com/R6yiCoqSao
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
Bedtime: 10:56 p.m.
Good night twitter world ? That's it for my #takeover & yea thought I would finish w/ a pic that's more 'me' ??? pic.twitter.com/MiSLWzZWdg
— Ella (@ellacyclingtips) June 2, 2016
Follow @ellacyclingtips and the hashtag #prolife to see Carlee’s full day, and stay tuned for more Twitter takeovers. Up next is Loren Rowney (Orica-AIS) on June 8th.