Rachel Atherton

🤯40th World Cup win baby! What the actual heck!!!! Feels so surreal, it just won’t sink in, it feels like a dream! ⭐️❤️⭐️❤️⭐️❤️ Such a Massive team effort to make this race, let alone to win! Thanks to everyone for helping me @athertonracing @ mum @alanmilway @athertonbikes @conti_mtb @redbull #mumsrule #40 #ucimtbworldcup @nathhughesphoto photos

Raw clips from 2day , best day ever ❤️ New bike goes so well 😮‍💨🔥👌 @athertonbikes @conti_mtb Probably one of the best days I’ve had on my bike in years!! So so so much fun going as fast as we could & the sun ☀️ was unreal @dyfibikepark , thanks boys!! @brendog1 @damien_tutton @lewis_ranger 🔥

Special times ✊ She loves anything with wheels so much! 🥰 🙏🏽 it’s so awesome sharing our hobbies with arna, what a dream ❤️🌙🐣 @gopro @goprouk

Trying to settle in to normal life!! The next world cup is this week & I won’t be racing… I never planned to do a full season & im trying to stick to that plan!! I knew the comedown from racing 2 world cups would be pretty deep, that adrenaline fuelled, fun filled lifestyle is hard to leave behind 💣 @athertonracing are too fun! but the exhaustion I’ve felt has been another level! Similar to newborn baby days!! I keep trying to start training again but get too exhausted to train day after day, “Millway sent my training plan thru and it’s like for a full time athlete, cos that’s what I asked for” But I don’t know if I am!! How can I be a full time mum, AND a full time athlete?!! I love both so much, & I feel guilty for doing either! I want time to train, then when it comes to leaving arna for a few hours I don’t want to leave her at all! Arna has gone mad for the boob again, constantly wanting milk, and she’s become really clingy to me, im sure she’s still in shock that I disappeared every day to “work” at the races, she still talks about the race every day “mummy big jumps , clap clap” even tho I was with her every morning & immediately after finishing riding every day, it must of still been a shock for her & she’s a bit clingy now! It’s a real head trip, trying to figure this out! I’m still so in shock that I actually won Lenzerheide & 3rd at Leogang! I always want to be real on here and showing this side of it that we all go thru is important to me as I would want arna to grow up seeing things online that are honest! @uci_mtbworldseries @redbullbike

Wow!!! @andreas.kolb66 Winning elite mens final was just INSANE!!! A long time coming!! I finished on the box in 3rd… ⭐️❤️⭐️🔥 couldn’t of dreamed of a better day!!! To see Andi win on the @athertonbikes …. In front of his home crowd in Austria 🇦🇹 Wow!! Just SO SO SICK!! 🥳🥳💣💣 We all went pretty wild 😂😂🔥🔥 I was so so buzzing to put down a solid run & not crash, after a few near misses on the jumps during my run 😂😮‍💨😬 Leogang felt so much harder than LENZERHEIDE & im so stoked 3rd ❤️❤️ To see @valihoell win at home too was just amazing, she put down a perfect heater & those home wins mean more than anything else, my wins at fort William are so special, so I’m buzzing for her 🔥 it was awesome to witness! 🔥🔥🔥 Cheers @athertonracing you beauties ❤️ @nathhughesphoto 📷

Take a look at Rachel Atherton’s own named downhill race bike that took her to victory as she returned to racing in Lenzerheide!🏆 Rachel gets back between the tape today in Leogang, could we see this bike take another top step? Let us know👇 Hit the link in bio to check out the full bike🔗

World Cup #2 😍 Leogang 🇦🇹 My new painted helmet is Hearts ❤️& Stars ⭐️ for arna baby becuase she loves them shapes & that racing flag within them becuase I love racing & I wanted to honour what that love for this sport has given me ❤️ I had no idea when We designed it that I would actually race again! @imagedesigncustom @bellhelmets_bike 👍 @oakleybike brought me round a present them gold goggles 😮‍💨😮‍💨🤩 After a long talk with the fam Sunday morning, we decided We may as well come to leogang to race, we’re enjoying being on the road at the races & mum & arna have gotten in the groove, we hire ebike & trailer for mum so she can get about with arna so easy ❤️❤️ I’m so grateful to @redbulluk for getting our physio out here @wp.sportsinjury it really is savage on the body this sport, and my main concern is back to back races without enough training! Im feeling a bit strange because I don’t want any pressure, last weekend I felt so free without any pressure to win, I’ve spent my whole career feeling like I need to win, & it felt amazing without that, & I don’t want that pressure to return, because I’m just here for a good time & to try my best & to have good feelings doing my job again 👍👍

🏆 Rachel Atherton’s triumphant return! Rachel took home first place at the 2023 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup in Lenzerheide after overcoming an injury in 2019 and embracing motherhood in 2021. Her determination and skill shone brightly as she claimed the top spot in the pack. Congratulations to @rachybox on the first win of the season🌟🚵‍♀️💪 #RachelAtherton @uci_mtbworldseries #UCIDownhillMTBWorldCup #Lenzerheide #GoPro #GoProBike

This day Still feels like a dream! ⭐️❤️🥇 feeding arna in that champagne haze felt like magic ⭐️ I don’t even know how it happened 🥇 Im beyond grateful to @dan_atherton for making us start @dyfibikepark ❤️ Living there & riding there every weekend has done me so much good… when arna was a little baby, it was my lifeline , walking down there with her asleep in the sling, for a coffee & lunch, knowing it would be full of my family & friends & like minded bikers… it really saved me in so many ways from that loneliness you feel as a new mum… And then as I started riding, @dyfibikepark offered me everything I needed, a safe place to be with my baby girl with my mum or olly chilling with her, with no judgment, I remember breastfeeding in the cafe & all these young lads like “ok cool, no big deal” A perfect place to just ride & have so much fun & forget your fears…. & before I knew it I was back lapping the big tracks & sending the gnar, & then more recently I’ve been back taking it seriously as I aimed for this race, banging out full times runs & feeling the race joy come back ❤️❤️⭐️⭐️❤️❤️ I feel so ridiculously grateful for last weekend, thanks everyone ❤️ @svenmartinphoto

Wow, P.2 in Qualifying! I did not expect that at all! 😱 I have been honest on here talking about how I have been struggling this week & how it all feels just so hard! I promise I WAS being honest! I feel a bit stupid to of been talking about how hard it’s been and then go into 2nd place 😂 even tho it’s just quailes & doesn’t mean anything! feeling awful in practice is a real thing, and maybe most of us racers felt shit in practice 😂 it takes a long time to learn the track, get confidant, set your bike up, and it’s a whole different game riding here on this track compared to riding at home where you’re super comfortable and you know the lines inside out! I felt annoyed I couldn’t ride like I do at home I had absolutely no idea where I might finish, so I knew I had to have a good run to qualify… Race runs are always so different & I guess I forgot that a little bit, I forgot that warming up properly, getting in the zone, sinking 2 Redbull’s , going thru the track in your head, the whole routine… All that preparation sets you up much better for a full run, whereas in practice you do a short warm up and then go for it, You’re not as focussed & stopping lots & it’s super hard to imagine being able to do a full run when you’re that fatigued!! Anyway, I’m pretty stoked & even more nervous 😂 Just wanted to give a bit more insight as i feel like a twat for moaning so much on here then I go and get 2nd in qualifying but… Pretty sure I’ll get smoked tomorrow but I don’t mind! We have 2 more races to go tomorrow! New format means semi finals, and then finals, so 2 more race runs & that’s pretty scary for the body to manage! I honestly don’t really mind anymore what happens, I’m just stoked to have had a good run , really happy to have done a full run & ride good, &I’m happy to be here :-) Teammates killing it too @andreas.kolb66 in 1ST @charlie_hatton1 8th 🔥🔥🔥 @athertonracing @conti_mtb ❤️⭐️❤️⭐️❤️

Wow! First 2 days done at LENZERHEIDE World Cup! Yesterday was all about bike, body & kit, & Today was first day of practice & wow, I got my ass kicked by this track! I was so nervous first run, legs all shaky & stiff, but slowly you learn the track & start to try to get faster but I really am struggling to find the confidance I have when I’m riding at home! I had what felt like a big crash 2ND run & that opened my eyes a bit! I hurt my shoulder which is always fked anyway after so many surgeries , & it all just honestly feels a bit ridiculous to be trying to race & then come home & breastfeed arna to sleep cos she’s missing me during the day! Anyway this was my choice to try to race , im just trying to be real 😬😂🙏🏽 It’s 2nd degree fun this racing game 😂 I’m trying to enjoy it & to not care, but it’s hard to even do a full run…. No wonder I used to train so damn hard!!! 😂 The ladies were so impressive & riding so fast, it’s rad to see first hand how fast they’re all riding, amazing! Hope you like my little reel of the last 2 days ❤️👍⭐️ @enduraofficial @conti_mtb @athertonbikes @alanmilway 🎥

First Race of 2023 😍 New @enduraofficial kit ✅ Special new helmet design ✅ Track walk ✅ Bike rebuild ✅ Suspension setup ✅ Warm up ✅ I just can’t believe I’m here really!! Amazing to be back with the team @athertonracing & the most amazing part is getting my bike looked after by everyone 😂 & food cooked 😍 Today was about getting ready for practice tomorrow & switching on my racer head! I’m so lucky my mum is here to look after arna so I can try to focus ❤️ it’s so strange switching mindsets! Thanks for all the love & messages, feeling nervous but remembering: safety first!! 😋 @nathhughesphoto 🙏🏽👌