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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
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Joshua Walker, a cyclist from Trussville, AL, had already excelled in his atheltic career before his first year at Montevallo. He rode at the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Denmark. Submitted photos.
While Trussville native Joshua Walker has just started his Freshman year of cycling at Montevallo, he has already raced at the international level.
Walker started competitive cycling in 2019, learning from cyclists during large group rides. In high school, he raced for the Hewitt Trussville Mountain Bike team before advancing to a road racing team in Georgia.
This past May, Walker competed in the Cheaha Challenge Gran Fondo where the top four riders advanced to the world championship race. To his surprise, the Trussville teen crossed the line in fourth, beating out 19-34 year olds in the elite category.
“I had no idea that I was going to qualify,” Walker said. “I was just there to race that race.”
On September 1, Walker flew out to Aalborg, Denmark, for the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships, a 95 mile race with around 439 riders in his age group.
“My main goal was to leave with everything intact,” Walker laughed. “It was physically the hardest thing I’d ever done on a bike. I finished 232nd out of a large field, and I was one of the youngest there.”
At the race, Walker made friends with other cyclists from Norway, Belgium and Slovenia. He remembered feeling proud when he realized there were several retired Tour de France riders and Olympians at the race.
As Walker returns to Montevallo for his first collegiate season, he continues to use his elite-level training plan, consisting of 2-5 days of lifting and several hundred miles of biking per week.
“I average about 40 miles per day throughout the week,” Walker said. “But on the weekend I will ride over 100 miles in one day.”
Aside from striving to become a professional cyclist, Walker has poured time into coaching cyclists 1-1 and at Hewitt Trussville with his business Peak Watt Performance. He is currently working on degrees in marketing and exercise science to expand his business further.
To connect with Walker for training plans and assistance with goals and timing, contact him through @josh_walker_pwp on Instagram.
