Catharine Pendrel

The decorated XC racer is making her final bid for the Olympics, just four months after becoming a mother.

When her racing season was postponed due to COVID-19, two-time world champion Catharine Pendrel set to work building trails for kids in her hometown of Kamloops, British Columbia.

How are pro cyclists adapting their daily lives during the coronavirus shutdown? We take a deep dive into our Day in the life series and then hear from Olympian Catharine Pendrel.

Even a two-time world champion like Catharine Pendrel has to dig deep to find the motivation to bounce back from a major injury.

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The national XC champ discusses her silver-medal ride in Switzerland, the rest of her 2015 season, and her road to Rio 2016

Raphael Gagne and Catharine Pendrel win a hot series finale in Colorado Springs to claim the overall U.S. Cup mountain bike series titles

Complete control is the name of the game on the reigning world champion's full-suspension race day rig

Todd Wells and Catharine Pendrel are Velo's 2014 North American Mountain Bikers of the Year

Newly-crowned Canadian national cyclocross champion thrills home crowd in Winnipeg with a narrow victory over Durrin

Mike Garrigan and Catharine Pendrel both got busy early and stayed gone to win the Canadian CX crowns

Meredith Miller won CrossVegas on Wednesday night over Katie Compton and Katerina Nash with a patient ride and big sprint

It was the second world title for the Canadian; American Lea Davison finished third, her best-ever performance at the world championships

Catharine Pendrel (Luna) won, ahead of Tanja Zakelj (Unior Tools) and Annika Langvad (Specialized)

Anton Cooper and Catharine Pendrel claim gold medals in the cross-country mountain bike race in Glasgow

Canadians return to Traverse City for victories in season-closing mountain bike event

Young Luna rider says she's honored to be closing her first year with Luna and is learning from her three world-class teammates

After disappointment in her late-season performance, Catharine Pendrel has a threefold plan to stay sharp late in the season next year

After disappointment in her late-season performance, Catharine Pendrel has a threefold plan to stay sharp late in the season next year

Absalon says a medal would be 'just a bonus,' Bresset looks to Pendrel as 'the big favorite'

Luna teammates Pendrel, Gould and Nash are the three fastest women in the world right now: London will be the big test

Four names will be selected from the 13-person list of nominees to represent Canada in London

The fat-tire criterium before the Whiskey Off-Road 50-miler put the hurt on most of the professionals in the race

Catharine Pendrel, Georgia Gould and Katerina Nash set to shoot-up the World Cup in 2011

British Columbia's Catharine Pendrel and Max Plaxton win Pro XCT #2 handily

On any given day at an elite World Cup cross-country event in 2010, a woman from Canada or the U.S. had a legit shot at the podium.

When it comes to elite XC racing, Willow and Wells get nod for best North Americans; Pendrel for international rider.

SLIDESHOW: Poland's Maja Wloszczowska won the women's world cross-country championships Saturday, riding away from Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel and Irena Kalentieva on a foggy, cool morning at Mount St. Anne, Quebec.

VIDEO: Canada's Catherine Pendrel wins Windham World Cup and the overall 2010 World Cup overall. Marie-Helene Premont finishes second with her eye on hometown victory at next week's Worlds at Mont Saint Anne.

VIDEO: Canada's Catharine Pendrel leads the overall World Cup points battle, but Eva Lechner of Italy and American Willow Koerber are right on her wheel. How will Pendrel come out in the battle for the title?

Of the six season titles up for grabs, only one — four-cross — has been mathematically won. Prendrel, Lechner and Koerber all aiming for women's XC overall honors.

Although Catharine Pendrel (Luna Pro Team) lost the victory on the last lap Saturday in Val di Sole, Italy, the Canadian is back in the World Cup overall leader's jersey as the series heads to the final round Aug. 28 in Windham, New York.

Luna's Catharine Pendrel goes into Champéry, Switzerland wearing the World Cup cross-country series leader jersey as well as Canada's national champion jersey.

The United States is currently ranked number one in the world in elite women's mountain biking. Koerber, Gould and McConneloug are in top-10 individually.

Among the 500 racers to start the seven-day MTB stage race on June 27 in Vancouver are Catharine Pendrel, Geoff Kabush, Manny Prado, Melanie McQuaid and Chris Sheppard.

Round 3 of the World Cup cross-country sees Catharine Pendrel and Georgia Gould dominate the women's race in Offenburg Germany while Julien Absalon takes his first win of the season.

Willow Koerber, Georgia Gould, Heather Irmiger, Catharine Pendrel and other North American women all have a legitimate chance of finishing on the podium at World Cup 3 in Germany on Sunday.

The best of the best: Take a look at who went off off-road in 2009.

U23 cross-country national champ Amy Dombroski will race fat tires for Team Luna Chix, but expect to see her on the road and racing 'cross too.

The Pro XCT will feature six UCI-sanctioned events in 2010, kicking off in California on March 13. Races follow in Alabama, Wisconsin and Colorado.

Every style of riding you could ever hope to find can be found in this Canadian mountain biking hot spot.

Kabush on a tear and Koerber ends dry spell in New York. But it's Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Catharine Pendrel who take overall Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour titles.