019_Pushing the Limits with Lena Meringdal

About this episode

This episode features Lena Meringdal, a world record holder and longboard innovator, discussing her experiences and insights into board building and nutrition.

This episode’s guest is current world record holder and owner-operator of Melonekacke Longboards, Lena Meringdal. We heard a little bit about Lena when listening to Paul McMahon’s experience at the UK Ultraskate 2024, where Lena set the new record of 425.5km, or 264.4mi, but this was an opportunity to delve a little deeper. And delve we did! I believe there’s a solid 15 minutes of us just talking about potatoes – Lena’s secret weapon! I learned a lot from her experience as she has a great way of explaining her process and reasoning behind her nutrition sources. We also got to talk about what goes into the board building process – how she comes up with new ideas, testing those ideas, trial-and-error, and much more. I would wager that Lena is more of an engineer than just a “board builder”. Her ability to assess problems and come up with unique solutions is quite inspiring. As she hasn’t stopped with just skateboards. Just this past summer, MK released a new LDP specific truck! Lena talks a little bit about what went into that and the reasons why it came about in the first place. She is a great example of what happens when you take matters into your own hands and apply yourself…

People in this episode

Host: Maxwell Frank

Guest: Lena Meringdal

Topics covered

• world record holder
• longboard building
• nutrition
• engineering
• innovation
• skateboarding

Keywords

• longboards
• world record
• nutrition
• engineering
• skateboarding
• innovation
• Lena Meringdal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Melonekacke Longboards, MK

Places: UK

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