I caught up with Aaron 4 days after he finished becoming the *first person to circumnavigate Texas on a bike! In total he rode 3,014 miles in 58 days and he wrote weekly articles about his journey that you can read on Texas Monthly.
Erik and I met at a Bikes or Death group bikepacking trip right before the world shut down thanks to a coronavirus. Since then he’s been wholed up in his Austin apartment in lockdown. With some extra time stuck indoors he’s been finding ways to stay active and engaged with the cycling community.
Chris Burkard has become a personal source of inspiration for me and it was an honor to have him back on the podcast. He was first on way back at Episode 17 to tell us about his WOW Cyclothon Record that he set in 2019. That episode really fired me up and motivated me to push myself in more ways than just on the bike. Chris’ passion for life is contagious and I highly recommend you go back and listen to ep. 17, although you don’t need to listen in order to enjoy.
In July Talib Abdullahi created and organized a Black History Ride in Austin, TX. Motivated by the BLM movement he wanted to create a positive event that would both be education and fun. Originally, he was thinking it would be him and maybe 20 of his friends, but word quickly got out, and within a week he was leading his Black History Ride with 400ish cyclist in tow.
If you’ve been listening for a while you’ve probably heard me talk about my lack of expectations for the podcast. Not in a self-depricating way, but in the way that you do something that you’re passionate about for a community you love with no expectations. I didn’t tell anyone about the podcast or promote it outside of an obscure post on a small instagram account, but that didn’t stop me from quickly realizing not only the popularity of Bikepacking, but the desire for these types of interviews and stories.
This weeks episode I chat with Dave Nice who is known on the interwebs as @fixiedave. His username gives away the fact that he rides fixie, but it says nothing about his completion of the Tour Divide in 2012 after attempting it 5 times before.
Two things that intimidate me are the Colorado Trail and YoYo’ing the CT, but nothing kept Katie and Andrew Strempke from being the first people to Yo-Yo it.
At this point Sophiane Sehili needs no introduction. Three days ago Sophiane finished the French Divide in 1st place and with a New Course Record to boot.
Cinthia Pedraza calls Austin, Texas home. Some recent experiences in her hometown led her to write an article titled “Bike Racing, White Privilege, and the Coronavirus” that was published on The Radavist.
In this week’s episode I do my first “colab” podcast with Lewis Ciddor who not only won Tour Divide in 2017, but is also the host of the Overland Archive Podcast.
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