King of the Ride

Episode 149: Race Around Rwanda Winning Recap!

Hello and welcome back to King of the Ride!

Today is a bit of cross-pollination. I am drawing from a recent Gravel Kings podcast, where Laura, Stu, and I sit down to dissect Race Around Rwanda in a two part recap. But here we've distilled it down into one episode.

So, please do yourself a favor and hit SUBSCRIBE on Gravel Kings. We're three hosts with radically different cycling backgrounds talking about what matters to you in the cycling world.

I'm excited to have created a vlog from my time in Rwanda. Please check that out here:

https://youtu.be/mKWJMqNM9lE

If you are a watch-a-podcast kind of person, then check out this exact show here:

https://youtu.be/2ax09zLeJMs

Episode 148: Dirk Friel -- Founder of TrainingPeaks

One of my favorite things to do in this podcast is to talk with the How I Built This style, namely to chat with the movers, shakers, and entrepreneurs to hear how they started their business. Amid being a professional athlete and then coach, Dirk started TrainingPeaks, which at this point has to be among the most popular pieces of training software on the planet. Every single Tour de France team, World Tour team, pro rider and aspiring professional uses TrainingPeaks. 

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Episode 147: Cameron Wurf -- Professional Athlete (three times over)

You likely know Cam Wurf from his exploits on a bike. He set record after record in the Ironman World Championships on the bike leg, then stepped back into the UCI World Tour after a six-year hiatus and has been working his way into headlines since. He's an Ironman winning athlete, generally found somewhere on the podium when the race is a wrap, but he's also known for wild exploits like running a half marathon for training the evening after riding Paris-Roubaix.  Let's not forget that he's an Olympic and world champion rower from his first foray into athletics, so he's basically been an endurance athlete his entire life. This conversation is not one to be missed, thanks for tuning in! Follow Cam at @cjwurf Get that $48 value from AG1 by visiting drinkAG1.com/tedking And follow the Kristian Blummenfelt excitement here and here!

Episode 146: Chase Wark -- Professional Cyclist

They don't get more genuine than Chase Wark. Maybe that's those northern midwest roots, now living in the hallowed Driftless region of Minnesota (...home to the US national gravel championships, as we'll discuss today). No stranger to big results, to gravel beef controversy, to aero gains, and diving deep in search of the spirit of gravel, Chase brings a lot to the table as you'll learn today.

Follow Chase's journey at @chasethebiker

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Episode 145: Christian Meier -- Cyclist, Ultrarunner, Entrepreneur

Finding a single word or short phrase that encompasses all that Christian does is easier said than done. Furthermore, I'm not sure in which order to put those three words, Cyclist, Ultrarunner, Entrepreneur, because over his life he juggles all three. Christian is a long time professional cyclist turned race winning ultra trail runner. He's also started a number of successful businesses in beautiful Girona, Spain. He's the founder/owner of 

• La Fabrica Girona
• Espresso Mafia
• Chance Run Apparel
• Overland Run Shop 

On today's episode we'll talk about each of these items, plus translating a pro road career to professional running, compare gravel and trail running, talk about highs and lows of starting businesses, the grind of an entrepreneur, and how to deal with injury, among other topics.

You can follow Christian at @christianmeier

Please enjoy the show!

 

 

Episode 144: Bond Almand -- A 13,595 Mile, Record Setting Ride

Bond Almand just rode a record setting pace from the northern tip of Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina. Over 75 absolutely wild days, Bond rode into ferocious headwinds, among throngs of cities, highways, oil fields, high mountains, great plains and desert, and so much more to make it to Ushuaia, Argentina. 

More than 13,500+ miles later, he made it.

Keep his website nearby: www.bondalmand.com as you'll want to cross reference it often.

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Episode 143: Melisa Rollins -- Professional Cyclist

Melisa Rollins is our esteemed guest today. She’s been in the game for a handful of years, but she’s quickly turning heads, especially here in 2024. Earning the most acclaim was a smashing victory at Leadville, the hallowed 100 mile mountain bike race scraping across some of Colorado’s highest peaks. She just won Iceman Cometh. She was second in the life time Grand Prix. She’s won Chequamegon, she’s podiumed the overall at Redlands. She has seven Leadvilles to her name. And she's seemingly just getting warmed up!

Follow Melisa at @melisa_rollins

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Episode 142: Luke Lamperti -- Professional Cyclist

Luke immediately proved his worth stepping into the World Tour, coming third in his first ever race with Soudol Quick-Step having helped deliver his teammate to the victory. He finished 7th at Kuurne Brussels Kuurne, won a stage of Czech Tour, and has a boatload of results coming up through the ranks prior to this year, including back to back to back US criterium national titles. As if it doesn't get better, he's just an awesome guy.

Tune in with this fun conversation that wraps up his neo pro year and see where Luke takes it from here.

Follow Luke at @lukelamperti

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Episode 141: UCI Gravel Worlds with the Kings -- Laura and Ted Talk Belgian Gravel

In particular, "Brussels Gravel" is on topic today. There has been lots of chatter about the course itself. The less than enthusiastically dubbed bike path world championships. In this conversation, Laura and Ted break down their perspectives on the course itself and what Belgium has to offer; the astounding level of World Tour competition (looking at you Lotto Kopecky and Mathieu van der Poel!); the type of support from USACycling, and how the race shook out... among other things.

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Episode 140: Jessie Diggins -- Olympic and World Champion

Jessie Diggins' name is synonymous with success for US cross country skiing. She broke the drought for all of American skiers as she and Kikkan Randall (episode 36) won the first gold medal for the United States in 2018.

Jessie is a four time Olympic medalist, a six time world champion medalist, an author, and activist working with The Emily Project and Protect Our Winters (POW) as a winter athlete alliance. Among other accolades. 

She is a great follow on Instagram where you can find her at @jessiediggins

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