Gus Morton, filmmaker and former pro cyclist

With Pace · Jun 16, 2022 · 1h 48m

Gus Morton quit professional cycling at the age of 21 to pursue a career as a filmmaker. He was briefly pulled back into professional racing but left the sport for good in 2017, when he merged his two areas of expertise by creating the production company Thereabouts, which put an alternative lens on cycling that didn't revolve around competition or traditional, straightforward narratives of accomplishment. Instead, the projects focus on "conveying the feeling rather than recounting the experience" of cycling adventures.

In January of 2021, Gus joined endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch and…