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With Pace
Professional mountain biker Payson McElveen sits down with some of the biggest names in sports and adventure to get an inside look at what sets them apart. With no script, the casual conversations are as diverse as the guests, with topics ranging from harrowing tales of survival, to debates on current events, to everyday tips and tricks and everything in between. As Payson travels the world for his two-wheeled day job, listen in as he rubs shoulders with and learns from some of the most…
Episodes
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Grand Prix preview with Geoff Kabush and Kateřina Nash
Payson is joined by Geoff Kabush and Kateřina Nash to talk about all things Life Time Grand Prix. The six-race gravel series kicks off this weekend with the…
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Dave Hagen, Director of Fort Lewis College cycling program
Dave Hagen has been the Director of the Fort Lewis College cycling program for 18 years. In that time, he’s seen it grow from a club sport to one of the most…
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Cole Paton, winner of The Mid South
Payson sits down with this year’s winner of The Mid South, Cole Paton to discuss his victory and unpack the race. Having spent much of his career winning…
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Keegan Swenson, mountain bike racer
Keegan Swenson joins Payson one week after setting a course record at 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo. They talk about his pivot toward endurance racing after…
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The Mid South preview with Ted King
Ted King joins Payson to talk about The Mid South, the unofficial kickoff of the 2022 gravel season. They discuss this year’s course, the weather forecast, and…
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Remi Gauvin, enduro racer
Remi Gauvin is a professional enduro racer from Squamish, BC who has made numerous podiums and top ten Overall Series finishes in the Enduro World Series. In…
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Jesse Melamed, enduro racer
Jesse Melamed is an enduro mountain bike racer who is currently ranked #3 in the world for that discipline. In this conversation, he talks about growing up in…
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Lance Haidet, professional road and cyclocross racer
Lance Haidet is a professional road and cyclocross racer who currently rides for L39ion of LosAngeles. In this interview, he tells Payson about racing mountain…
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Sam Pickman, Director of Product and Engineering at Allied Cycleworks
Sam Pickman worked as an engineer for Specialized for 11 years before joining Allied Cycleworks in 2016. As one of the brand’s first employees, he has been…
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Marley Blonsky, co-founder of All Bodies on Bikes
Marley Blonsky is the co-founder of All Bodies on Bikes, an organization that seeks to make the cycling community more size inclusive. In this conversation…
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Cam Wurf, WorldTour cyclist and Ironman triathlete for Ineos-Grenadiers
Cam Wurf started his athletic career in rowing, where he represented Australia at the 2004 Olympics, and went on to compete in road cycling for WorldTour teams…
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Gretchen Reeves, former professional cyclist and CPA on managing finances as an athlete
Since leaving her career as a professional cross country mountain bike racer, Gretchen Reeves has worked as an accountant for athletes and self-employed people…
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Ashton Lambie, track world record holder and gravel racer
In 2021, Ashton Lambie became the first person in history to ride 4000m in under four minutes. He completed the distance in 3:59.93, surpassing the previous…
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2022 Preview Q&A: listener questions, new sponsors, and events schedule
Payson answers listener questions about his upcoming 2022 season, including new and returning sponsors, his race schedule, and a few personal developments as…
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Molly Cameron, professional cyclocross racer and transgender athlete
For over two decades, Molly Cameron has been advocating for LGBTQ+ rights within cycling. In her career as a racer, she was banned early on from racing in the…
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Jack Aitken, Formula One reserve driver
Jack Aitken has been pursuing a career as a Formula One driver since he was seven years old. He's raced in both Formula Three and Formula Two, and was signed…
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Lizzie Deignan, professional road cyclist
Lizzie Deignan has held just about every title available to road racers. She was the 2015 World Champion, won silver medal at the 2012 Olympics in London, and…
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Kimo Seymour, President of Events and Media at Life Time, on a new era of off-road racing
In his role as President of Events and Media at Life Time, Kimo Seymour has been instrumental in the acquisition and shaping of mass participation off-road…
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Riley Amos, XC mountain bike racer
Riley Amos became the breakout star of cross country racing earlier this year when he became the first American male to win a U23 World Cup . At just 19 and in…
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Jamie Bestwick, 14x X Games BMX champion, on discovering gravel and the dark side of athletic greatness
For over 20 years, Jamie Bestwick reigned as one of BMX's most decorated athletes in the history of the sport. Since competing in his first X Games in 1996…
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Matt Phillips, Senior Tech Editor at Bicycling Magazine
Matt Phillips has ridden more bikes than perhaps anyone else in the world. And over the last 30 years reviewing cycling gear, he's tried just about everything…
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Reed Boggs, freeride mountain biker
Reed Boggs is a freeride mountain biker who placed third at this year’s Red Bull Rampage. The event is known for pushing the boundaries of freeriding and has…
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Joe Cruz, bikepacker and Professor of Philosophy at Williams College
Joe Cruz has been bikepacking since the 80s, when a college trip introduced him to the excitement and challenge of multi-day cycling adventures. Since then…
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Alexey Vermeulen, pro cyclist
Alexey Vermeulen began his career racing on the WorldTour circuit for Jumbo Visma. After falling out of love with the road scene, he decided to transition to…
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Nat Ross, Hall of Fame mountain biker
Nat Ross has many firsts to his name. He was the first rider to race a World Cup on 29 inch wheels, the first winner of the Marathon National Championships…
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Sarah Sturm, professional gravel racer
Sarah Sturm returns to catch up with Payson about how her life and career have changed since her first time on the show in 2020. She talks about learning to…
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Chad Cheeney, co-founder of Durango Devo
Chad Cheeney is the co-founder of Durango Devo, a non-profit mountain bike program for kids in Durango, Colorado. Since the program began in 2006, Chad has…
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Vali Höll, women's downhill World Cup Champion
At just 19 years of age, Vali Höll is no stranger to the World Cup podium. In 2018, she won every Junior World Cup race and went on to win the overall title…
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Annijke Wade, mountain biker, on her recent spinal cord injury
Annijke Wade is a mountain biker who was finishing her third season of racing when a crash on a familiar trail left her permanently paralyzed from the waist…
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Chris Burkard interviews Payson about his Iceland crossing record
Today on the show, photographer and Iceland expert Chris Burkard turns the tables on Payson to interview him about his record-setting self-supported 257 mile…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords final day and trip recap
Payson, Lael, Nichole, Rue, and Chris sit down for one last Iceland recap. After eight days and 680 miles of touring the Westfjords, they talk about the most…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 7
Payson, Chris, Nichole, and Lael talk about day seven of their bikepacking tour of the Westfjords of Iceland. With perfect weather, stunning coastal views and…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 6
Payson, Lael, Rue, Nichole, and Chris discuss their sixth day of riding, which featured--as usual--a roller-coaster of weather and lots of eating. Evan the…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 5
Payson, Lael, Nichole, Chris, and Rue review their fifth day touring the Westfjords of Iceland. After the previous day's tailwind, today featured 90+ miles of…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 4
Payson, Lael, Rue, Nichole, and Chris discuss a very different day on the bike: 40 miles of tailwind. They talk about the impromptu piano concert they…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 3
After a grueling 140 mile day of rain and headwinds, the group sits down to discuss Nichole's biggest day on the bike ever, Payson's favorite encounter with a…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 2
Payson, Lael, Rue, Chris, and Nichole recap their second day of riding, including conversations with locals, the evening's hot spring, and Nichole's first…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Westfjords Day 1
Payson, Nichole, Lael, Rue, and Chris recap their first day of riding, which encompassed 90 miles and included a glacier, an arctic fox, a feast of…
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Dispatches from Iceland: Pre-ride conversation
Payson, Nichole Baker, Chris Burkard, Lael Wilcox, and Rue Kaladyte join us from their hostel in Ísafjörður for their first nightly dispatch from Iceland. They…
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BEST OF: Chris Burkard in Iceland
In preparation for our upcoming daily series following Payson’s bikepacking trip of Iceland with Chris Burkard, Nichole Baker, Rue Kaladite, and Lael Wilcox…
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Peter Stetina, pro road cyclist turned gravel racer
Pete Stetina raced in the WorldTour for ten years before transitioning to gravel racing in 2019. During that time, he raced in the Tour De France, the Giro…
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Rugile Kaladyte, photojournalist and videographer
Rue Kaladyte is a photojournalist and videographer. She started out in journalism, working for the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska, where the pressures of the…
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Chris Blevins on his experience at the Tokyo Olympics
Chris Blevins returns to the show to talk about competing at this year's Olympics in Tokyo. It was a different experience than the one he anticipated in 2019…
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Neil Beltchenko, winner of the Colorado Trail Race 2021
Neil Beltchenko has competed in some of the most infamous bikepacking races for nearly a decade, including the Iditarod Trail Invitational, which he won in…
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Jeff Garmire, ultrarunner and Colorado Trail record holder
Jeff Garmire is an ultrarunner and thru-hiker who holds the unsupported running FKT for the Colorado Trail, which he completed in nine days earlier this year…
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Payson and Fred Dreier, Editor-in-chief of VeloNews, interview each other
Today on the show, Payson sits down with Fred Dreier, editor-in-chief at VeloNews. They talk about the changing face of professional cycling, the decline of…
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Haley Batten, mountain biker
Haley Batten burst onto the elite World Cup scene this year, taking the podium at back-to-back races in Nové Mesto and Albstadt, and securing herself a place…
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Kiel Reijnen, professional road cyclist
Kiel Reijnen is a professional road cyclist who currently rides for the WorldTeam Trek-Segafredo. He talks to Payson about his unique path to professional…
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Jonathan Levin: Last place finisher at Unbound
In this fourth and final Unbound recap episode, Payson talks to Jonathan Levin, the last rider to cross the finish line. Jonathan decided to race Unbound with…
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Stories from Unbound XL with Will Loevner and Amanda Nauman
In our third recap episode of Unbound Gravel, Payson sits down to talk with two racers from the Unbound XL, the 350 mile race, Will Loevner and Amanda Nauman…
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Abi Robins, Unbound Gravel’s first non-binary category finisher
Abi Robins competed in Unbound Gravel this year as the first finisher of the non-binary category. In this interview, they talk to Payson about being the only…
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Unbound recap: Winners of the 200
Today in the first part of our Unbound recap series, Payson talks to Lauren De Crescenzo and Ian Boswell, winners of the 200 mile race. Lauren talks about the…
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Rule of 3 Q&A, with special guests
Today on the show, Payson answers your questions about his first race of 2021, Rule of 3 in Bentonville, Arkansas. He talks about nutrition, race etiquette…
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Ian Boswell, pro road cyclist turned gravel racer
Ian Boswell is gravel racer who formerly raced for WorldTour teams such as Bissell, Trek-Livestrong and Team Sky. During his road career, he raced in the…
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Darian Harvey: Professional mechanic and DH racer
Darian Harvey is the service manager of Mountain Bike Specialists in Durango, CO and a former downhill National Champion. The list of pro cyclists who entrust…
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Michelle Duffy, Marketing of Life Time events and Amy Charity, co-founder of SBT GRVL
Today on the show, Payson talks to two influential behind-the-scenes figures in gravel racing. Michelle Duffy is Associate Marketing Director for Life Time…
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Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas, stars of HGTV's home renovation show 'Bargain Block'
Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas are the stars of HGTV’s home renovation show, Bargain Block, which premiered last month. In it, they buy, transform, and resell…
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Payson and Nichole answer questions about their trip to Uganda
Payson and Nichole answer your questions about their recent trip to Uganda to work for her non-profit, Path of Logic. They answer questions about Nichole’s…
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Maghalie Rochette, cyclocross racer
Maghalie Rochette is a three-time Canadian Cyclocross Champion, three-time Pan American Cyclocross Champion and Cyclocross World Cup winner. After racing for…
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Chris Burkard, Rebecca Rusch, and Gus Morton on their fat bike trek across Iceland
Today on the show, Payson is joined by photographer/adventurer Chris Burkard, “Queen of Pain” Rebecca Rusch, and adventure filmmaker Gus Morton to discuss…