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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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Brad Copeland, Kate Courtney's mechanic
Brad Copeland is Kate Courtney’s mechanic of over seven years. But while “mechanic” may be his official title, he is so much more. Bodyguard, grocery shopper…
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Chris Blevins and Cameron Mason (Cape Epic Series 4)
In this final installment of our Cape Epic series, Payson is joined by Trinity Racing teammates Chris Blevins and Cameron Mason. Chris won the U23 cross…
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Alex Howes and Lachlan Morton (Cape Epic Series 3)
Alex Howes and Lachlan Morton are teammates on the UCI WorldTeam EF Education-Nippo. Alex is the reigning American road National Champion, and Lachlan has won…
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Nino Schurter and Lars Forster (Cape Epic Series 2)
In this second episode of our Cape Epic series, Payson is joined by Scott teammates Nino Schurter and Lars Forster. Nino is the reigning six-time World…
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Annika Langvad and Kate Courtney (Cape Epic Series 1)
Annika Langvad and Kate Courtney join Payson to talk about their experience racing as a team in the 2018 Absa Cape Epic, an eight day stage race in the Western…
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Safa Brian: Filmmaker and cyclist
Brian “Safa” Wagner has carved out a niche for himself within cycling as one of the fastest road descenders outside of the pro peloton. Through his Youtube…
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Chris Cosentino on being a restaurateur in the pandemic
Chris Cosentino is a celebrity chef and avid cyclist, best known for his many television appearances on shows such as Top Chef Masters (which he won), and for…
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Jolanda Neff, XC World Champion
Jolanda Neff is one of the most decorated cross country mountain bike racers in the world. In addition to winning the XC World Championship 2017, she has won…
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Ted King on bikepacking and the uncertainties of the 2021 season
Ted King returns to the show to talk about the uncertainties of 2021, leaning into the Vermont winter weather, and why he isn’t stressing about perfect…
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Episode 100 Special: Justin Williams on signing with Red Bull (with Colin Strickland)
In this very special one hundredth episode, Payson, Justin, and Colin are reunited nearly a year after their first conversation on the show. They talk about…
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Pat Lemieux, athlete agent
Pat Lemieux may be best known as the husband of Olympic gold medalist Gwen Jorgensen, but he has recently entered into a new role as an athlete agent following…
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Maddie Munro, cyclocross racer
Maddie Munro is one of the brightest up and coming stars of the cyclocross scene. Following her bronze medal at the 2020 junior World Championships, she joined…
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Anton Cooper, Cross country racer
Anton Cooper is a fixture of the World Cup cross country scene. He won the U23 World Championships in 2015 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but perhaps his…
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Ellen Noble, cyclocross racer
Ellen Noble returns to the show to talk about developments in life and training since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition to moving states, she has also…
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Aaron Lutze, athlete marketing manager at Red Bull
Aaron Lutze is an athlete marketing manager at Red Bull where he works with an illustrious roster of talent including Kate Courtney, Carson Storch, and Rebecca…
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Stéphane Tempier, cross country mountain biker
Stéphane Tempier is a professional mountain biker who has been a fixture on the cross country World Cup circuit for over a decade. He placed second overall in…
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Rebecca Rusch, "The Queen of Pain"
Over the course of a more than 30 year career, Rebecca Rusch has become one of the foremost athletes in ultra-endurance adventure sports. Whether rock…
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Hattie Harnden, U21 Enduro world champion
Hattie Harnden is a professional cyclist whose relatively short career has spanned multiple disciplines and garnered her both national and international…
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Evie Richards, cyclocross and cross country cyclist
Evie Richards is a cross country and cyclocross racer who rides for Trek Factory Racing. She won the U23 cyclocross World Championship in 2016 and 2018, and…
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Kerry McCauley, ferry pilot
Kerry McCauley is a ferry pilot who delivers planes around the world, usually on routes that not many other pilots are willing to take. The planes are often…
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Martha Schoppe: Smokejumper
Martha Schoppe is a smokejumper, one of a select group of firefighters that parachute to the location of the wildfires they’re tasked with controlling. Out of…
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Sarah Sturm, professional gravel and mountain bike racer
Sarah Sturm is an all terrain cyclist who’s raced road, cross country, cyclocross, and gravel. After moving to Colorado to attend Fort Lewis College, she fell…
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Alison Tetrick, professional road and gravel cyclist
Alison Tetrick is a professional cyclist who started her career racing on the road in the WorldTour before transitioning to gravel, for which she holds three…
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Paris Gore, action sports photographer
Paris Gore is a photographer whose work has featured in ESPN, Bicycling Magazine, National Geographic, and Outside Magazine. His clients have included Adidas…
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Hannah Bergemann, freeride mountain biker
Hannah Bergemann is a freeride mountain biker whose performance at Red Bull’s first ever female freeride event, Formation, gained her widespread public…
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Kait Boyle, ultra-endurance mountain bike racer
Kait Boyle is an ultra-endurance mountain bike racer whose achievements on the bike include winning the 24-hour World Championship in 2018, holding the women's…
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Jesse Jakomait, Colorado Trail record holder
Jesse Jakomait is a bikepack racer and SRAM design engineer who holds the record on the Colorado Trail. He broke the record on his fifth attempt in 2015…
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Kurt Refsnider, professional bikepack racer
Kurt Refsnider is a professional bikepack racer who holds records for the Arizona Trail 750 and Grand Loop. He’s also won multiple bikepacking races including…
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Eric Porter, freeride and adventure mountain biker
Freeride pioneer and adventure mountain biker Eric Porter joins Payson from his home in Park City, Utah to talk about his adventures on the bike. As one of the…
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Sepp Kuss, midway through the Tour de France
Sepp Kuss checks in from Grenoble, France on a rest day between stages 15 and 16 of the Tour. Since he was last on the show in December 2019 (Episode 41)…
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Nichole Baker: Part 4, on the struggles and successes of creating a medical nonprofit
Nichole Baker returns for the last episode in this four part series to talk about her nonprofit organization, Path of Logic. Founded in 2016 after Nichole’s…
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Nichole Baker: Part 3, on exploring the world by bike, screaming monkeys, and finding adventure in your backyard
In this third part of our ongoing series, Nichole Baker talks to Payson about some of her most thrilling and harrowing adventures by bike. From screaming…
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Nichole Baker: Part 2, on “voluntourism” and the two weeks in Haiti that changed her life
Nichole Baker returns to the show to talk about her rocky introduction to international charity work while on a trip to Haiti in 2016. Tasked with setting up a…
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Nichole Baker, adventure athlete, philanthropist, and medical professional
Nichole Baker is an adventure athlete, philanthropist, and medical professional (who also happens to be Payson’s girlfriend). Her work as a pathologist’s…
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Eliot Jackson, downhill mountain biker
Eliot Jackson is a downhill mountain biker who rides for the Giant Factory Off-Road Team. He’s competed on the UCI World Cup circuit and on the Crankworx World…
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Mark Twight, mountaineer, author, and trainer
Mark Twight returns to the show to talk about transitions, decision paralysis, and, of course, the nuances and science of athletic optimization. Throughout his…
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Sean Hopkins, SRAM engineer
Sean Hopkins is a quality engineer at SRAM. He joins Payson to talk about how he fell in love with bikes while growing up on the south side of Chicago, being…
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Koen de Kort, road cyclist
Koen de Kort is a professional road cyclist who currently rides for the UCI WorldTeam Trek-Segafredo. After 15 years on the WorldTour, he is one of the most…
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Quarantine Companion #13 with Rachel Olzer
Rachel Olzer is an activist, evolutionary biologist, and mountain biker, who has become a leading voice in the current wave of racial justice advocacy taking…
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Quarantine Companion #12 with Ruth Winder
Ruth Winder is a professional road cyclist who rides for the UCI Women’s WorldTeam Trek-Segafredo. In this conversation, she talks about her nail-biting win at…
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Quarantine Companion #11 with Kate Courtney
In this episode of Quarantine Companion, mountain bike World Champion Kate Courtney returns to the show to talk about how her life and training have changed in…
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Quarantine Companion #10 with Chloé Dygert
Chloé Dygert is a track cyclist who has won five world championships and a silver medal from the Rio Olympics in 2016. She currently races for the UCI team…
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Quarantine Companion #9: A conversation about racial justice with Christopher Blevins and Justin Williams
In this special episode, Payson and Justin are joined by fellow pro cyclist, Christopher Blevins, for a wide ranging conversation about racial justice. Growing…
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Quarantine Companion #8 with Coryn Rivera
Coryn Rivera is a road cyclist who rides for the UCI WorldTeam Team Sunweb. Over her 16 years of racing, she’s achieved 72 national titles and won the Tour of…
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Quarantine Companion #7 with Chase Garrett
Chase Garrett is a former Red Bull athlete marketing manager, and founder and CEO of Icon Source, an online marketing platform connecting brands with…
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Quarantine Companion #6 with Ellen Noble
Four-time cyclocross national champion and world champion silver medalist Ellen Noble returns to The Adventure Stache to chat about how life has changed since…
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Quarantine Companion #5 with Todd Ballard
Todd Ballard is the former Chief Marketing Officer at GoPro. During his nine years there, he was instrumental in elevating the brand to global recognition and…
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Quarantine Companion #4 with Ayesha McGowan
Ayesha McGowan is a professional road cyclist. As the first African American woman to reach pro status in cycling, she balances her racing career with advocacy…
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Quarantine Companion #3 with Robert Gesink
In the third episode of Quarantine Companion, Payson and Justin are joined from Andorra by pro cyclist Robert Gesink, whose many accomplishments include 4th…
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One Year Anniversary Episode with Reggie Miller
In celebration of The Adventure Stache turning one year old, Payson visited Reggie Miller, the show's first ever guest, at his home outside Los Angeles. Along…
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Quarantine Companion #2 with Rahsaan Bahati
In this episode of Quarantine Companion, Payson and Justin are joined by cyclist Rahsaan Bahati, whose twenty-year career in criterium and track racing…
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Quarantine Companion #1 with co-host Justin Williams
In this first installment of Quarantine Companion, Payson is joined by co-host Justin Williams to lay the groundwork for this new limited series. They talk…
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Brook MacDonald, downhill mountain biker
Brook MacDonald is one of the best downhill mountain bikers in the world and has snagged multiple podium spots on the UCI World Cup circuit since he began…
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Justin Williams round 2, road cyclist
Justin Williams returns to the podcast after appearing for the first time in episode 48 with Kate Courtney and Colin Strickland. In this episode, he and Payson…
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Larissa Connors, mountain biker
Larissa Connors is a two-time winner of both the Leadville 100 mountain bike race and Belgian Waffle Ride. Payson caught up with her at her home in Orange…
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Sarah Bidgood, nuclear nonproliferation expert
Sarah Bidgood is a leading nuclear nonproliferation expert and Director of the Eurasian nonproliferation program at the James Martin Center for…
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"The Mid South" Q&A Special: Payson answers your questions
Following Payson’s win at the historically muddy “The Mid South” gravel race, many asked for a Q&A episode giving a look inside the race. In this episode…
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Nik Hawks: veteran, entrepreneur, athlete
Nik Hawks is an entrepreneur, athlete, and veteran (Navy SEAL). Among his many pursuits, he is a paraglider, writer, podcaster, Red Bull athletic performance…
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Tyler Jewell, Red Bull athlete performance coach
Tyler Jewell is an athlete performance coach at Red Bull, and has been instrumental in helping athletes reach the heights of their sports and come back from…
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Hans Rey, mountain biking icon
Hans Rey is a pioneer of extreme mountain biking and a former trials riding world champion. After retiring from professional competitions in 1997, Hans forged…