Adventure Audio

We discuss the challenge of attempting to climb 20,000 metres (over 65,000 feet) in one week, and we share some of the best lessons we’ve learned as middle aged athletes.

Jack Thompson is an ultra endurance cyclist, better known as Jack Ultra Cyclist (www.jackultracyclist.com). We originally hosted Jack back on episode 53, in which we delve further into Jack’s journey into ultra cycling. In this episode, we’re focused on Jack’s current incredible project: to cycle 1,000,000 metres of elevation gain in one year, and to raise 1,000,000 euros for mental health chariti...

Alessandro (Alex) Pagliai is about to embark on a pedal powered trip around the world. That’s incredible on its own, but to make it that much more amazing, Alex is doing the entire trip on a Unicycle, and self supported. He is not just riding around the world, he’s going to ride all over it, planning to take roughly 5 years to complete. Alex joined us to tell us about his gear and his set up, and...

We welcome back prolific athlete, writer and podcaster Selene Yeager. We get to catch up with Selene on a number of topics, including some of the top things she’s learned about aging athletes on her podcast, Hit Play Not Pause. You can check out much more of Selene’s work at https://www.seleneyeager.com.

Over the last several months, we’ve had a few questions about gravel bikes. Mostly variations of the same basic question; what is different about gravel bikes anyway, and do I need one/should I want one? We have our friend Jim Capra back on the podcast to discuss grave bikes and the nuances of their design compared to road and cyclocross bikes. Jim is a lifelong cyclist and the head coach at Tyler...

Alex Stieda is a retired professional cyclist from Canada. From a start in track cycling, Alex joined the 7-Eleven team and raced in the 1986 Tour de France. Remarkably, Alex became the first North American to wear the race leader’s Yellow Jersey, as well as holding the jerseys for the mountain, combination, intermediate sprints and best young rider classifications. Alex tells us about the lead up...

Tyler tell us about attending the Cyclocross World’s in Arkansas, and then we discuss our new event idea for this August, 3 Days of Gravel.

Adam Roberge is a multi-discipline professional cyclist from Quebec, Canada. At just 24 years old, Adam has been a 4 time national champion and exploded onto the gravel racing scene in 2021 with an overall win at Big Surgar Gravel and becoming the Belgian Waffle Ride Triple Crown of Gravel Champion. We discuss Adam’s incredible 2021 season, and what’s ahead for 2022 with his new team, Juke Box Cyc...

Ryan Correy was an adventure cyclist, ultra endurance athlete, author and the founder of Bikepack Canada. Ryan accomplished some unbelievable adventures, such as cycling a loop around Canada and the U.S., and cycling the Pam-American Highway (from Alaska at Argentina). He also competed in some of the most gruelling cycling races in the world, including RAAM and the Tour Divide. Ryan wrote a great...

Our third and final instalment looking back on 2021. Conversions with Nick Martin, Ben Swift and Jay Jones (Boomerang Loop), Alison Tetrick, Leo Rodgers, Laura King, Tyler Munroe, Peter Coombe, Guy Townsend and Jessica Cerra.

The best of our 2021 conversations with Dirk Friel, Jeremiah Bishop and Tyler Pearce (The Vegan Cyclist), Alex Howes, Andy van Bergen, Laval St. Germain, Leah Goldstein, John Croom and Reese Ruland.

In several parts, we’re bringing you the best and most inspirational parts of our conversations from 2021. Part one includes highlights from Ryan Atkins, Fergus Liam, Steve Pucci, Larissa Connors, TJ Eisenhart, Selene Yeager, Brendan Leonard, Mark Synnott and Ronan Mc Laughlin.

Jess Cerra is a pro cyclist, a sports nutrition entrepreneur and founder/race director of the Last Best Ride in Whitefish, Montana (https://www.thelastbestridemt.com). We got to speak with Jess about her background in cycling, gravel and much more.

Guy Townsend (better know in the cycling community as Sir Guy Litespeed) is an ultra endurance cyclist from the UK. Guy has an incredible list of accomplishments in cycling, and he joins us on the podcast to tell us about his journey up the ‘World’s Hardest Climb’, Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Learn more about Guy and check out his fantastic blog at www.sirguylitespeed.com

Jim Capra joins us to discuss different approaches to off season training, getting set up for indoor cycling and goal setting.

Peter Coombe is the founder of Wheel Science, who specialize in high performance carbon fibre wheels for road, triathlon, cyclocross, gravel and now mountain bikes. Peter has a massive knowledge of all things wheels, and we’d love to hear your wheel or performance questions! Email us at adventureaudiopodcast@gmail.com

Tyler Munroe has been racing bikes for over 40 years, competing in multiple disciplines. Tyler share some stories and wisdom with us from 4 decades of cycling.

Laura King is a bike racer and the cofounder and event director of Rooted Vermont. We got to speak with Laura about her background in endurance sports, her love of cycling, and her amazing balance of her career, racing and being a mom. The amount Laura accomplishes is inspiring, and she’s a true ambassador for the sport of cycling.

In this episode we have a new training challenge for listeners, we have a mental health ‘check-in’, and we discuss getting to 100 episodes of Adventure Audio.

Leo Rodgers is an American cyclist and racer from Florida, now living in California. After losing his leg in a motorcycle accident in his early 20’s, Leo has built his life around bicycles. He’s a racer of all disciplines, loves to work on and build bikes, and serves as a huge inspiration to many.

Alison Tetrick is a professional road and gravel cyclist from California. She is a three time Gravel World Champion (2017, 2018 and 2019) and truly one of the faces of gravel racing. In addition to all of her accomplishments on the bike, she also serves on the Board of Directors of USA Cycling and is the CEO of Saga Ventures, LLC, a consulting firm based on curating meaningful community engagement...

Ben Swift and Jermaine (Jay) Jones are planning a 14,000 kilometre bike ride around Australia in August 2022, raising money for money for Australian not-for-profit organisation Mindfull Aus. Mindfull Aus work with supporting the mental health of all Australians, including vulnerable groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, unemployed persons, blue collar industries persons, you...

Nick Martin is a former professional mountain biker and the founder of The Pro’s Closet. Nick shares the story of building the company from humble beginnings, and changing the way people buy and sell bikes.

In episode 95 of the podcast, we answer a listener question about clip-in pedals and we get into the UCI’s announcement that they’ll be getting into gravel racing. Lastly, we discuss the recent tragic passing of the ‘Bike Wanderer’, Iohan Gueorguiev.

Reese Ruland is an ultra runner and cyclist, community manager at The Pro’s Closet and the founder of www.cyclingfkt.com. Reese wanted to create a hub to record the fastest known times on iconic and worthy routes for all disciplines of cycling.