Adventure Audio

Larissa Connors is a two time winner of the Leadville 100 MTB and all around adventure junkie. We had a awesome conversation with Larissa about how she got into cycling and how she balances her career on the bike with her full time job teaching high school math and becoming a new mom. We also chat about plans going forward and Larissa’s recent rediscovery of trail running.

We have our good friend Jim Capra back on the podcast. We discuss the ‘Murph’ challenge and how that went, training, motivation and the benefits of having a ‘carrot’ to chase on your calendar, helping people get into cycling and much more.

In Tyler’s words, Steve Pucci (affectionately know as ‘Pooch’) is the godfather of Massachusetts cycling. Now retired, Steve had a long career in bicycle retail and distribution. Steve was also the longtime manager of Team CCB, a Boston based cycling club which was a stepping stone for a number of professional cyclists including Tyler, Tim Johnson, Gavin Mannion, Curtis White and Chad Young. Steve...

Fergus Liam is the North American Marketing Manager at Ritchey Design, former bike courier, racer and all around cycling enthusiast. Fergus has a massive knowledge of cycling and tells us about how he fell in love with bikes, and gives us a great look inside the cycling industry (and much more).

Ryan Atkins is a Canadian professional runner, obstacle racer, cyclist and adventure racer. We got to chat with Ryan about his record setting Everesting run, being a member of Team Canada Adventure at Eco Challenge Fiji, obstacle racing and many more of his incredible athletic accomplishments.

In our fourth and final 2020 highlights episode, we look back on conversations with MS fighter Gene Caffrey, adventure racers and endurance sports legends Mark and Travis Macy, ultra cyclist Mark Beaumont, Tom Bull of For Good Apparel, endurance cyclist DJ Ja Big, Everesting world record holder Sean Gardner, ultra runner Rickey Gates, pro cyclist and podcasts host Payson McElveen, ultra cyclist Ja...

In part 3 of our 2020 highlights, we have some of the best parts of our conversations with Lael Wilcox, Tyler Pearce (the Vegan Cyclist), Patrick Brady, Lucien Black, Dave Wiens, Mark Macy and Travis Macy, Judith Kasiama, Scott Jurek, Cullen Easter, Griffin Easter and Dr. Paula Cook of OpiCure, Marta Misztal, Amity Rockwell and John Watson of the Radavist.

The best of our conversation from 2020. Part 2 features highlights from our chats with Marshall Opel, Ian Boswell, Rickey Gates, Tom Babin, Doan Galarneau, Justin Angle, David Swain, Steve O’Shaughnessy, Ted King, Anthony Walsh, Alex Carion and Marty Jemison.

In several parts, we’re recapping some of our favourite parts of some great conversations from 2020. In part one, we look back on our chats with Sarah Hornby, Christopher McDougall, Elden Nelson, Meg Fisher, Dean Karnazes, Jim Capra, Lisa Nelson, Bonnie Ford, Chris Thornham and Selene Yeager.

Marcus Leach is an adventurer, ultra cyclist and mountaineer from Wales. Marcus has an impressive list of endurance accomplishments, including cycling all three grand tours one day ahead of the pro peloton in the same year (completing the full course of the Giro, Tour and Vuelta). Marcus shared with us his remarkable story of reinventing himself and his life around his 30th birthday, and how that...

Svein Tuft is a recently retired professional cyclist from British Columbia, Canada. In addition to competing in the world tour and finishing 11 Grand Tours, Svein is a 13 Canadian cycling championship (2 road, 11 time trial). Svein also shares some stories of his totally unconventional entry in the life of a professional cyclist and his many adventures bicycle touring in the Canadian wilderness a...

At age 18, Mike Cohen was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Leukaemia. A few years later, Mike won his battle with cancer, however as a result of all the radiation and chemotherapy treatments, his heart was damaged. In his early 30’s he suffered from a heart attack. Mike needed a heart transplant. On February 21, 2018, 32 year old James Mazzuchelli, a Navy flight surgeon, was killed in a helico...

Peter Stetina is an American off-road cyclist, who competes in gravel and endurance mountain bike racing as a privateer. Prior to this, he competed on the road in the world tour, between 2010 and 2019 for the Garmin–Sharp, BMC and Trek–Segafredo teams. We chat with Pete about his career and transition to off road racing, his cycling family, FKT’s, privateering and much more.

Patrick Farnsworth is the host of the Bikes or Death Podcast. Patrick has been an avid cyclist and outdoorsman since his days in the Boy Scouts, and Bikes or Death is simply an extension of his love for cycling and the great outdoors. Patrick joined us on the podcast from his home in Texas to chat about his love of the outdoors and the genesis the Bikes or Death. Patrick shares with us some great...

In episode 54 we welcome Jim Capra, head coach at Tyler Hamilton Training, back to the show. We discuss ‘off season’ training plans and strategies to stay fit while also giving your body some time to recover. Tyler and Pete are slowing coming around to the idea of virtual cycling, and the social aspect of connecting with friends in other parts of the world and we also get into the importance of go...

Jack Thompson is an Australia ultra cyclist, currently residing in Spain. Jack has a long list of accomplishments on the bike, including his recent world record setting ride for cycling in one week. He cycled 3505 kilometres (2177 miles) in just seven days to set the new record. We had the honour of speaking with Jack about his record attempt, other amazing rides, and his struggles with depression...

Payson McElveen is a professional cyclist and host of the Adventure Stache Podcast. He is a two time MTB marathon National Champion (2017, 2018), and has an impressive number of great results on mountain and gravel bikes. We got to chat with Payson from his home in Durango, Colorado about his career and this year chasing FKT’s (as well as much more).

Rickey Gates is a runner, writer and photographer from Colorado. Rickey has competed in ultra running races all over the world. In 2017, he set out on a run across the United States in an effort to better understand himself and his country. He has since chronicled the journey in his book, Cross Country: A 3,700-Mile Run to Explore Unseen America and the remarkable film, TransAmericana. We had the...

In this episode, we break down some of the amazing assaults on the ‘Everesting’ record over the last 8 months. We discuss the rules and the origins of the challenge, which is to gain the elevation of Mount Everest (29,029 feet) on a single road. We also had the opportunity to chat with Sean Gardner, who’s recent incredible ride saw him set a new world record and crack the 7 hour mark for the first...

Pete and Tyler discuss the World Championships, and unbelievable finish at Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the first week of the Giro D’Italia and a quick PSA about bike theft.

JaBig is a Montreal based cycling DJ who currently is on a cross-Canada bike ride to raise money for World Bicycle Relief, a charity that has distributed close to 500 000 bikes in Africa. Jean-Aimé Bigirimana, DJ JaBig, was born in Rwanda but emigrated to Kenya and South Africa at a young age before permanently settling in Canada. He is the only person in history to cycle across Canada coast-to-co...

Tom Bull is the founder of For Good Apparel. Tom was born and raised on the East Coast where playing soccer and skiing icy slopes were his main passions. He then attended Amherst College where he earned a Bachelors Degree in Economics and captained his soccer team to a Division III National Championship. After graduating in 2016 Tom moved to Colorado to pursue his passion for the mountains. Tom fo...

In this episode, we get some insight from Tyler on what was one of the greatest Tours of all time. We discuss some of the tactics and Tadej Pogačar’s amazing win.

Mark Beaumont is a Scottish ultra distance athlete and cyclist, broadcaster and author. He holds the record for cycling round the world, completing his 18,000-mile (29,000 km) route on 18 September 2017, having taken less than 79 days, which was his second journey around the globe by bicycle. We chat with Mark about his record ride and the massive logistics behind it, as well as many of his other...

Mark Macy and Travis Macy are adventure racers and ultra endurance athletes from Evergreen, Colorado. This is part two with Mark and Travis (they appeared together with us on Episode 35 in July). This time around, we’re able to discuss in much more detail their epic adventure in ‘The World’s Toughest Race’, Eco Challenge Fiji, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Both Mark and Travis have compl...