Girls Gone Gravel podcast

This week we’re chatting with Rachel Cohen and Pamela Robichaud, co-organizers of The Ranger, a gravel enduro in Vermont. Rachel Cohen is a mountain and gravel cyclist in Jericho, VT. She is passionate about getting more people, particularly young Vermonters, on bikes in any capacity. She is a high school humanities teacher, serves as the president of Vermont Youth Cycling, and leads a weekly wome...

This week we are bringing you a special episode; the live launch of Feisty Media’s newest production, the Feisty Women’s Performance Podcast.  We have observed that there is A LOT of B.S. information out there for women coming from the fitness and health industries, which gets even worse as we age. Because of this, we saw the need to bring trusted information to women so we can feel and perfo...

On this week’s episode Kathryn and Kristi welcome Rebecca Brough from Boulder, CO. Rebecca is the founder of Ride or Die Collective, a riding community and race team to get more women and non binary people on bikes and at start lines. As a competitive swimmer growing up, Rebecca found triathlon after moving to Boulder. She quickly realized that cycling was her favorite discipline of the 3, and sta...

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi catch up with cyclist, professional triathlete, and Girls Gone Gravel podcast editor Lindsay Glassford. She talks about her path into triathlon and cycling, and how being part of the podcast inspired her to get a gravel bike and explore the many gravel roads in her home province of British Columbia. Lindsay opens up about her recents struggles with RED-S, a...

On this week’s episode Kathryn and Kristi are chatting with professional cyclist Hannah Otto. At 26, Hannah has already spent more than half of her life as an endurance sport athlete. She raced her first triathlon at age nine, and quickly found success in the sport. When she was 16 Hannah won the women’s overall age-group title at the Xterra World Championships, and she talks about how that was th...

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Jen Gurecki. Jen is the CEO of Coalition Snow, creator of Apres Delight, and the founder of Zawadisha, a non-profit that provides small loans to women in rural Kenya to help finance their livelihoods. A true entrepreneur and problem solver, Jen talks about her experiences in Kenya and what inspired her to create a micro-lending program for wom...

Welcome to our first episode of 2022! This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi catch up with cyclist and diversity advocate Brooke Goudy. Brooke’s love for cycling started as a child when she got her first bike as a Christmas present, and grew to a life-long passion. Brooke moved to Colorado and found a new passion in mountain biking, but she was struck by the lack of representation of people of c...

On this week’s episode of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Abi Robins. Abi is an amateur cyclist, enneagram coach, and an advocate for trans, queer & non-binary rights. Abi identifies as non-binary, and was the winner of the non-binary category at Unbound Gravel in 2021, just one year after purchasing their first bike. Since their win, Abi has found themself in the spotlight as...

On this week’s episode, Kathryn and Kristi are chatting with cyclist Marley Blonsky. Last month, Marley was featured in the Shimano film All Bodies on Bikes with her friend and fellow cyclist Kailey Kornhauser. As a self proclaimed fat cyclist, Marley tells us about her mission to make the cycling industry more inclusive for all people of all sizes, and discusses with Kathryn and Kristi how leader...

This week on Girls Gone Gravel Kathryn and Kristi chat with ultra-runner and cyclist Hillary Allen. A self-proclaimed “science nerd,” Hillary took up running in graduate school as a stress reliever while working towards her PhD in neuroscience and physiology. She quickly excelled in the sport and found her way to the top of the ultra running world. In 2017 she was number one in the World Sky Runni...

This week Kathryn & Kristi have a special live episode with guests Aimee Ross and Scotti Lechuga to officially announce the launch of the Gone Graveling Festival that Girls Gone Gravel will be hosting in Bentonville, AR April 28-30, 2022. Scottie and Aimee are both residents of Bentonville and they give us their insider perspective of all of the great things the town has to offer. The four also ta...

This week on the show, Kristi is chatting with Susan Cronin and Cait Dumas-Hein. The pair are part of the organizational team of Grounded Nebraska, a gravel race and festival located in Roca, Nebraska. The inaugural event will be taking place on June 25, 2022, and Susan & Cait talk about the hard work that they have put in to make sure that riders of all identities will be represented at their eve...

This week on the show Kathryn is chatting with Registered Dietician and former professional cyclist Kristen Arnold. As a Registered Dietician, Kristen has always been most interested in nutrition for athletes, and female athletes specifically. She is a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics as well as a USA Cycling Level 2 coach - so she really knows her stuff! Kristen talks through some of the...

This week on Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and special guest host Alison Tetrick sit down with Kate Gates to chat about her business in the mountains of North Georgia. Kate is the co-owner of Mulberry Gap Adventure Base Camp, an outdoor paradise nestled in the woods outside of Ellijay, GA. The facility provides its guests with access to hundreds of miles of singletrack in the surrounding mountains, a...

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi catch up with cyclist and gravel lover Taneika Duhaney. She talks about how her young daughter got her inspired to take her riding from indoor trainer bike to out on the open roads, and how she got hooked on gravel through a scholarship opportunity that allowed her to dive head on into the sport. Taneika dared herself to get into gravel riding after realizi...

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi are catching up with cyclist, and bike packing enthusiast Crystal Kovacs. She tells us about her introduction to the sport, and how the purchase of a fat tire bike completely changed her perspective on cycling. Crystal grew up going on long horse packing trips with her parents. She explains how the experiences and memories she shared with her parents motiva...

This week on Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Pathology PA and adventure cycling enthusiast Nichole Baker. We were first introduced to Nichole when we heard about her epic route-planning skills from Jess Cera & Laura King (Episode 66). In this episode Nichole tells us about her own path into the world of mountain biking, bike packing, and adventuring cycling. Many of Nichole’s t...

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Lauren Pickman. Lauren is a central figure of the cycling community in Bentonville, AR and founding member of the Women of Oz cycling group. The group started with a handful of women who were curious about getting out onto the trails in Bentonville and has now expanded to include weekly groups rides, clinics, and a free monthly flagship group...

On this week’s episode, Kathryn and Kristi are chatting with photographer and cyclist Dominique Powers. This summer, Dominique created and shot The Leaders of Gravel, a photography series that captures images and tells the stories of women leaders making change in the world of gravel cycling (including Kristi Mohn!). She talks about what inspired the project, how it came to be, and what she learne...

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi are chatting with cyclist and marketing guru Jill Nazeer. Jill is the Marketing Director for the Alta Cycling group, the parent company for Diamondback Bikes. Diamondback has been rolling full steam ahead into the world of gravel, and in 2020 they partnered with their sponsored athlete Rach McBride to develop the Eat My Dust gravel scholarship. The goal of...

On this week’s episode of Girls Gone Gravel Kathryn and Kristi catch up with cyclist and route-planning expert Linda English. In 2014 Linda and her husband founded Dirty Freehub, an online resource for cyclists looking for vetted gravel routes. Since then, the site has grown into a non-profit organization that offers resources to gravel cyclists looking to plan rides and routes across the western...

This week on the podcast Kathryn and Kristi welcome back two recurring guests, Laura King & Jess Cerra, to talk about their most recent bike packing adventure. After Jess hosted her gravel event the Last Best Ride in Whitefish MT, the pair packed up their gear and headed for the Colorado trail for an epic 4-day trip. They fill us in on all of the details, from what they packed, their route, the bi...

This week on the podcast Kathryn & Kristi chat with former professional cyclist Mari Holden. Mari confesses she has been in love with the sport of cycling since getting her first bike as a kid. This love took her all the way to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where she won a silver medal in the time trial. Mari spent her professional cycling career racing on the road across Europe and North...

On this week’s episode Kristi & Kathryn are chatting with cyclist and US Paralympic hopeful Josie Fouts. Josie tells us about the first date that got her interested in cycling, and how that eventually led to her leaving her full time job as a microbiome lab manager to pursue a full-time career as a cyclist. After racing at the Para Pan Am Games in 2019 Josie realized her bike handling skills neede...

On this week’s episode of Girls Gone Gravel, Kathryn and Kristi are joined by Abi Robins. Abi is an amateur cyclist, enneagram coach, and an advocate for trans, queer & non-binary rights. Abi identifies as non-binary, and was the winner of the non-binary category at Unbound Gravel in 2021, just one year after purchasing their first bike. Since their win, Abi has found themself in the spotlight as...