036: Can You Ride a City Bike Up the Toughest Climb in the Tour de France

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How far would you take a dare, especially one that started as a joke? These guys took it all the way up Mont Ventoux, the iconic slog of the Tour de France, on a clunky cumbersome rental bike built for flat city lanes. They attempt the same feat up Mt. Washington. Why? Because others were calling it impossible. They were also driven by a worthy cause, Macmillan Cancer Support. Faced with adversity every step of the way, they pushed forward, always eking out a solution. Their achievement epitomizes the adage "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." http://www.spartanuppodcast.com/036

Lessons:
1. People saying it's impossible makes it all the better.
2. Keep going even when it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Things will often pull together at the last moment.
3. Just start it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it. Spartan Up podcast.com. We've got the team, the Colonel, Colonel Tim Nye, the
0:25.4	Wild Woman, Sefra, the rewilding expert, love that title. Jota Sey
0:30.1	Johnny. Just Joe. Just Joe Spartan Rate. And I'm Johnny, we're calling me Dr.
0:36.3	Johnny and I'm loving it. I'm going to keep this. Yeah, it's starting to really fit.
0:39.6	So, well we're here in Pittsfield, we're going to be going virtually to Dell over in the UK.
0:46.0	She is our amazing foreign correspondent covers everything about that end of the world
0:51.0	and she's found us three really incredible guys so
0:53.4	tell me about this Joe yeah so they you can rent bicycles now in cities in New York
0:56.9	they've got those city Citibank bikes yeah like 50 pound bikes and these
1:01.2	lunatics want to go do a section of the tour to France on these bikes.
1:06.0	So when Del told us about him, I said, you got it, you got to interview these guys.
1:10.0	Yeah, I'm smiling just here and Anna.
1:12.0	Is it going?
1:13.0	No.
1:14.0	Push that top button.
1:16.0	There we go.
1:17.0	I'm got numbers now.
1:18.0	So hello and welcome to this episode of Spartan Up.
1:21.0	We are sat here with three men who've done something really
1:24.0	unusual. I'm going to let them introduce themselves. I'm Rob Holden. I'm
1:28.8	Matt Winston. I'm Ian Lorry. And Rob tell us what you've done we I know that you took one of the Boris bikes from London which is a higher bike which is extremely heavy and you did something quite unusual with it
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