2025 in review (with Nichole Baker)

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

We're back from our holiday break, and Payson and Nichole are here to recap a packed 2025. They offer a peek behind the curtain at their year, from the emotional toll of Payson's broken hip last spring to finally offloading one of the worst investments of all time. They also answer listener questions about Nichole's first year of structured training and racing, their favorite off the bike accomplishments of the year, and coffee. This episode is sponsored by TrainingPeaks. Visit trainingpeaks....

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:11.8	We're driving just across Edinburgh.
0:15.2	I'm like, where the hell is the airport?
0:16.8	Like, can't see the airport at all.
0:18.5	I'm going to, I'm going to say it.
0:20.0	You gave up.
0:21.0	I did. I did because. Pacing gave all. I'm going to, I'm going to say it. You gave up. I did.
0:21.7	I did because.
0:23.0	Gave up.
0:24.0	I started to protect myself from disappointment.
0:28.9	And I told him, no, you do not shut down after putting me through that.
0:33.2	No, I wasn't shutting down.
0:34.2	We are going to see this through to the end of the race until we've lost and we know it was lost.
0:42.3	Hello, we're back after a holiday break.
0:49.1	We're in Girona, Spain.
0:50.9	We relocated here for our traditional winter base, which ironically is the longest
0:58.4	period of time we spend in one place every year, which I think we'll talk about today. But we thought
1:04.5	we'd get on today together, Nicole and me, to do a little recap of 2025, look ahead to 26 a bit, answer some
1:16.8	listener questions. We had lots of great questions sent in via Instagram, email. What else? I think
1:25.9	there was another mode in there that I'm not remembering.
1:29.2	But we basically pulled together a few of our favorites,
1:32.5	which we'll kind of wrap this episode with.
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