Alex Miller on growing up in rural Namibia and joining Swatt Club

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Alex Miller is a two-time Olympic XC racer from Namibia with multiple road and XC marathon national titles. These days, he lives in Girona and races for Swatt Club, splitting his schedule between gravel, road, and mountain bike races. He joins Payson this week to talk about growing up on a 49,000-acre farm in Namibia, his journey to becoming an XC Olympian, the time he beat Matt Beers in a sprint, and how he might have some sneaky WorldTour aspirations. Instagram: @withpacepodcast YouTu...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:11.7	The farm is like 20,000 hictures.
0:15.7	How many acres is that, Nico?
0:17.6	49,000 acres you grew up on what?
0:20.6	So you can imagine there's like...
0:22.6	That is insane.
0:24.6	When I think back at growing up on the farm, like I think like, damn, I had a pretty, pretty special
0:31.6	childhood.
0:32.6	And like, for me, when I was growing up there, it was so normal.
0:36.6	It was like, what me, when I was growing up there, it was so normal. It was like, yeah, what else?
0:40.3	Hello, everyone, welcome back.
0:42.1	We have an episode today that I've had in the back of my mind for a handful of months.
0:47.5	Ever since I met Alex Miller at Gravelburn in the fall, I've wanted to do this episode.
0:55.0	I got to know him a little bit in his really unique story, unique upbringing at that
1:01.5	race when we ran into each other at dinner one night and have had the goal of having him
1:08.0	on the podcast ever since.
1:09.2	He's an absolute unit of a bike racer,
1:11.4	but his background where he comes from, the lifestyle, he comes from all a very unique story.
1:18.6	And I think it blends really interestingly with some conversation around racing. It's just a
1:24.4	really neat story arc too. So I hope you enjoy today's conversation with
1:28.2	Alex. I want to say thank you to Training Peaks for supporting today's episode. Following a
1:35.2	kind of mea performance in Morocco, I've enjoyed a really nice fitness boost thanks to
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