Alexey Vermeulen on shaking up the Grand Prix and bringing new talent into the sport

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Alexey Vermeulen has a lot of thoughts on how US gravel can improve. A 100-mile Unbound. A U23 field. Fewer elite riders in the Grand Prix—the list goes on. Since leaving the WorldTour to join the American off-road scene, Alexey has become one of the most prominent racers in the sport, finishing second overall in the first two years of the Grand Prix and being a leading voice among his peers through a host of media projects. This year, he’s started a post-race debrief podcast with Keegan Swen...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:05.0	It's crazy how I feel like you probably agree to like the last three, four years has just fast forwarded.
0:17.0	It's gone so quickly.
0:18.0	And I feel if there's any chance any of us
0:22.8	can win the Grand Prix,
0:24.3	someone else has to win other than Keegan, otherwise
0:26.4	it will die. It won't
0:28.7	die. It'll be invalidated.
0:30.8	Yeah. And I've been close enough that I think I owe it a
0:34.6	good shot. Yeah. But it's easy
0:36.6	to say at the beginning of the year. It's hard to hold it a good shot. Yeah. But it's easy to say at the beginning of the year.
0:37.7	It's hard to hold it together all year.
0:41.8	Hi, everyone.
0:42.8	Welcome back.
0:43.8	We took advantage of Alexei Vermiland being in town for Rule of Three to catch up for the first time since 2021.
0:52.8	Quite a lot has changed in our little corner of the sport since that last conversation.
0:59.4	And a lot's changed in his life too.
1:00.8	So it seemed high time.
1:04.3	He's one of the riders often at the front of the biggest gravel races in the world,
1:09.2	but also someone putting seemingly just as much effort
1:13.2	into documenting the sport, storytelling around it, and just throwing his weight behind
1:19.1	pushing this whole discipline forward. And so I guess, yeah, kind of in that regard,
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