Anneke Beerten on her years as a four-cross champion, retiring after a brain injury, and becoming a top skills coach

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Anneke Beerten was one of the top mountain bikers in the world for a decade, starting her career as a two-time BMX world champion before dominating the 4 cross circuit with three world titles. She’s gone through many career transitions over the years, embracing Enduro and Crankworx to earn even more accolades. In early 2020, just after finishing her best season in enduro racing, she was in a car accident that forced her to retire from racing. She spent years in rehab, moved states, and starte...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:11.7	I just went from going, you know, full gas with my life to absolutely nothing.
0:18.8	Learning to balance again, learning how to connect my brain with my hands and my eyes.
0:24.6	And I felt so off and I just didn't know what was wrong with me almost. I really struggled in the beginning with accepting that somebody else did this to me.
0:33.6	Somebody else ended up my career.
0:43.1	Hey everyone. welcome back. Onica Bearton today. I really enjoyed sitting down with Onica. A bit of a cool, full circle moment for me, actually.
0:50.9	When I was a teenager, dreaming of racing and being a pro one day, it was the earthed
0:56.8	DVDs, a series of pretty legendary movies about downhill, four cross, and the dual slalom
1:04.2	world cup that fed a lot of my inspiration. This would have been like 14, 15, 16 years old,
1:12.8	living in central Texas,
1:14.6	dreaming of riding my bike all over the world.
1:17.3	And Onica was one of the hitters in those DVDs.
1:21.1	Just absolutely throwing down in four cross races,
1:24.3	winning world titles,
1:25.3	winning world cups.
1:26.3	And she has an amazing story,
1:28.1	one that reaches far beyond just race success. So really excited to bring you this conversation
1:34.2	today. Today's episode was made possible by Osprey. And speaking of mountain biking, although I'm a
1:41.4	little bit out still from getting back onto trails. I'm not sure
1:45.7	exactly how long, but certainly looking forward to getting back on trails soon, because it is
1:50.4	springtime and beautiful. And yeah, I'm just dreaming about it. Osprey has some awesome new riding
1:57.5	packs this spring from trail hydration vests like the raptor and raven series
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