Biking the Iditarod in Search of Pain

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Among people who spend a lot of time in the wilderness, there’s a notion that the trail is our teacher. And if you talk to serious outdoor adventurers, you quickly realize just how powerful trail lessons can be. Take the case of professional endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch, who was schooled over the last several winters while riding a bike across the Alaska Range as a racer in the 350-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational. Rusch has long been lauded for her ability to push through the most agonizing of competitive events, but she discovered a new kind of suffering in Alaska—which is exactly what she was after. In this episode of our new series, The Wild Files, Rusch takes us through her hardest moments on the trail and explains why pushing herself to go way, way outside her comfort zone was essential for her progression as an athlete and as a human being. This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the all-new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport, a 4x4 SUV with seven available G.O.A.T. modes that enable it to go over any type of terrain. Learn more at ford.com/bronco

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0:00.0	This episode of The Outside Podcast is brought to you by the all-new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport.
0:06.4	A 4x4 SUV with seven available goat modes that enable it to go over any type of terrain.
0:13.7	For the designers working on the Bronco Sport, the challenge was to recreate a vehicle that
0:18.4	lives up to a legend.
0:20.2	It was such an opportunity.
0:22.0	How could you ask for something more exciting than that is to bring back an icon on
0:27.4	That's exterior designer Dan Kangus.
0:30.2	He really likes his job.
0:31.9	I probably talk about cars more than my wife would like.
0:36.5	The Bronco Sport offers the kinds of sophisticated features that you dream of in a modern SUV.
0:43.3	Like Ford Copilot 360 driver assist technologies.
0:47.8	And yet, the look and feel is true to the classic and rugged Bronco heritage.
0:53.5	It's like a tool.
0:55.0	What's there is only what's necessary.
0:57.9	Dan's team closely studied vintage Broncos and they also attended serious off-road races
1:04.4	to spend time with the most dedicated four-wheel drive owners.
1:08.6	You're surviving in a dust cloud pretty much, watching these vehicles go flying by.
1:13.4	It's really insane, but it's getting inspired by the true race vehicles that are out there
1:19.0	because those are the most bare bones stripped down.
1:21.8	Honest vehicles there are, right?
1:23.4	It gives you a reality check.
1:24.6	Okay, well, what can we take out to give people what they need and not what they don't?
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