Caley Fretz, former Editor-in-Chief of CyclingTips and founder of Escape Collective

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

At some point during college, Caley Fretz realized that his aspirations of becoming a professional cyclist weren’t in the cards. By the time graduation rolled around, he was sipping limoncello on the coast of Italy while covering the Giro as a journalist. He never looked back. He went on to work as Senior Editor at VeloNews before becoming Editor-in-Chief at CyclingTips. While there, he shaped the outlet into a distinctive, often humorous, writer-driven voice in the cycling space. Late last y...

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0:00.0	I pulled everyone into a like a Google Hangout thing just before we kind of hit Go on the launch.
0:04.5	And I screen recorded the whole thing because I thought it would be like a kind of big celebratory
0:08.5	moment. And it wasn't. You know, we had not taken other jobs. We had not done lots of other things
0:13.9	that we could have done that would have been sort of the safer bet financially for us for our
0:18.2	families. And we were sitting there like we have no idea if people are going to sign up for this thing.
0:22.7	We have no idea if this is going to exist in a month.
0:25.8	And the response was unbelievable.
0:29.3	It's showtime, everybody.
0:31.5	Showtime!
0:34.1	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:37.7	This is the world as it exists today.
0:42.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:45.0	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:47.5	You could miss it.
0:50.6	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:53.8	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:55.4	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:57.8	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:01.7	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:06.4	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:11.0	Hello, everyone.
1:12.0	Welcome back to the show.
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