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The Adventure Stache

Cam Jones on his U23 misadventures in Europe and growing up in New Zealand

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

4.9727 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Cam Jones has had a pretty memorable 2025 season, rocketing from Grand Prix wild card to winner of Unbound. And yet, that dramatic turn of events pales in comparison to his 2022 season. For his final year as a U23, Cam planned to race every World Cup in the hope that it might secure him a team for the start of his Elite career. After a promising start to the season, things went downhill fast. Kidney failure, Covid, and a five-day stint in a Belgian detention center followed, and somehow, that...

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0:00.0

I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.

0:07.0

I ended up taking myself down to the hospital one day, rode myself down the hill to the hospital knowing that if they didn't fix me I wasn't going to be able to ride back up.

0:20.0

It was a getting a bit dire and then they did some blood test.

0:24.6

No one really spoke English.

0:26.6

And then all of a sudden all these nurses were like rushing to me and like putting me on like an IV drip

0:29.6

and I was like, what's wrong with me?

0:31.6

And then eventually one of the higher up doctors came in and like, the kidney wasn't really working.

0:48.7

Hello and welcome back, everyone. Cam Jones has returned. We did the Cam Jones post Unbound episode, but there's a lot more to Cam than merely being the defending king of gravel.

0:55.7

He's got an incredible story.

0:57.4

I knew bits and pieces of it, but as you'll hear in this episode,

1:00.9

getting more details often kind of left my jaw on the floor.

1:06.0

I was really excited to sit down with him here at our studio in Durango

1:09.9

as he prepped for the Leadville 100.

1:12.7

I think you're really going to enjoy this one. Today's episode is presented by Map.

1:17.8

Maps famed Map Labs are known for being the home of great coffee, local brews, shared stories,

1:25.3

community events, and group rides. They have locations in Shanghai,

1:30.8

Melbourne, Amsterdam, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Berlin, Taipei City, all over the world.

1:37.6

And very soon, there will be Map Lab, L.A. 910, Abbott-Kinney Boulevard, Venice, California, to be exact.

1:47.1

L.A. is a place I've spent a lot of time with Red Bull North America being based there,

1:51.4

and also some of the best riding in the country, believe it or not. I've lost count of how many

1:55.9

training camps I've done in this area, but hands down, it has some of the best road riding

2:00.1

and most entertaining gravel

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