Chequamegon recap with Melisa Rollins, last place finishers, and points analysis

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In our latest Grand Prix recap, Payson takes a recovery spin with Melisa Rollins, who won the women’s race solo and made the competition for the top spot in this year’s standings even tighter. Then, he chats with Charlie and Steve, two friends who work for the Forest Service who were the last people to cross the finish line before the cutoff. But first, Payson crunches some numbers to see where things stand with the Grand Prix points and how he thinks the final two rounds in Bentonville might...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:10.0	So did you have any doubts about going solo?
0:14.0	No.
0:15.0	Really?
0:16.0	Dang.
0:17.0	Um, it, yeah, I don't know.
0:20.0	I just, I feel like that's kind of the thing if you can get away in these races.
0:28.6	Because there's no team tactics.
0:30.6	Right.
0:31.1	I mean, there's not a lot of teams happening.
0:33.2	And I think it's hard to get a group together to chase.
0:40.9	Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.
0:43.6	Today we have our Schwagen 40 recap episode, round four of the Lifetime Grand Prix.
0:48.8	I'm recording this on Friday, September 19th, the day before the gravel national championships.
0:55.8	We're camped out here at a beautiful Airbnb in Stoddard, Wisconsin, looking out over the mighty
1:03.0	upper Mississippi River. Across the water in Minnesota is where I'll be racing nationals tomorrow.
1:13.6	Really, really cool course, a really unique course. I think we'll almost certainly do a recap episode from that race as well.
1:18.6	But today, covering Schwamigan, we have two interviews.
1:23.6	We have one with the women's winner, Melissa Rawlins. While we cooled down,
1:29.5	she and I were spinning down from the race. And Thomas Woodson, who's helping out with our
1:34.6	ride with pace episodes, filmed that so you can watch that interview along with listening to
1:42.4	it, of course. So that one will have a little bit of a different feel. And then we have more of a sit-down interview with the two last-place
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