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With Pace

Chris Burkard interviews Payson about his Iceland crossing record

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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

4.8767 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, photographer and Iceland expert Chris Burkard turns the tables on Payson to interview him about his record-setting self-supported 257 mile ride from the northernmost tip of Iceland to the southernmost tip in just under 20 hours. They talk about his gear and nutrition choices and how the ride stacks up against some of the other challenges he's done in recent years. They also talk to Evan, one of the photographers documenting the effort, and Nichole, Payson's girlfriend. ...

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0:00.0

I catch myself with my bike.

0:01.7

Most of the bike goes in the ocean and like one of my feet goes in the ocean, but most of my body stays out.

0:07.4

I'm like, oh my God, what a start.

0:09.7

Literally all we've been talking about is how to stay dry during this whole thing.

0:13.4

I'm literally just falling into the ocean.

0:16.0

You guys, I need 15 minutes more.

0:19.0

It's showtime, everybody.

0:21.1

Showtime!

0:23.8

You've been living in a dream world, Neil.

0:27.5

This is the world as it exists today.

0:32.4

Life moves pretty fast.

0:34.8

You don't stop and look around once in a while.

0:37.1

You could miss it.

0:40.4

Listen, we're talking about practice. Repeat on the dude's room. Donnie, you're out of your element.

0:47.5

I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.

0:56.1

This is the adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.

1:00.9

Hello everyone.

1:02.0

Welcome back to the show.

1:03.5

I hope that you've enjoyed the crazy mad dash of podcasts we've had over the last week covering daily our West Fjord's Way trip.

1:14.0

It seems like we've done about 10 podcasts in like 10 days or something, but we're sticking to our

1:20.1

regularly scheduled Tuesdays as well. And this week we have a little bit of a different setup.

1:25.4

Chris Burkhard has been very adamant about interviewing me on this podcast playing host about my recent Iceland crossing effort where I rode

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