Christian Meier on leaving the WorldTour for ultrarunning

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Christian Meier made an unusual decision: at the age of 31, he walked away from a successful WorldTour career a year before his contract was due to end to focus on the coffee shop he and his wife had just opened in Girona, Spain. That year, they opened two more businesses. After dabbling in off-road racing for a couple of years, he made a second unconventional transition. He started competing in trail running events and found so much fulfillment in it that his focus began to gravitat...

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0:00.0	When I first started running, did I really think that I would go to the point where, you know,
0:07.0	I was thinking about becoming a professional athlete again? Probably not really, but just kind of
0:13.0	falling your heart and following the evolution of, wow, I'm really getting into this and I'm really enjoying it.
0:18.0	And like, I'm really loving like I really love training again and like
0:21.8	hammering in the specifics and you know marginal gains and altitude tents and you
0:27.2	know all those like measuring lactate like these are all cool things that you're like
0:30.8	oh this is sweet and I want to see now maybe how far can I take it on a performance level
0:36.4	to see what adventure brings it, it's pretty cool.
0:40.0	It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:44.9	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:48.5	This is the world as it exists today.
0:53.4	Life moves pretty fast.
0:55.8	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:58.1	You could miss it.
1:01.4	Listen, we talk about practice.
1:04.6	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:06.1	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:08.5	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:12.4	Don't ever trash top black Jesus.
1:17.1	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:21.7	Hello, everyone.
1:22.5	Welcome back to the show.
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