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With Pace

Ellen Noble on early retirement and starting conversations about mental health

With Pace

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 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, 2x cyclocross national champion Ellen Noble was coming off the best season in her life when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. After another season of racing, she went all-in on training in 2020 and was ready for her comeback, but a crash early in the season left her with a broken back and a resurgence in symptoms from her disease. Even under these circumstances, she never considered retirement until her coach, Allen Lim, told her that she didn’t have to be a profess...

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0:00.0

I didn't ever think about quitting more than like in brief little moments where I was like,

0:05.2

oh my God, is this the end? It always felt like quitting or giving up with something that like

0:10.2

happened to me. It never felt like something that I would consciously make the decision of.

0:14.3

And then finally one day, you're sitting in the kitchen. And he said, you know that you don't have

0:20.0

to do this anymore. Like you don't have to do this this afternoon that you don't have to do this anymore.

0:26.0

Like, you don't have to do this this afternoon, and you don't have to do this tomorrow.

0:35.2

And I felt like I got punched in the stomach, but it was the biggest sigh of relief I had ever felt.

0:37.5

It's showtime, everybody.

0:38.8

Showtime!

0:43.1

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

0:47.5

This is the world as it exists today.

0:51.1

Life moves pretty fast.

0:53.6

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

0:57.4

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

1:04.5

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

1:13.1

This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.

1:17.4

Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.

1:19.9

We're back to the long form interviews today.

1:22.9

Ellen Noble comes back on the show for the first time at a pretty good while.

1:27.0

Those of you all that are familiar with the show will know that we often have

1:30.1

conversations with incredibly successful people, people who are living their dreams,

1:36.0

certainly have gone through hardship, but more often than not are kind of crushing the game

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