Ep. 104 ~ Ben, Ezra, Stephanie, 2 episodes in 1
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
Ben Playter and Ezra Ward-Packard are currently on their bikes riding across American. Today is actually the final day of their trip which ends in Florida. I caught up with them in Austin thanks to Stephanie Hall who turned me onto them and gave us a spot to record. So today's episode is kind of a two for one.
First I chat with Ben and Ezra about their trip which was highly entertaining. These two friends have much different approaches and it resulted in an interesting dynamic they had to work through. Hint, one of them is touring and the other is training for a run at Tour Divide this year.
Then Stephanie joins Ezra to discuss riding with Type 1 Diabetes. Both of them have accomplished some cool things on the bike and learning to manage their diabetes is a critical part. They share some of their experiences and tips to help other people with diabetes get out on their damn bikes. Ezra was actually on Team Nova Nordisk, a professional road cycling team made up entirely of racers with Type 1 diabetes. How cool is that?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:04.9 | and I'm your host. And today's episode is with my new friends, Ezra Ward Packard, and Benjamin |
| 0:14.1 | Plater, and Stephanie Hall. This is kind of a two-in-one episode. So let me break it down for you real quick. Essentially, |
| 0:23.8 | we have Ezra and Ben, who are two buddies crossing America on their bike going west to east. |
| 0:32.3 | And Stephanie Hall lives in Austin. She put them on my radar. So we all met up in her apartment |
| 0:39.3 | to Palaver. And then we also brought Stephanie on to talk with Ezra towards the end of the |
| 0:45.3 | episode to talk about riding, bikes and bike touring and bike packing. And we even talk about |
| 0:51.3 | road racing and crit racing and all kinds of stuff with type 1 diabetes. |
| 0:56.9 | Ezra was actually on Team Nova Nordisk, which is a pro road cycling team where all of the athletes have type 1 diabetes. |
| 1:08.4 | So it was a great opportunity to talk diabetes, give some tips to anyone who has type 1 diabetes so it was a great opportunity to talk diabetes give some tips to anyone who |
| 1:13.5 | has type 1 diabetes and wants to get outside on their bikes get outdoors let's not have this be a |
| 1:19.8 | barrier so we had both of them share their thoughts and some tips and tricks and their experiences |
| 1:26.1 | with riding with type 1 diabetes, |
| 1:29.5 | which was really great, and I hope that a lot of people find value in that segment of the |
| 1:35.1 | podcast. Going back to the bike tour, one neat thing is that they're currently at the end |
| 1:41.8 | of their ride. I believe they're in Florida, and their last |
| 1:46.5 | day will be the day that this episode comes out, which is Wednesday, I believe. I just texted |
| 1:52.3 | Ezra. I haven't heard back. He's probably busy riding his bike, but I'm pretty sure that |
| 1:58.6 | they're going to be riding their bikes still when this comes out. |
| 2:02.4 | So just wanted to give those guys a shout out, wish them. Happy roads. I've been following along |
| 2:09.1 | their journey on Instagram. And after we met, Ben started to have some knee pains, but I know that |
| 2:16.5 | they've pushed through and I know that they're making good time. |
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