Ep. 1064: Silk Road Mountain Race - Alden Roth
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Bikepacking: Alden Roth on Completing the Brutal Silk Road Mountain Race in Kyrgyzstan – 1,200 Miles, 100,000ft Elevation, Surviving a Crash on Day 14 to Finish as the 100th Rider Out of 101 in the World's Toughest Unsupported Bike Race.
In August of 2024, Alden raced in the Silk Road Mountain Race, a 1,200-mile, unsupported bikepacking race in Kyrgyzstan. With nearly 100,000ft of elevation gain, it's often touted as the toughest bike race in the world. A crash on Alden's 14th day of racing put him out of the general classification, but he was able to fix his bike and complete the ride, earning himself a finisher's stamp as the 100th rider to finish out of 101 finishers.
Alden Roth is a filmmaker, ultrarunner, and endurance bikepacker from West Virginia. He's the newest member of the Parks and Recreation Board in Charles Town, WV, his hometown and is also a co-owner of Rocketfuel Studios, a video production company that tells stories about food and the outdoors. Alden has completed several ultramarathons, including a sub-24-hour finish at Rim to River 100 and several multi-day bike tours and races.
All of Alden’s links:
- Video Production Company, Rocketfuel Studios - https://www.rocketfuelstudios.com/
- Film Festival, Filmed By Bike - https://filmedbybike.org/
- would love to encourage people to submit to Filmed by Bike, if that's okay with you - https://filmfreeway.com/FilmedbyBikeFilmFestival
- Instagram: @aldenroth2 - https://www.instagram.com/aldenroth2/
- Ascend WV - https://ascendwv.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today, we're doing a new episode. It is a little late this week, but there's a reason if you didn't know this past weekend I was helping commentate at the |
| 0:23.3 | last paddler standing. |
| 0:25.5 | It's a race that happens in Sarasota, Florida every year that's put on by alumni of the |
| 0:30.4 | podcast and the race director of the Alabama 650, which was for a long time or a couple |
| 0:36.6 | years the longest annual paddle race in the world, |
| 0:39.6 | 650 miles. |
| 0:41.3 | The race director for both of those events is Greg Wingo, and Greg has been on the podcast |
| 0:45.9 | to talk about those races before, and I've been helping with commentary. |
| 0:50.3 | We do a live stream for literally two days straight, 24 hours a day for 48 to 50 something |
| 0:57.3 | hours, depending on how long the race goes. And this was the third year. It was awesome. We had way more |
| 1:04.4 | support than ever. There were six commentators, so I didn't have to, you know, stay up for 12 hours |
| 1:08.9 | at a time. and which was, |
| 1:11.1 | we had amazing people. |
| 1:12.5 | And Craig Sawyer was there. |
| 1:13.7 | He helped elevate the experience so much better than it's been before. |
| 1:18.5 | And he is also an alumni of the show. |
| 1:20.9 | We talked to him last year or earlier this year about his Yukon 1000 race, where he literally paddle boarded a thousand miles on the |
| 1:29.9 | Yukon river out in complete wilderness. That was an amazing conversation. Craig's awesome. He has a |
| 1:36.2 | production company. Go check it out. And the live stream can be found on YouTube. Just look up |
| 1:40.3 | Last Paddler Standing. Well, anyway, that's what i was doing all weekend the day after thanksgiving |
| 1:45.0 | by the way i hope you had a good thanksgiving so many incredible people in that race it's not a huge |
| 1:50.2 | race like there's not thousands of people in it it's like 30 people i think it was like 27 this year |
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