Ep. 1153: Epic Mountain Biking with Alenka Vrecek Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Alenka Vrecek's 2500-Mile Solo Mountain Bike Journey from Lake Tahoe to Baja Peninsula for Healing and Resilience. At fifty-four, Alenka was running out of time to follow through on a dream she’d written down just after her first marriage crumbled. Years later, as she slowly rebuilt her life with her second husband, things started spiraling out of control with their health. The only way she knew how to heal and connect all painful parts of her life was by riding her bike, and she didn’t want to have regrets. But was she brave enough to embark on an unknown path and risk losing everything . . . perhaps even her own life?
Determined to awaken her dying spirit and heal her battered body, Alenka loaded her mountain bike with 50 pounds’ worth of camping gear and set off on a 2,500-mile journey. Starting in Lake Tahoe, California, she hoped to ride to the tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, following remote mountain trails, alone.
What followed was an irrevocably transformational journey of love, hope, courage, and resilience—and here, Alenka tells that story in a voice stripped of self-pity and infused with a good dose of humor. Her book, She Rides, is a galvanizing wake-up call for anyone who wants to unearth and follow their own deeply buried dreams—and reclaim their life.
Learn more about Alenka and her book, She Rides, below:
Instagram: @mother_len
Twitter: @AlenkaVrecek
Facebook: @alenka.vrecek
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | We talk with adventures from around the globe to give you the inspiration you need to get started in the outdoors or keep moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.3 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey friends, Kurt here. Thank you so much for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast today. |
| 0:25.5 | Happy Friday, by the way, episode 1153. This is on mountain biking. It's a revisited episode, |
| 0:33.4 | Mason interviewing Alink of Rechick. And it's super cool. She mountain biked from Tahoe down to Baja, and I think you're going to enjoy this. |
| 0:43.3 | I love mountain biking. |
| 0:44.4 | It's one of my favorite adventure sports. |
| 0:46.3 | Hopefully you do too, and I hope your weekend is fantastic. |
| 0:51.1 | My son and I were talking about the adventure sports podcast yesterday, and we realized something that, I mean, obvious, it's obvious, but it just kind of brought it to the forefront of my mind. |
| 1:03.3 | We are a very unique group of people, actually. |
| 1:07.4 | If you look at people around the world these days, how many people are focused enough on connecting |
| 1:12.1 | with nature, getting out and moving, doing adventure sports, that they're actually out there |
| 1:17.1 | doing it? |
| 1:18.5 | And you are. |
| 1:19.5 | You care enough about your health and connecting with nature and having fun that you are listening |
| 1:24.3 | to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 1:26.4 | That makes you unique. |
| 1:28.8 | And I'm very thankful for you. |
| 1:30.3 | I think it's super cool. |
| 1:34.1 | If you lived where I lived, I'm sure we would be friends. |
| 1:39.3 | But before I start rambling, I'm just going to go right on to the episode. |
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