Hello, friends and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast.

As always, my name is Patrick and I am your host.

And on today's episode, Alish Zavaral is joining me all the way from the Czech Republic.

He just won the third edition of the bike nonstop US race that just took place last month. He finished in 18 days,

11 hours, and 50 minutes. This year there were 12 participants, 9 of them were men, and 3 of them

were women. And I have to be honest, bike nonstop U.S. is a race in America that I had never even heard of

until Amanda tagged me on Instagram and told me I should interview Alish.

And I wanted to interview Alish.

And I also wanted to find out about bike nonstop U.S.

So it turns out that this race is done by the same race organizers that do the

Transamerica race.

A lot of us are going to be familiar with that.

And this route is very similar in that it traverses the United States from west to east. However, it maximizes the use

of rails to trails, gravel roads, B roads, and avoids major highways and major roads at all

costs. Essentially, this is billed as a safer trans America bike race.

And honestly, after this interview and talking to Alice,

I became very interested in doing this ride myself one day.

It sounds absolutely amazing.

And I appreciate Alice coming on the podcast to tell us all about it and his race this year.

But before I get to today's episode, let us take a moment to thank the people that made it possible, starting with our latest patrons.

So this week, we would like to thank Thomas Sobretsky and Michael Young.

Thank you all so much for becoming sustaining members of the podcast.

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