Ep. 150 ~ Hannah Simon, Triple Crown, Part 1
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In less than 2 years Hannah has established herself as a real contender in endurance bike racing. Somewhere along the way she decided it was time to take it to the next level, or maybe the next next next level! This year she will be taking on the biggest challenge that Bikepacking has to offer, The Triple Crown.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick, and I'm your |
| 0:05.0 | host. And this week, all eyes in the bikepacking world turn to the Tour Divide. That's right. |
| 0:13.8 | It's Tour Divide week and excitement is in the air. Can you feel it? You know, I was thinking that the tortivide, at least to me, |
| 0:24.3 | feels very much like our Christmas. The anticipation grows as it gets closer and closer. |
| 0:32.0 | We checked the wait list to see who's coming. And this year's Tort Divide roster is chock full of names that I am |
| 0:41.6 | personally following. I cannot wait for this year. I just have a feeling it's going to be a big, |
| 0:46.8 | big year for the Tour Divide. I could be wrong, but I feel good about it. So we'll see what |
| 0:51.6 | happens. And while the eyes of the bikepacking world |
| 0:55.9 | turned to the tour divide, the attention of Bikes for Death is turning its microphone to one |
| 1:02.2 | dot in particular. Hannah Simon, who has been a guest on this podcast on two separate occasions. |
| 1:10.9 | She was on for episode 93, and on that episode, she shared the microphone with Alicia, |
| 1:18.0 | who also shared first place for them in the first iteration of the East Texas Showdown. |
| 1:25.4 | And the next episode she was on was episode 145 when we did an East Texas Showdown. And the next episode she was on was episode 145 when we did an East Texas Showdown recap |
| 1:32.2 | from this past year's race. |
| 1:34.6 | So Hannah cut her teeth in bikepacking and bikepack racing at the first ever East Texas |
| 1:41.0 | Showdown. |
| 1:42.2 | And less than two years later, she is on her way currently to the |
| 1:46.9 | start line of the tour divide to take on the 2,750 miles of the tour divide from Banff Canada |
| 1:55.3 | all the way down to Antelope Wells, New Mexico for the first time, which is amazing to think about in and of itself. |
| 2:05.1 | But wait, there's more. |
| 2:07.5 | Hannah has committed to attempting the triple crown of bike packing, which if you don't know, |
| 2:15.4 | is the Tortoide, followed by the Colorado Trail, |
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