Ep. 156 ~ James Collins, Central Texas Showdown ITT
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
This June James Collins became the first person to attempt the new Central Texas Showdown route as an ITT. James is a 3 time veteran of the East Texas Showdown and will be leaving Texas before the CTS group start this October. Not wanting to miss out on this new route in his backyard, he decided to tackle it as an ITT (individual time trial).
This episode is a great introduction to that route and to James, who's been such a large part of the Texas Showdown Series. After you listen to this episode if you want to take a deeper dive, I recommend you check out Jame's Ride Report about his ITT. He goes into great detail and is an excellent resource for anyone looking to ride or race that route!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your host. |
| 0:06.9 | And on today's episode, I am sitting down with James Collins, who was the first person to ride the Central Texas Showdown Route. |
| 0:16.9 | And because the group start isn't until October of this year and James was leaving Texas to continue his education in North Carolina, he decided to tackle the route as an ITT this past June. |
| 0:34.6 | So on today's episode, we're going to be taking a look into James's experience as the first |
| 0:40.5 | person ever to attempt the new Central Texas Showdown route and getting to know James a little |
| 0:46.3 | bit better, who is a three-time veteran of the East Texas Showdown. And so he has a lot of experience |
| 0:54.0 | whenever it comes to my events. And also |
| 0:57.6 | the Central Texas Showdown is basically in his backyard where he grew up. And so he's very |
| 1:03.2 | familiar with this area and a great resource for perspective on, hey, did I pick the right roads? |
| 1:09.4 | And what did you think about the route and all this fun stuff? So that is today's episode. If you find yourself wanting |
| 1:16.7 | a deeper dive into James's experience on his ITT, he wrote a very thorough, detailed, and |
| 1:25.2 | excellent ride report on his ITT. You can find a link to that in the show |
| 1:30.7 | notes, and it's also at Bikes for Death.com under the blog section. So if you're somebody who |
| 1:37.9 | is thinking about maybe taking this route on as a ride, or if you're going to be showing up for |
| 1:43.3 | the group start this October. |
| 1:45.8 | After you listen to this episode, I think that his ride report is an excellent resource as |
| 1:52.5 | well if you would like to take a deeper dive. While we're talking about the Central Texas |
| 1:57.6 | Showdown today, let me take this opportunity to just share some quick details. So the Central Texas Showdown today. Let me take this opportunity to just share some quick details. |
| 2:04.1 | So the Central Texas Showdown is the second race in the Texas Showdown series. |
| 2:10.0 | The first one obviously being East Texas. |
| 2:12.8 | Now we bring the same blueprint and the same model that made East Texas Showdown so successful and |
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