Ep. 166 ~ Alex Schultz, Arizona Trail Race Winner & New FKT
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is the winner of this years Arizona Trail Race 800, Alex Schultz. Alex is no stranger to bikepack racing or the AZT. In 2019 he entered his first bikepacking race, the Colorado Trail Race, and was hooked! In 2022 he entered the AZT 300 and won it. This year he came back to take on the 800 with only the goal to finish and do his best. It turns out his best was good enough to win and set a new FKT (Fastest Known Time). His time of 9d 5h 43m was five hours faster than the previous FKT set by Nate Ginzton in 2022.
By the sound of it Alex is just getting started with his bikepack racing career. With a lot of adventure sports experience and some good results under his belt, I have a feeling we'll be seeing his name at the top of other big races soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your host. |
| 0:07.4 | And on today's episode, I'm talking with Alex Schultz, who is the winner and new FKT holder |
| 0:14.6 | of the Arizona Trail Race 800 that he just completed about five days ago. |
| 0:23.9 | Alex set a new record time of nine days, |
| 0:30.3 | five hours, and 43 minutes, which was good enough to beat the fastest known time that was set in 2022 by Nate Gintz. Now, the route has changed a little bit from 2022, and we are going to talk about that in today's episode. Now, the route has changed a little bit from 2022, and we are going to talk about that in today's |
| 0:40.1 | episode. Now, Alex is no stranger to the AZT. In fact, he won the 300-mile version of this race |
| 0:47.7 | last year, and prior to that, his first ever bikepacking event was the Colorado Trail race in 2019. So Alex has been a member |
| 0:58.0 | of our community for a little while now. He's entered some big races and had some really big |
| 1:03.8 | results and it was awesome to talk to him today on the podcast. I just want to say congratulations |
| 1:09.6 | to everybody who finished on the AZT this year. |
| 1:13.5 | It was really fun to watch, really entertaining, but there were a lot of storylines that were |
| 1:17.7 | taking place. A lot of people finished their Triple Crown attempts this year and were |
| 1:23.1 | successful. And so just want to say congratulations to everybody on an incredible year of bike pack racing. It's been fun to watch and hopefully we'll be able to tell some more of the AZT stories before the year is out. Now, you're going to hear me mention it in today's episode, but I am going to be doing an ITT of the AZT 300 |
| 1:45.7 | next year and at the same time Brett Stepanick is going to be doing an ITT of the 800 |
| 1:51.6 | mile version of this race ah and guess what we're going to be inviting some friends i.e you |
| 1:58.4 | so if you're interested in taking on the AZT and you would like to join |
| 2:02.7 | Brett and I next year, I'm going to be releasing information about that after today's episode. |
| 2:08.4 | So stay tuned for that. Now it is time to thank the people that made today's episode possible |
| 2:14.6 | starting with our latest batch of patrons. Unfortunately, we didn't have any new |
| 2:19.3 | patrons this week. So I'd like to thank the 316 patrons that we do have that support our |
| 2:25.4 | little independent podcast. We appreciate every single one of you. And if you enjoy these episodes |
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