Ep. 170 ~ Sofiane Sehili, "Where Do I Go From Here?"
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
At the end of the year Sofiane made a post on social media that caught my eye. The first line read, "So where do I go from here?". Sofiane is arguably the best ultra bikepack racer in the world. A position that he earned by winning some of the most grueling races in bikepacking, in some cases multiple times. Having accomplished so much, he now finds himself in a unique position and wondering what's next.
Today we dig a little deeper into Sofiane's thoughts about his career, his accomplishments, and what, in fact, is next for him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and happy new year and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | As always, my name is Patrick and I'm your host, and we are starting off the new year |
| 0:10.8 | with a bang with a great conversation with my friend, Sophia on Sahili. |
| 0:16.6 | Sofionn made a Instagram post at the end of last year that really caught my attention. |
| 0:23.1 | And after reading the post, I immediately messaged him and asked him if this was a topic |
| 0:28.2 | that he would be interested in diving into further, to which he immediately agreed. |
| 0:34.0 | And I think for context of today's conversation, instead of sending you to his Instagram to read his post right now, |
| 0:42.1 | so this can be a self-contained episode and hopefully make it a little bit easier on you, |
| 0:47.5 | I'm going to take just a moment to read his post that he made. |
| 0:51.9 | The graphic associated with this post was a list of all of his wins from |
| 0:57.3 | 2019 through 2023. And the caption reads as follows. So where do I go from here? Last year, |
| 1:06.7 | I realized what started as a dream before transforming into an ambition by winning the tour divide. I |
| 1:13.8 | subsequently won my second and third Silk Road Mounted Bike race. Last summer, I dug as deep as I could |
| 1:21.1 | to secure the third one, a race that came as close to perfection as I think possible. I climbed to the pinnacle of off-road |
| 1:29.0 | Ultra, exceeding by far what I originally had set out to achieve. Is it great? Yeah, sure. But who wakes |
| 1:36.8 | up in the morning thinking about their past achievements? No one. People wake up in the morning |
| 1:41.8 | thinking about new challenges. The problem is that there's not many |
| 1:45.2 | challenges left for me in this sport it can't just be about racking up wins it can't be about |
| 1:51.6 | just doing my job there has to be more for me to go out and push my limits this is a time of doubt |
| 1:58.3 | this is a time that i knew would come when i'm done proving to me and to the world that I can be the best. |
| 2:06.2 | Is it great to be a champion? I honestly don't know. It sure is great to become one. There's nothing better than having goals and working hard to achieve them. |
| 2:16.6 | I've always said that the one thing that I love |
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