I actually ran out of water. I didn't resupply at Wamsutter the way I should have because I thought I was only going to Rollins.

And I was probably without water for six hours. It was very dry. I was in New Mexico. I ended up consulting my maps and I found where there's supposed to be a little stream when it's wet in the winter.

And I found a big culvert pipe that had some water and I ended up filtering some highly questionable water.

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Episode 193.

Jim Goodyear is here to talk about the 2,700-mile endurance race, the Tour Divide. This episode of the adventure sports podcast is sponsored by biotropic labs.com, custom formulators in sports performance supplements for active people like you.

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The Tor Divide is over 2,700 miles of self-supported time trial endurance riding along the Great Divide Mountain Bike route stretching between Banff, Alberta, Canada, and the U.S. Mexico border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico. The route was created in 1997 by the Adventure Cycling Association.

For 19 years now, bikepackers have been tackling this route with top riders finishing in just

over two weeks, while others don't make it at all. Jim Goodyear is on the show with us today to fill us in on the experience and the mental test that the tour divide provides. Jim, thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me, Travis. Happy to be here. Yeah, I'm happy to have you. So, you know, I recently learned about the tour divide and I've become really intrigued with this ride.

I didn't realize it existed.

This is a self-supported ride in the sense that you absolutely can't have any help from anybody, not even people shipping stuff to you.

I mean, you have to use commercial shippers.

You have to use lodging and, you know, and everything.

You can't have a van pull up and basically allow you to sleep in it.

Anything like that, right?

That's correct.

I mean, this genre of racing is fairly new.

It's self-supported racing.

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