Ep. 213 ~ Maddy Nutt, Traka 560 FKT
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Maddy Nutt just made her mark on ultra-cycling in her very first attempt at this year's Traka 560.
She is no stranger to big efforts on the bike — or The Traka itself. Over the previous three years she competed in the 360km event, notably finishing 7th last year despite tearing her AC ligament only 100km into the race. She's also raced some of the biggest gravel events in the world including Unbound Gravel, Migration Gravel Race, and The Rift (among others).
Coming into this year's Traka, Maddy believed the previous women's record of 28h 52m was within reach, but respected the field enough to know that anything could happen.
She wasn't listed as one of the favorites, she shares in today's episode, and maybe that helped take some of the pressure off.
In the midst of the many conversations surrounding this year's Traka, Maddy's story stood out as something worth celebrating. Her ride was thoughtful, calculated, and deeply intentional. She visited Girona multiple times to prepare, pre-rode sections of the course, and even used Google Street View to scout water fountains and resupply locations. She left no stone unturned in her preparation.
At the Traka 560, Maddy rode through the night for the first time. She rode farther than she ever had before. And in doing so, she rode herself not only into victory, but into an entirely new realm of possibility.
She can now officially add "ultra-cyclist" to her already impressive list of accomplishments.
Congrats Maddy…welcome to the club. Can't wait to see what comes next.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast presented by Old Man Mountain. |
| 0:05.2 | As always, my name is Patrick, and I am your host. |
| 0:08.1 | And on today's episode, I'm excited to bring you a chat with Maddie Nut. |
| 0:12.5 | And if your Instagram feed is anything like mine, Maddie has been all over social media. |
| 0:19.2 | She's been all over cycling news, and that is because of |
| 0:22.5 | her historic win at the track of 560 that just took place about five days ago. Notably, this was |
| 0:30.4 | Maddie's first ever ultra cycling race, and she beat the previous record by two hours and 20 |
| 0:37.0 | minutes in a very stacked field on a |
| 0:39.9 | hard course. And I am really excited that she was down to take a little bit of time to chat with |
| 0:47.2 | me today. As Maddie might say, I'm not going to faf about very much. We're going to get right |
| 0:52.0 | into today's episode. I'm heading out of town |
| 0:54.7 | tomorrow and I really want to get this one out. So we're going to make it snappy. But before we |
| 0:59.0 | get into it, let's take a moment to thank the people that made today's episode possible, |
| 1:03.5 | starting with our latest batch of patrons, of which we have none. So if you would like to support |
| 1:10.1 | this work and this podcast, a great way to do that |
| 1:12.9 | is over at patreon.com forward slash bikes or death. And thanks to our presented by sponsor Oldman |
| 1:20.8 | Mountain, today's episode comes to you ad free. But next time you're looking to turn your bike into an adventure bike, a |
| 1:29.4 | backpacking bike or a touring bike, make sure to head over to oldmanmountain.com, show them some |
| 1:34.8 | love as a way to thank them for supporting this podcast. All right, well, that is it. Let us get |
| 1:40.9 | into today's episode with the one, only mattie nut but first a quick note |
| 1:46.5 | you're going to hear that at the very beginning of today's episode i actually forgot to hit |
| 1:51.2 | record fortunately we only missed like the first two minutes so i start off a little bit clunky |
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