Ep. 215: Trans America Bike Race - Felix Wong
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Trans America Bike Race is a 4200 mile, 3+ week, self-supported bike race starting in Astoria, OR and ending in Yorktown, VA. Felix Wong from Fort Collins, CO competed in the Trans Am in 2015 and finished 8th overall and was the 3rd American. Listen in to find out all about this amazing race!
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| 0:00.0 | That stretch I did 310 miles. Of my top mileage days, I think I had a day where I did over 270 miles. There were a couple of days I did over 260. The first day I did 250. And actually, I was averaging 206 miles for the first two weeks, which I was pretty pleased with. |
| 0:22.9 | My goal for the entire race was to do at least a double century a day. |
| 0:29.3 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:33.7 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:37.1 | Episode 215, the 4200-mile Trans-American Bike Race with Felix Wong. |
| 0:51.1 | Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Travis. |
| 0:57.7 | So today with me is Felix Wong. |
| 1:05.6 | Felix is a cyclist, a rock climber, a mountaineer, an ultra runner, a triathlete, just to mention a few of his adventurous hobbies. |
| 1:29.9 | He's up in Fort Collins, so he's up, what do you say, Felix, 20 miles north of me, something like that? I'm about maybe 40, 45 miles north of Boulder. Is it that far north? Geez, I was thinking about 40 minutes, so, okay, anyway, Felix is up north of me in Colorado. Uh, he moved to Fort Collins from California, from Silicon Valley, and he's just really been into an adventurous lifestyle. |
| 1:33.6 | If you go to his site, it's Felix Wong.com. |
| 1:36.2 | And you can see all of his writings. |
| 1:40.9 | He keeps a great blog post about everything he's done in the world of adventure and something to read up and to follow on. |
| 1:44.8 | So today, Felix is going to be talking about the trans-American bike race. |
| 1:49.4 | This is a 4,200-mile race across the country of the United States. |
| 1:54.5 | And if I can get him to talk about it a little bit, we're going to talk about the Tour Divide, |
| 1:58.4 | which is a 2,700-mile race from Canada to Mexico. |
| 2:01.7 | So enough with the intros, Felix. Welcome to the show. |
| 2:05.5 | Well, thanks, Travis. Thanks for having me on the show. It's always a pleasure to share my |
| 2:09.6 | passion of cycling and inventor with the world. |
| 2:13.8 | Well, let's do it then. So today we're going to be talking about bicycle riding and racing. So give me a little bit of a background on you. How did you end up getting into competitive cycling? |
| 2:26.0 | Well, I was exposed to bikes at a pretty young age. When I was five years old, my mom and dad bought me a little BMX bike, and I remember at that age I would be |
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