Ep. 35 - A Visit to the High Country, Previewing this year's High Country Race
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Y'all know I love me some Arkansas, so when Brannon Pack called me with an "idea" to give me a guided tour on a part of the High Country Route I started packing my bike bags.
This is the second year for the Arkansaw High Country Race which will start and finishes in Fayetteville, AR for the first time. The race is based on a route that was created by Chuck Campbell in partnership with the Adventure Cycling Association and covers 1,035 miles through the northwestern portion of Arkansas, including the Ouachitas and Ozarks. Last year 20 people registered for the inaugural race, but this year I'd like to see all 50 spots sold out when registration opens! Listen to this episode, get stoked, and set your alarms for 8am CST on Feb. 15th when registration for this years race goes live!
The race kicks of on June 6th and Bikes or Death will be there to cover the event, meet the racers, and ride out with you on the official start. We will also be selecting two participants (male and female) to interview prior to and after the race. If you'd like to through your name in the hat, first register, then send me an email at bikes@bikesordeath.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people of all cycling persuasions, welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | My name is Patrick and I am your host. |
| 0:12.6 | In this episode, we are going to be talking about all things Arkansas bikepacking. |
| 0:18.1 | I am fresh off a trip from doing a little preview ride of the Arkansas High Country |
| 0:24.2 | Race. A Brandon Pack that works for their tourism division, they're in Fayetteville, Arkansas, |
| 0:30.5 | invited me out. And of course, I said, yes. You know I love Arkansas, so that was not a hard decision for me to make. |
| 0:41.5 | Basically, what they've asked me to do is come out, check out the route, check out the town, |
| 0:47.1 | get a feel for it, and put out an episode. Today we're going to be talking with Brandon Pack, |
| 0:53.1 | who's the guy who orchestrated this |
| 0:54.7 | whole thing, and Chuck Campbell, who is the guy who created the Arkansas High Country |
| 1:01.1 | route, which is what the race is based on. And then in June, when the race kicks off, June 6th, |
| 1:07.7 | I'm going to be back in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I'm going to be there at the start |
| 1:11.7 | line and going to be interviewing a couple of the racers prior to, and then after they get done |
| 1:20.2 | with their race, I'm going to follow up with them and do a little bit of before and after action. |
| 1:25.1 | We thought that would be neat. And the other neat thing that we're going to do is those episodes that I record before the event goes off, |
| 1:33.6 | I'm going to release those at the very beginning of the race. |
| 1:37.6 | So listeners can listen to their story, get a feel for them, and then follow their dots as they make their way around |
| 1:44.8 | the state of Arkansas. So we got some cool stuff going on. It was super cool that the city of |
| 1:50.7 | Fayetteville saw some value in what I'm doing over here with my microphone and talking to you |
| 1:55.5 | lovely people about bikes. So this episode, we're going to be talking about the race itself, |
| 2:02.1 | what you can expect. |
| 2:05.9 | And then we're also going to do a trip recap on the trip that we just took. |
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