Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I am your host.

And on this episode, I got an opportunity to talk to Scotty and Ernie La Chuga. But before we get to that show, I kind of need to set the stage for this episode a little bit.

Hopefully you listen to the last episode and all of this will make a little bit

more sense. But if you didn't, here's a quick recap. Fayetteville is going to be hosting the

start and finish line of the Arkansas High Country Race. And they hired me to promote and cover

the race this year. And part of that was that they invited me up to come and ride a part of the route.

So we started there in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

And that's what we talked about on the last episode.

So you might want to go check that one out.

But on the way there, Brandon Pack, who works there at Fayetteville, he said, hey, you should swing

by and talk to Scotty and Ernie Lachuga.

They're there in Little Rock and they have the FKT or the fastest known time for the Arkansas

High Country Race that they set as a couple. So he's like, yeah, you know,

you should go talk to them on the way and get a feel for what you're in for and,

and just, you know, chat with them about the route and stuff. That's how I went into this

episode. I didn't do any research on them. I should have. I was just busy getting,

you know, work and family and all that stuff situated before I went on a trip as one does.

And I kind of just went into this episode blind and was really blindsided by their story.

I'm not going to, you know, get in the whole

thing right now, but they have an amazing story. They're both ex-pro racers turned bikepackers,

and it's, I was just floored. I had so many questions. I had no idea what I was walking into,

but, you know, on some level,

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