Ep. 45 - The First Timers

Bikes or Death

Patrick Farnsworth

Sports, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This weeks episode features four first time bikepackers and students of Jerod Fosters Adventure Media class at Texas Tech University. Many of you will probably be familiar with this course from past interviews, but for the uninitiated it is a college course that teaches students how to capture more adventurous type media. As an example of the type of media they produce check out a couple of videos that students produced from last years trip to Big Bend Ranch SP: Video 1 | Video 2 (if you're reading this on social media visit bikesordeath.com).

Unfortunately for this years class their BBRSP trip was cancelled 3 days before due to Covid-19. However, they did get to train for, prepare for, and participate in a bikepacking trip to Caprock Canyon SP. So on this episode we talk to four "First Timers" on preparations, fears, experiences, and lessons learned. I'm excited to release this episode because as this sport continues to grow more and more people are being inspired to get out there. Hopefully hearing experiences from other beginners will help to inspire and encourage others that I read to go out and explore the world on a bike.

My guest today are Taylor Plate, Nejahla Hopkins, Colton Rohrbach, and Kolby Donnell. Their experience going into this course ranged from None to Some and their stories range from inspirational to humorous. I've seen first hand the transformation bikepacking can have on someone when they are introduced to it for the first time. I hope this episode will inspires others to go outside and get a little lost on their bike.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes or Death podcast.
0:05.1	My name is Patrick, and I am your host, and it has been three weeks since I released my last
0:12.2	episode with Pepper Cook.
0:13.9	It feels like forever.
0:15.1	I apologize, but we're back.
0:19.0	So let's put the past behind us.
0:21.6	Today on the podcast, I have four students from Jared Foster's Adventure Media class
0:27.3	at Texas Tech University.
0:29.2	And if you've been listening to the podcast, you'll probably have heard about Jared Foster.
0:34.0	I've been on trips with his class before to Big Ben Ranch State Park. I've
0:39.7	interviewed one of his past students, episode number six, with Anna Claire Beasley. Anyway, so there's
0:46.3	a lot of content. So you'll be very familiar with this class. But if you're not familiar with it,
0:51.7	the culmination of this class is a five-day bikepacking trip.
0:56.6	It moves locations, but last year and this year was scheduled to be at Big Ben Ranch State Park.
1:03.7	This year, due to the COVID-19, these students were cut short.
1:10.7	And so Jared had to get creative, as a lot of professors had to do,
1:14.6	and find ways for his students to be able to fulfill their class objective and get a grade.
1:21.6	So he gave me a shout and pitched me with this idea to have my podcast in this episode be a part of these students' grades.
1:33.3	So he has other students that did other things, but for these four students, this podcast is actually a school assignment.
1:42.3	Now, it's not as cool as going bikepacking in Big Bend,
1:45.9	and I'm really bummed for these students, having got to participate in that course with the
1:52.8	students last year. I know how special that is. I know that they all worked very hard and prepared
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