Ep. 47 - James Mark Hayden
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
James Mark Hayden came on the ultra endurance bike racing scene in 2015. Since then he's been putting down some incredible performances, winning the Transcontinental Race twice, shared 1st place at the Italy divide, getting 4th at Silk Road even though he was robbed by men on horses during the race, and most recently he finished 2nd at Atlas Mountain Race to Sofiane who came in only 4 hours earlier.
All of this he accomplished while finishing up his degree at university. Guess what? School is over, no more distractions, and James is on a mission to be a professional ultra endurance bike racer. What does that look like? We talk about it on the show.
When racing starts again James is going to be one of the guys to watch. Check out his instagram @jamesmarkhayden where he post tons of great knowledge about his training and related topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I'm still your |
| 0:06.4 | host. I've been hiding for a little while. My apologies. Actually, while I'm on it, I would like to |
| 0:13.0 | apologize. Some of you know and many of you probably don't, but it's gone on long enough to where |
| 0:20.4 | I feel like I can no longer not talk about it. |
| 0:23.7 | I am going through a divorce and with COVID and going through that and having kids home all the time, |
| 0:31.6 | the podcast has taken a back seat. |
| 0:34.4 | So I apologize to all the listeners, all the people who support the show through |
| 0:37.7 | Patreon. I am not going anywhere, but I am dealing with some stuff that just requires time. |
| 0:46.3 | So I think everybody understands this is a crazy time. Now throw a divorce on top. Merry Christmas. |
| 0:53.3 | So I don't want to make it a humorous situation, |
| 0:57.8 | but I would like to say that I am really okay. I'm happy. I'm very much at peace, and this is |
| 1:06.3 | just one of those bumps in life. I look at a lot of things like through riding bikes and bike packing. |
| 1:13.6 | I feel like sometimes you're climbing the mountain and sometimes you're on a three-hour descent, |
| 1:20.3 | three hours a lot, let's say a 30-minute descent, town the mountain. You're always on the |
| 1:24.5 | mountain. It's just sometimes it's harder than others. So I'm just |
| 1:28.1 | climbing a mountain right now, but I know it's okay because I'll hit that downhill and be grinning |
| 1:33.6 | ear to ear before you know it. Okay, sorry about that, but I feel like it needed to be said. |
| 1:40.1 | Today's episode is actually one of my favorites. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't like to play favorites with my episodes, |
| 1:49.0 | but I was just really happy with how well it all went together. |
| 1:54.0 | I listened to the whole thing through. |
| 1:57.0 | It just was a great flowing conversation. |
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