Ep. 53 - Sofiane Sehili
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
At this point Sofiane Sehili needs no introduction. Three days ago Sofiane finished the French Divide in 1st place and with a New Course Record to boot. After his impressive 1st place at the Atlas Mtn Race earlier this year he was looking forward to a busy and successful race year, but then Covid happened. When some restrictions were lifted he wasted no time signing up. In June he raced the Hope 1,000 and took 2nd, the following month he lined up at the Three Peaks Race and was able to take 2nd again. He went into the French Divide 10 days after coming off Three Peaks. In case you aren't counting, that's THREE ultra events in the same number of months. The fact the he even completed all three events is impressive enough alone. When you take into account his results, it is truly a remarkable achievement. I think it's worth noting that he is also just a damn nice guy who (as you will hear) isn't shy to bring attention to his competitors and highlight their achievements as well. Class act all the way around and I'm so stoked he's on team bike.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes or Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I'm your host. |
| 0:05.5 | And today, I'd like to start off by thanking my newest patrons. We got Ryan E, Bruce H, Rich O, and |
| 0:14.3 | Paul A, all new to Patreon since the last episode. Thank you guys so much for stepping up and helping to support the Bikes |
| 0:23.4 | or Death podcast. It is very much appreciated. And if you're interested in supporting the show, |
| 0:28.0 | you can head over to bikesordeath.com. And there's all kinds of ways to get on board and help me |
| 0:33.2 | to keep on pumping out awesome content for your earbuds. |
| 0:40.1 | All right, everybody, I'm going to be real brief today. |
| 0:45.1 | First off, my guest is Sofion, who really needs no introduction. |
| 0:51.0 | He started off this year with a bang at Atlas Mountain Race by taking first. |
| 0:56.1 | Then COVID hit, and he wasn't able to ride his bike for quite a bit of time, |
| 1:01.6 | no training, just completely off. Finally, some of the restrictions were lifted, and racing was able to take place in certain parts of the world, and he didn't hesitate to hop on that train. |
| 1:08.3 | So he hit the Hope 1000 in June. |
| 1:11.4 | Then he did the three peaks in July, |
| 1:14.1 | and he was fresh off the French divide |
| 1:16.6 | that he just completed, what, two, three days ago? |
| 1:20.3 | He has been on an absolute tear. |
| 1:22.4 | He is so much fun to talk to. |
| 1:24.5 | And what can I say about Sofion? |
| 1:26.6 | He is one of the most charismatic, hard on his sleeve, |
| 1:30.3 | badass human beings that is on the planet as far as I'm concerned. The guy is seemingly almost |
| 1:37.3 | unstoppable inhuman. It doesn't make sense. And I'm so stoked that I got a chance to talk to him. |
| 1:45.4 | And yeah, like I said, |
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