Ep. 606: Racing the Tour Divide in Your 60's - Marty Johnson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
When Marty's 60th birthday came rolling around, he knew he needed to do something adventurous that took him out of his normal routine and into an entirely different frame of mind. From that longing came the idea to race in the Tour Divide, a 2,750-mile, mostly off-road, mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide.
Now, at the age of 65, Marty is gearing up this June for another TD attempt. His 6th time on the trail.
Our most adventurous years don't have to be the earliest. In fact, they can be the most recent. I hope Marty's story helps you see your own adventure in 2020.
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| 0:12.2 | And right, and it's light there. There's an area light. So I'm laying down, |
| 0:15.9 | I have my bear spray out. And we had been told that that's kind of like grizzly out, because it's close to Yellowstone. |
| 0:22.3 | And so I'm laying down there asleep and I feel something like walking across my legs. |
| 0:32.1 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the |
| 0:37.4 | planet. |
| 0:37.9 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:42.2 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:59.7 | I love talking about the tour divide. |
| 1:05.0 | In fact, we haven't talked about it in a while, but we will be talking about it in today's episode. |
| 1:14.5 | And if you don't know what that is, it's just this awesome underground race. It's getting more popular. It's been around a little while now, but it's from Banff, Banff, which is B-A-N-F-F, Alberta, Canada. And look that up. If you |
| 1:22.6 | don't know what it is, it's got to be one of the prettiest mountain towns in the world. So it starts there, and it goes along the Great Divide Mountain Bike route, but it's as close to the |
| 1:34.1 | Continental Divide Trail as you can be, but for bicycles. |
| 1:36.8 | So it's pretty much like the Continental Divide Trail, but for bikes. |
| 1:40.1 | The race is from the beginning, which is in Banff, all the way to the Mexican border, |
| 1:44.8 | 2,750 miles. And the winners doing this whole trail in 13 to 14 days, I took quite a bit |
| 1:54.3 | longer, but it was still very difficult for the pace I did it. It's not, you know, the craziest thing out there. |
| 2:01.6 | It's pretty crazy. But it's one of those adventures that's to me just really stands out. |
| 2:06.7 | One, because, you know, I've done it. Two, it just always did even before I had done it, |
| 2:11.3 | just something that I always wanted to do. And Marty here didn't do his first one until he was |
| 2:17.1 | 60 years old. How impressive is that to be 60 and say, |
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