Ep. 694: Leaving Road to Go Gravel - Pro Cyclist, Pete Stetina
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Gravel Cycling: Follow one road cycling pro's inspiring journey from a life-altering injury to finding a new home in the rugged and community-driven world of gravel racing.
After years of being in the biggest road cycling races in the world a devastating and life-altering injury left Pete’s career path felt shaken up and in need of more stability.
Growing up in Colorado and now residing in the Tahoe area, the outdoors were the places he felt at home and at peace. That’s when Pete started to explore the idea of leaving the world of road cycling for the up-and-coming gravel scene. It was a place that accepted newcomers, valued community and good beer, but also gave the edge to not just the fastest riders, but the toughest.
An unlikely full recovery is what even made this dream of going gravel possible. In today’s episode, we’re hearing a story of endurance, optimism, and the power of betting on yourself.
To find out more about Pete:
Instagram: @pstetina
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| 0:00.0 | not of like, this isn't like a retirement tour, whereas, you know, other people who have kind of started dabbling and gravel were kind of like, you know, winding it down, just kind of being a promotional face and, you know, going on a fun tour. And My name's Mason, I host this show. |
| 0:39.8 | And you might notice we weren't doing Thursday episodes for a couple weeks. And that was because we were going to just try out |
| 0:44.8 | doing one episode a week. And yeah, the consensus was y'all really like Thursday episodes. So we're |
| 0:51.2 | going to start them back up with the new year. So this is the first Thursday |
| 0:55.0 | of the year, of course, and we're going to be picking it back up. And these are, you know, |
| 0:58.5 | replay, you know, revisited episodes from the past as well as, you know, some bonus episodes. |
| 1:04.6 | And today's episode is actually an interview from the other show I host called Without Compromise, |
| 1:09.5 | where we talk to people in the community |
| 1:12.0 | of my day job, which is athletic brewing. There's a lot of crossover there with Adventure |
| 1:17.0 | Sports Podcast, so that explains that. And today we're talking to Pete Stetna. He's a former |
| 1:22.4 | pro-road cyclist, you know, raced in events like the Tour to France, the world tour all those events |
| 1:28.8 | that are much more popular in Europe, but he was on an American team, did really well. |
| 1:36.5 | You know, you might recognize his name. He was a very famous cyclist, but he made this |
| 1:43.0 | really unprecedented move last year, which was to leave |
| 1:48.1 | road racing and go into gravel racing, which is pretty crazy in the world of cycling because |
| 1:55.4 | gravel is kind of unproven. It's a lot more, as you'll hear from his story, a lot more fun, a lot less, you know, |
| 2:03.6 | it seems like it's a lot less serious on the outside, but as Pete will tell you, that's not true when you're racing. |
| 2:10.6 | But there is, you know, just more fun. People are having more fun, is what Pete's saying. |
| 2:16.6 | So really cool idea. |
| 2:19.4 | Definitely stepping out on a limb, but unfortunately his first year, gravel racing was |
| 2:24.0 | 2020 and we all know it happened to events. So he is still yet to really get out there and do stuff. |
| 2:29.3 | But he's making a name for himself in the gravel world and it's been pretty cool to watch and we at athletic |
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