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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 702: The Trans America Bike Race - Revisited - Felix Wong

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Originally aired Nov 3, 2016


The Trans America Bike Race is a 4200 mile, 3+ week, self-supported bike race starting in Astoria, OR and ending in Yorktown, VA. Felix Wong from Fort Collins, CO competed in the Trans Am in 2015 and finished 8th overall and was the 3rd American. Listen in to find out all about this amazing race!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Of my top mileage days, I think I had a day where I did over 270 miles.

0:06.7

There were a couple of days I did over 260.

0:10.4

The first day I did 250.

0:12.6

And actually, I was averaging 206 miles for the first two weeks, which I was pretty pleased

0:18.9

with.

0:19.2

My goal for the entire race was to do at least a

0:22.7

double century a day.

0:45.0

Hey, folks. Welcome. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely.

0:47.1

Man, this one goes way back.

0:52.8

2016 is when this episode came out, and Travis was hosting at the time, Travis and Kurt,

0:54.5

but Travis did this one. And it's with Felix Wong, who did the Trans-Am bike race or, you know, Trans-America bike race.

1:01.0

It's known as the Trans-Am now.

1:03.4

But it's essentially a, you know, huge bike race across America, self-supported.

1:09.2

It's pretty intense.

1:10.6

And as you can hear in the intro,

1:12.4

there's some very serious miles to the people who are really trying to compete, you know,

1:17.9

upwards of 200 miles a day or more. And so Felix is here to talk about that. I don't have any

1:23.9

updates or anything. Thanks for everyone who has left a review, who has supported us on Patreon, and who has reached out in the podcast.

1:31.1

It's been really cool.

1:32.2

I don't have anything else on my end, but I just hope this inspires you.

1:36.2

It gets you out there.

1:37.6

And you do something like this one day where you can be on the show.

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