Ep. 85 - Chris and Marni Plesko, "The Parent Trap"

Bikes or Death

Patrick Farnsworth

Sports, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Marni Plesko, aka The Parent Trap, just became the first couple to complete the Colorado Trail Race on a Tandem. And I had a lot of questions. How is there relationship doing? How did they train while working and being parents of two boys? Who's idea was it and how did it go? We talked about the bike and their attention to detail with the build, and about their transition back to the real world after 10 days on the CT.

My partner Sarah and I just purchased our first tandem, which will be introduced to the world soon, and so I've had an increased interest in all things tandem. Which is how I found Chris on instagram. It just so happens he and his wife Marni were preparing to tackle the CTR on their tandem. During the race, I was glued to their dot, I would try to image what they were going through, and I couldn't to chat after their record setting race!

While researching this podcast I learned that Chris holds the current Single Speed Record on the Tour Divide. He set the record in 2009 and then he broke his record again in 2016 while chasing Mike Hall on his record setting run. His record still stands, so I took this opportunity to dig into his personal history. I equally enjoyed Marni's introduction to bikepacking and ultra endurance cycling, first as an observer and supporter of Chris, and then as his tandem partner in crime.

I walked away from this conversation with a smile on my face, my heart, and wishing we lived closer so we could trade babysitting and go on tandem rides. I hope you take away something from this conversation as well. I sure did!

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0:00.0	Howdy, howdy. It is time to get rowdy. Welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick. I am your humble host and podcasting servant. Here again, another week. Thanks to all of you beautiful people. Let's start off by thanking this week's newest patrons who have signed up since last week's episode. We only have three this
0:23.1	week, so if you typically skip this part, I bet you can make it to the end. So let's give a huge
0:28.9	shout out to Ian Truesdale, Amir Hill, Nicholas Erdos Thayer. And that's it.
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1:39.5	your favorite bike packing podcast. All right, well, today's show is also brought to us by
1:45.9	ren sports a couple episodes ago we had cameron sanders on from ren as a guest on the
1:52.9	podcast that was episode number 83 and i got several messages from people that thought that it was
1:59.0	the best episode yet, which I was very
2:01.8	happy to hear because I was sick during that episode and kind of felt like I didn't do a good
2:06.9	job, but luckily Cameron came through and definitely delivered. But today he's here to talk to us
2:12.8	about their inverted suspension technology that they have at Wren. So Cameron, welcome back to the show.
2:20.3	And I wanted to have you tell us about your inverted suspension technology, as I know that
2:26.7	this is something that y'all specialize in. Yeah. Thanks for having me on again. So inverted suspension,
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