Ep. 934: Lake Tahoe to Baja by Mountain Bike - Alenka Vrecek
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
At fifty-four, Alenka was running out of time to follow through on a dream she’d written down just after her first marriage crumbled. Years later, as she slowly rebuilt her life with her second husband, things started spiraling out of control with their health. The only way she knew how to heal and connect all painful parts of her life was by riding her bike, and she didn’t want to have regrets. But was she brave enough to embark on an unknown path and risk losing everything . . . perhaps even her own life?
Determined to awaken her dying spirit and heal her battered body, Alenka loaded her mountain bike with 50 pounds’ worth of camping gear and set off on a 2,500-mile journey. Starting in Lake Tahoe, California, she hoped to ride to the tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, following remote mountain trails, alone.
What followed was an irrevocably transformational journey of love, hope, courage, and resilience—and here, Alenka tells that story in a voice stripped of self-pity and infused with a good dose of humor. Here book, She Rides, is a galvanizing wake-up call for anyone who wants to unearth and follow their own deeply buried dreams—and reclaim their life.
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| 0:00.0 | I am constantly blown away by stories of adventure I hear when it when you learn more about the person and about the circumstances that they did the adventure. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm blown away that that people saw an opportunity in their life and just took it. It is not given to you most of the time. |
| 0:41.4 | And for Alenka here, that is certainly not the case. She saw a window of opportunity, a moment in time |
| 0:47.4 | to do something that she had been dreaming about for over 15 years. She did it despite her spouse, |
| 0:53.9 | her husband not wanting her to do it and not |
| 0:56.0 | knowing if she could. |
| 0:57.1 | She went for it. |
| 0:58.3 | And it's not by any means what she does all the time, but it was just this moment, this thing |
| 1:02.9 | came together and she went for it. |
| 1:05.2 | And so I love that because a lot of us think, you know, it's so easy for some of the |
| 1:09.6 | people on this show to make these adventures happens. |
| 1:12.4 | But I've learned from 500 interviews or so that's absolutely not the case. |
| 1:17.7 | I mean, even Barry Grills, who we talked to last week, even he said that he has to consciously make time for adventure and time and nature. |
| 1:27.6 | And in fact, we had a conversation in New York City. |
| 1:31.1 | He spent some time in Central Park that morning just to be around some trees, he said. |
| 1:37.9 | So if it's important enough for someone like Barry Grills to make time for and something they have to be conscious |
| 1:45.2 | about how much more so for all the rest of us. And I love Alenka's story. We're here today to talk |
| 1:50.9 | about her book, which is called She Rides, and about that story of doing that bike trip, which was |
| 1:56.1 | from Lake Tahoe, California, where she lives, all the way down to the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula |
| 2:02.4 | in Mexico, doing this journey alone. |
| 2:05.5 | Scary, her world was crashing down around her, and she's decided an adventure was what she needed. |
| 2:11.1 | And so we're going to talk about that. |
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