Episode 104: Lauren De Crescenzo: Professional Gravel Speedster

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Lauren's story of winning Unbound and having one of the most successful years the sport of gravel has ever seen is as impressive as it is improbable. Her comeback from a TBI is a journey through uncharted territory. Over the span of about a half dozen years, she went from being a professional road cyclist to a (very) traumatic brain injury to an intense recovery period to then earning a Masters in Public Health to next pivot to a career as a professional cyclist once again -- see, that's not the standard! But it sure is working for Lauren, so why mess with a good thing?! You'll find Lauren's social at: @laurenissima Don't forget, get your hands on 5 free sample packs, plus a year's supply of vitamin D with this offer from Athletic Greens. Just visit: AthleticGreens.com/tedking

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome to King of the Ride podcast. Ted King here, your host today and presumably always.
0:11.3	Our guest today is Lauren D. Creschenzo. For one, let's step off the bike. She's an epidemiologist.
0:17.6	She wrapped up her master's in public health and then set off to work with the CDC coincidentally right as the pandemic started.
0:23.6	So that's a fascinating detail onto itself.
0:26.5	Anyone familiar with cycling, of course, knows Lauren as the professional cyclist.
0:31.5	Let's call it the MVP.
0:33.4	If such an award existed, of the past two years of gravel riding, chalking up wins at Unbound, Mid-South, SBT, gravel worlds.
0:41.5	Then let's step on to the road, the tarmac, the tour of the Gila, UCI Pro Road Race, and second place at the U.S.
0:48.4	National Championships.
0:50.6	She's a threat to win pretty much every race she enters and announce that she's going to take place in the Lifetime Grand Prix this season from which she did not participate in 2022.
1:01.6	So she's taking this time to fine tune her off-road skills as we will talk about today because her story is one of comeback.
1:08.2	She suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2016. And as anyone familiar with
1:12.6	TBI knows, the path to recovery, so to speak, is nebulous. It's winding. It's maybe without a
1:18.7	formal destination. So all of these reasons and more, I was excited to have this conversation with
1:25.8	Lauren. She's made some fun new changes into the coming year. So with 2023 kicking off, the season about to kick off, I thought it was a great time to catch up with her. I'm looking forward to this conversation today, and I know that you will too.
1:40.2	Folks, if you have listened to this podcast, you of course know that I start every day with a serving of AG1 by athletic greens.
1:46.9	I use it every single day because it simplifies my life in terms of supplements and vitamins.
1:51.3	It gives me the reinsurance that I'm getting the necessary vitamins, minerals, and so forth from a whole food source.
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2:07.1	Right now, it is time to reclaim
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