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King of the Ride

Episode 12: Billy Starr β€” Founder & Executive Director of Pan-Mass Challenge

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 β€’ 660 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Want to see more people on bikes? Billy Starr has discovered the magic formula, bringing 6,315 into the 39th annual Pan-Mass Challenge! The event has raised just shy of $600 million for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana Farber Institute. Starting this podcast with a little final 2018 Tour de France summary and analysis, Ted and Billy talk shop, the past, present, and future of the entire sport of cycling.

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0:00.0

I told her what I planned to do, and she said, well, that's nice.

0:03.6

What's your goal?

0:05.5

And I said, well, my goal is to bike from Williamstown, the province down and raised money.

0:09.9

And she has attention.

0:11.8

So you think you're better off doing that by yourself?

0:16.4

I thought, Jesus, she's right.

0:18.3

I've got to be an event coordinator.

0:19.9

I've got to get people to do this with me.

0:22.6

Hey, everybody. I am Ted King. I am your host and this is King of the Ride podcast. The month of

0:29.3

July done and dusted. Well, almost. So I'm recording this on the heels of the mass bike

0:36.8

Wachusat Grand Fondo.

0:38.8

That's a benefit for a terrific organization that we touched upon in our previous podcast,

0:43.0

chatting with the one and only Mr. Richard Freeze.

0:46.2

So as a result, I don't actually know who wins this final stage.

0:49.2

The guys are lining up in France as we speak.

0:51.7

They're probably preparing some champagne flutes and getting the

0:55.2

stage underway any minute. Let's take a pre-race analysis. We got Mark DeMar. He has a lot to prove

1:01.2

with the gripele insinuations and subsequent deleted tweets and apologies. Obviously, he won

1:06.4

stage 18. That was coming on the heels of the Andre Greiple insinuation.

1:17.4

It's been since 2003 that a French rider took the win on the champs, so you know he wants to do that.

1:18.6

I'd be a fool, of course, to dismiss Peter.

1:22.1

Peter showed that he is human this final week in the tour.

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