Episode 139: Sam Boardman -- Professional Cyclist & The Rookie Report-er

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Smack in the middle of finding success (and the yellow jersey!) at the Green Mountain Stage Race, I wanted to sit down and talk with Sam Boardman about all things contemporary professional cycling. From his days at UCLA through the wild times at Wildlife Generation and Legion, right up through the present in his impressive European debut with Project Echelon, Sam has stories to tell! And if you can't get enough here, then be sure to read what he's written at The Escape Collective in his Rookie Report. Check out the King Challenge and please please join us if you're available October 12: KingChallenge.org. Help out my fundraising for the ride here: https://www.pledgereg.com/5124/tedking And get your hands on that jumpstart to the day you're looking for with drinkAG1.com/tedking

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I am Ted King, your host here on King of the Ride podcast.
0:08.3	Now this episode comes on the tail end of Labor Day weekend, which every New England cyclist
0:13.1	knows is synonymous with the Green Mountain stage race. Formerly, the best little stage race in
0:19.1	America, but now they're literally the biggest stage
0:22.9	race in America, given the state of domestic cycling affairs. The cream has risen to the top.
0:28.6	This race is a classic. Now, this is a race I last did in 2009. I was on the Cerebello test team
0:35.8	at the time. It was quite the homecoming for me.
0:39.1	The perfect time of year late in the summer.
0:40.7	I shared a room at the West Hill B&B with Tim Johnson,
0:44.1	who was about to kick off his cyclocross season.
0:47.0	I won a stage.
0:48.0	I enjoyed a day or two.
0:49.3	Yeah, two days in yellow.
0:50.7	Our comrade, Jeremy Powers, won the overall.
0:53.0	It was the best. It remains the best.
0:58.8	That said, I basically thought I'd ridden all the road races, all the stage races I'd ever ride
1:03.2	right up until Laura seated the idea a few weeks ago. Hey, Ted, would you ever race the Green Mountain
1:07.9	stage race? And I had oddly just been thinking about
1:12.0	the race the day prior. It is a stunning time of year, spectacular, humidity-free, sunny weather,
1:18.6	leaves are starting to change, riding some of Vermont's most iconic roads. There's a sweet
1:25.0	prologue, a fun circuit race, a spectacular road race, a downtown Burlington
1:30.3	Criterium.
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