Episode 156: Mads Würtz Schmidt -- On a Gravel TEAR

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Mads Würtz Schmidt has national titles, world titles, and World Tour pro wins but going into 2025 he's taken his skillset to gravel off-road to gravel. He's already racking up wins taking two UCI wins, the prestigious Traka 200 title, and now he's here on North American soil to try his hand at Unbound. Mads and I met up two days shy of the boiling hot Gravel Locos for this face to face conversation. Covering his time in rainbow stripes, his World Tour career, struggles with physical and mental setbacks, how therapy helped him rebound to the incredibly positive (and productive) place he is now. Follow Mads @madswurtzschmidt Change your shaving game entirely with Bolt Skin + Shave. Use the code KING15 for handy first time buyer savings! And give them a follow at @BOLTskinshave And give the newest generation of AG1 a try by trying out drinkAG1.com/tedking

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back.
0:05.1	I feel like I blinked, and already we're in the heat of the season.
0:09.5	As of this recording, it is 96 degrees outside here in Hiko, Texas.
0:14.1	We're here on the eve of Gravel Locos, one week shy of Unbound Week.
0:18.5	And right in the same vein, we've got a heater of a conversation today.
0:23.5	Moss, not Mads, Wirtz Schmidt, apologies, I'm not Danish, is our guest today. Moss is a standout
0:31.5	cyclist who is currently on an absolute tear. So to begin, the rumor is he's the third highest ranked rider in the UCI gravel rankings,
0:40.3	courtesy of winning the two UCI races he's entered on an easy feat. He also won the Troca in his
0:46.2	hometown of Gerona earlier this spring. Then let's backtrack a bit. He's not new to the podium,
0:52.3	having won two UCI World Championships
0:54.8	in the junior and U23 ranks in his day.
0:57.7	A junior title at the Perry Group Bay Junior race.
1:00.7	A bunch of national titles over that time.
1:03.6	A stage of Torano, the dude absolutely rips.
1:08.1	So, Moss has taken his cycling skill set from the road to gravel here in 2025.
1:15.2	We're going to talk about how that transition has gone, how it came about.
1:18.6	We're going to talk about dealing with injury, how mental health has played a huge role
1:22.4	and how his cycling story has unfolded, how he's arguably more fit now than he was in his world tour years,
1:30.1	and touch on maybe how some words that I passed along to him, not too long ago,
1:34.7	hoped to encourage this peak fitness.
1:37.5	This is a great one.
1:38.6	This is a really fun conversation.
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