Episode 157: Rob Britton Just Won UNBOUND XL

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Rob Britton stole the show Saturday morning at UNBOUND. He not only passed Lachlan Morton after a 200km chase, but he forced the UNBOUND organizers to rethink their morning strategy because he crossed the line just before 9am, when there's traditionally a 50 mile roll out. He rode the nearly 360 mile in smoking fast pace! Rob is not new to racing, as he's won some of North America's biggest road races. With the switch to gravel in 2022, he's has big results in the LTGP and plenty of other big events. With success at Badlands, the BC Epic, and others, the ultra distance is nothing new to Rob either. Sit back and enjoy this fun conversation picking apart the very long day (and overnight, and the next day too). Pick up a Bolt Skin + Shave razor at boltshave.com and use the code king15 for some smooth savings. Give the newest edition of AG1 a try by visiting drinkAG1.com/tedking

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome back to King of the Ride.
0:07.4	Episode 157, I'm your host, Ted King.
0:10.7	Recent participant at the Unbound XL, the 360-mile race.
0:17.1	That goes off the day before.
0:18.6	It starts on Friday afternoon and races all through Saturday.
0:22.5	I say participant because I went in with a good bit of fitness and what I considered a solid
0:27.6	race plan. I went in with the intention of racing, but a spate of mechanicals ultimately derailed
0:33.2	my day. This episode is certainly not about me, though. It's about someone with whom I rode for
0:38.4	108 miles before I had to stop. Our guest today is the eventual winner of the Unbound XL,
0:43.6	Rob Britton. Now, when Rob reached out to me back in 2021 with an interest in taking his talents
0:51.7	to gravel, I knew that the sport was only going to improve.
0:56.5	In addition, I knew it was only going to get that much faster.
0:59.0	You see, Rob is a rocket ship on the bike.
1:01.6	He's a very impressive road career that brought him Canadian national titles.
1:05.4	The overall at the hotly contested tour of Utah, tour of Gila, he had a top ten at Tour of California. He at six
1:14.2	foot one is the kind of cyclist that us tall cyclists can look up to, A, because he's tall,
1:20.1	and B, because he really showed that tall cyclists can race G.C. But then specifically and thoughtfully,
1:27.0	Rob has created a schedule and a lifestyle for himself here
1:29.9	in career 2.0 after road racing that is strategically not pro road racing off road which is often
1:35.6	what modern gravel racing feels like sure he's ridiculously fast but not at the cost of having a good
1:40.6	time and that's something that i really appreciate about rob and i I think you're going to pick up in today's conversation.
1:47.0	Anyway, with all the talk of Unbound this week,
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