Episode 158: Roger Brown is Chasing UNBOUND Glory

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Our most frequent guest is back! Roger Brown brought a new training technique to UNBOUND XL and that was a mix of training, not training, waffling on whether he would do the event or not, a trip to Europe, and ultimately a successful go at the 359 mile UNBOUND XL! We'll talk all the usual song and dance about his preparation, how it all shook out, how he bought a shirt (for free!) in the town of Alma, seeing things deep into sleep deprivation, GLP-1, and why we weren't at the Formula 1 race in Montreal this weekend. Thanks very much to UnTapped for supporting this episode. Get your hands on all new Mint UnTapped and use the code "RogerXL" for 20% savings on any mint product at untapped.cc. Visit join.whoop.com/ted to get a free one month of the new WHOOP 5.0 plus a free band. AG1 just launched their newest next generation formula. Try it out at drinkAG1.com/ted

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back.
0:05.2	I'm your host here on King of the Ride, Ted King, talking into the mic to you here now.
0:11.9	We're ticking off another episode.
0:13.9	We're up to episode 158.
0:16.6	And not just that, but our guest today, Roger Brown, has earned the title of the most frequent guest on King of the Ride, as this was his fifth unbound here in 2025 and therefore his fifth edition of being a guest on this show.
0:30.9	So at the risk of repeating myself from the last episode in which he appeared, or the three preceding that. Roger is my friend, my neighbor,
0:39.9	one of my fellow co-founders of Untapped. So once upon a time, as the story goes, we at Untapped
0:45.8	earn a spot at the start line of the hallowed gravel bike race, courtesy of supporting the event
0:50.6	in the form of the expo. The offer went around the office.
0:54.9	Hey, who would like to ride?
0:57.0	Anyone want to go for a 200 mile ride or more?
1:00.0	Roger thought, why the heck not?
1:02.5	He thought, I haven't ridden my bike more than once a month for the past 20 years.
1:07.4	I'm fresh as a daisy, ready to go.
1:09.7	I think the year was probably 2021 when that happened. That led to a first successful finish.
1:16.2	The next year, the same thing happened. Another successful 200 miles. And then in
1:20.1	2023 and 2024, he attempted the XL. Up to the ante. Mind you, I'm not kidding when in previous episodes I have proclaimed that Rogers
1:30.2	likely the least prepared rider going into these events.
1:34.1	And I don't mean that discouragingly.
1:37.6	I mean that tastefully.
1:39.6	Roger is an all-star dad, a business owner, an entrepreneur.
1:42.8	He's a coach for many of his four kids
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