Episode 173: Michael Woods is Retired but He Isn't Finished

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A recent World Tour retiree, Michael Woods is taking a stab at a whole variety of endurance sports. This Tour de France stage winner just took on "the Tour de France of ski-mo", has aspirations to race Ironman, has a sub-4 minute mile to his name, and still dabbles in bike riding... fairly often. There's a whole lot more than endurance sports to Mike's life, gear up because this is a great one. Follow his shenanigans at www.michaelwoods.cc and @rusty_woods. Do yourself a favor and check out O-Liv and earn 55% off by using the code ted55. Thank you Bicycle Accident Law for continuing to support the show. Earn those travel packs and other AG1 goodies by visiting drinkAG1.com/tedking.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to King of the Ride podcast.
0:06.6	I am Ted King, your host here on this show.
0:10.7	I am always excited about the season ahead.
0:14.2	Heck, I could be saying that smack in the middle of the season.
0:16.4	I'm excited about the upcoming race, which in this case is taking me and the family to Puerto Rico,
0:21.4	this coming week for La Epica gravel, a two-day gravel stage race there in warm Puerto Rico.
0:28.3	So here we are, call it mid-late March.
0:30.8	I rode my second-to-last training ride before hitting the road.
0:35.4	It snowed on me.
0:37.4	It was chilly outside. It didn't get cold.
0:39.1	It didn't get wet. But it was snowing here in Vermont. I expect to see quite a bit less snow when I'm in
0:44.5	Puerto Rico come next week. Very excited about that. Our guest today, he's been basking in the snow as he is
0:51.8	high up in the mountains of Andorra over in Europe.
0:55.9	Indora, of course, is home to many, many world tour cyclists seeking that high
0:59.9	altitude training, that high altitude mountain life. And it's home for our guest, Michael Woods.
1:06.5	Here on his second stint as a guest on this show, you got to scroll all the way back to episode
1:10.7	44, recorded in the fall of 2019 when he was on his second stint as a guest on this show, you got to scroll all the way back to episode 44, recorded in fall of 2019 when he was on his home soil for the GP, Quebec City in Montreal.
1:18.5	He shared some insight then into, at that point, it was just a three-year career in the world tour.
1:25.3	So now fast forward to the present.
1:26.7	I'm so excited to have Mike on the show because he was first a world-class runner,
1:31.6	turned professional cyclist.
1:33.1	He cut his teeth in some crazy circumstances to make it to the top echelon.
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