Episode 26: James Bay Descent, part 1

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The first in a two part series about the record setting James Bay Descent fat bike expedition through northern Canada, Ted sits down to talk with the rest of the team, Eric Batty, Ryan Atkins, and Buck Miller. This ride is a 600+km, ten day, self-supported ride from Attawapiskat in Ontario, to the Nunavut Territory in the James Bay, then south to Smooth Rock Falls. Weathering temperatures as low as -40 degrees C/F and pedaling through polar bears country, this ride has its risks. Today's episode is a precursor to how the team will tackle such an intrepid and out-there adventure. This episode was recorded the day they set out for two days of literally, "bike practice" to see what it's like to wield these 85-100 pound bikes and in temperatures well below zero up in the Adirondacks in New York. The ride was possible with the gracious thanks to Cannondale Fat CAAD bikes, Blackburn's Outpost line up of bags for the frame/handlebar/saddle bags, 45NRTH's Cobrafist pogeys and Wolfgar boots, Timmermade sleeping systems, Kombi's mittens and wool long underwear, a mountain of maple fuel thanks to UnTapped. Please check out the fundraising component of this ride, the beneficiary being the Timmins Native Friendship Centre, Moosonee Office: https://www.gofundme.com/james-bay-descent-timmins-native-friendship-center A big thanks goes out to Strava for presenting this episode! Specifically, be sure to look up their new podcast Athletes Unfiltered. Featuring normal athletes, good, inspiring people, daring enough to share their journey day after day. If you like King of the Ride, you'll dig Athletes Unfiltered.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Ted King here on the mic, your host as always here at King of the Ride podcast.
0:09.6	I'm back. I've mentioned it in past podcasts. I know a lot of you are following along in the James
0:16.6	Bay descent. That is the first known expedition, the first known ride of its kind linking Ontario to
0:24.6	Nunavitt territory in northern Canada.
0:27.6	Ontario, of course, many of you know because it's home to worldly cities like Ottawa,
0:32.3	it is a beautiful province in Canada.
0:35.1	But none of it is a much lesser known part of the world because for one,
0:39.3	it's so sparsely populated and two, it's so gosh darn far north. So none of it is a massive
0:46.1	territory in northern Canada forming most of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. It is the largest
0:53.4	of the Canadian provinces, in fact.
0:56.0	It is the furthest north of the Canadian provinces, and it is quite literally the Arctic.
1:02.2	Home to the Arctic fox, the Arctic hair, the Arctic wolf, and the polar bear.
1:10.0	Now, I consider myself at least mildly geographically adept, but this
1:14.0	portion of the world is something completely foreign to me. I encourage you to get a map
1:19.7	throughout this quickfire podcast. Load up Google Maps. Go dig out a world atlas, go literally
1:26.7	to your library and find a globe handy because the places we're going to talk about today and where we just rode is absolutely fascinating.
1:34.5	And so I'm back. We're back. We successfully completed the 600 kilometer, nearly two-week self-supported expedition dubbed the James Bay descent.
1:45.0	We will dive into all those juicy details in today's pod.
1:49.4	This is going to be the first of two parts of the James Bay descent podcast here in King of the Ride.
1:56.0	I will let the James Bay descent team introduce themselves, introduce ourselves, I should say,
2:01.9	early in this pod, rather than doing so right here right now.
2:06.1	But in summary, we are for current or former professional athletes,
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