Hey there, folks. Ted King here, welcoming you to another episode of King of the Ride podcast.

Our guest today, Eric Marcotte.

Eric stormed onto the professional road race scene, winning not one but two titles in the highest

echelon of American cycling.

He took home the title of the 2014 Road Race National Championship in a memorably long, hot, hard-fought battle in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

With just 32 finishers at that race and another nearly 100 being listed as DNF did not finish.

To ice the cake the next year, 2015, he won the U.S. Criterium National title.

And with that introduction, you might think that this episode will largely revolve around pure road racing.

Rest assured, fair listeners.

This is not a hell-bent episode on such topics.

Eric has a really interesting story.

We're going to sort out in today's pod how we went from weightlifting to chiropractic school

to opening a now well-established chiropractic office.

In the meantime, he was joining the pro ranks at the age of 33, which is when he won the first

of his two national titles.

That allowed him to maintain the balance of professional cycling and a career professional

in the chiropractic office.

Let's be honest.

Many domestic pro cyclists are just scraping by.

They are racing for prize money.

They're often on minuscule stipends and many of whom are literally living below the poverty

line and calling it professional trade.

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