Hello and welcome to another episode of King of the Ride podcast. I'm your host. I'm Ted King,

and you're in store for an awesome episode of K-O-T-R today. It's a summer episode. It's a July

episode in some very slight ways. It's a tour episode. It's an excellent

episode and that is thanks largely to our guests today, my friend, Mr. Ian Boswell. Ian Boswell,

Oregonian born and raised, now proudly living here in Vermont. He and his then-girlfriend, now wife Gretchen.

They moved to Vermont, I think about a year, year and a half before Laura and I made the move.

Rural Vermont, and I do mean rural way up country where they live, that is not the traditional

home base for a pro cyclist.

But as much as Ian has had a prolific young career already, jumping from

the best domestic junior team to the best domestic U23 team, and then onto pro team, and then onto the

international scene with Team Sky and now with the Mighty Katusha program, Ian is not your traditional

professional bike racer.

You see, there are some unwritten rules for being a professional cyclist. There

exist these supposedly understood list of dues and especially don't. Don't go camping

mid-season. Don't live here in Vermont. Don't eat ice cream. Don't go fishing on your

rest day because it's understood that you're supposed to be laying in bed, exerting yourself as

little as possible on those rest days. Ian has a funny story of his first encounter with me,

which thankfully I don't remember in exactly the same way he does, but it still shows the thoughtfulness of this guy.

Over the course of getting to know more about Ian since he's moved to town, becoming friends with him and his wife, Gretchen.

I wish I had the perspective Ian does during my career, during my time racing.

You'll pick up on what I mean in this conversation.

Ian's ethos, his perspective as it pertains to cycling and then much bigger picture in life,

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