Episode 48: Payson McElveen — Professional Mountain Bike and Gravel Racer

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This was a long time coming! Payson and Ted are not long lost brothers, but they share a boatload of traits in common. Originally a Texas boy, Payson and Ted met up at the behind the scenes Big Sugar in their shakeout event before the inaugural ride in 2020. Now residing in mountain bike mecca, Durango, Colorado, Payson is a professional cross country mountain biker with a particular knack for marathon races, as he's a 2x national champion in that discipline. So "riding bikes off road for long periods of time" is definitely his area of expertise, making gravel racing a particularly good format for him. Yup, he's a ripper! Unsure if Ted would interview Payson or Payson interview Ted, this podcasts takes an interesting turn when they interview each other. Covering the topics of modern media, naturally they delve into the conversation of podcasts, van life, and the politics of contemporary gravel racing, this hardly scratches the surface of what the two of these guys can dig up. Don't forget to hit up www.SugarCane200.com for some early season fun in Florida!

Transcript

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0:00.0	To our listeners who don't listen to each other's podcasts, we should introduce our podcast.
0:06.1	Mine, my name is Ted King, and mine is called King of the Ride.
0:09.3	Listen to King of the Ride. It's good.
0:11.8	Thanks. Payson, what you got?
0:13.5	My name is Payson McElven, not Mick Eleven, and my podcast is called The Adventure Stash.
0:23.0	Hey there, folks, that's right. I am Ted King. This is King of the Ride.
0:28.6	And that was Payson McKelvin, who is not the host of this show, but is the host of his own show,
0:34.6	The Adventure Stash. Pason and I have a whole lot of similarities.
0:40.8	We are both bike riders.
0:42.7	We are both bike racers.
0:44.5	We are both enjoying this whole burgeoning world of gravel.
0:48.0	We are podcasters and share an interest in creating content for the general good
0:52.4	and general grod.
0:55.5	I had a beard once, a very scruffy beard, and he has an excellent mustache.
1:01.3	Pason got the better of me at Land Run earlier this year where he took the win, and I slotted
1:05.1	into seconds, and then I won up to him at Steamboat, where we swapped those podium positions.
1:10.9	The list goes on. Seriously, though, he and I won up to him at Steamboat where we swapped those podium positions. The list goes on.
1:12.8	Seriously, though, he and I have been trying to find time to sit down to podcast when we realized
1:18.8	we were at a little bit of a stalemate as he wants to interview me and I want to interview
1:23.4	him.
1:24.5	So first, given that scenario, second, given a shortage of time, since the two of us
1:30.7	limit ourselves to just face-to-face interviews when we are hosting our podcasts, and third,
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