Episode 56: Laurens Ten Dam — Professional Cyclist who Lives Slow, Rides Fast

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Veteran pro, Laurens Ted Dam raced professionally from 2003 through 2019 for the likes of Rabobank, Lotto Jumbo, Sunweb, and CCC. But unlike many of his European professional cyclist counterparts, he's so full of energy, he wears his two young boys out! Now retired from the World Tour, Laurens and Ted catch up on all things that are part of the LTD lifestyle, which is "Live Slow Ride Fast". This budding entrepreneur has a coffee line, clothing line, host two gravel events, has a podcast, video series, and is the Dutch editor of Bicycling Magazine. Over a couple of tasty beers part way through the Coast Ride in January, Laurens and Ted chat shop, the state of pro cycling, gravel racing, van life, and everything in between. Check out UnTapped.cc for all your sports nutrition needs and in checkout, list your favorite shop so that we'll send a check for 20% of your sale price!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The biggest fear in the States right now with gravel is that all you're doing is going to transfer road racing off road.
0:07.7	Yeah, that would be shit.
0:09.6	Yeah.
0:10.3	Well, thank.
0:15.0	Hey there, friends.
0:16.8	Two new listeners and to old.
0:19.1	Welcome to King of the Ride podcast boom there you have it that is
0:24.2	our guest today laurence tendam sharing his views which are closely in parallel with mine on a
0:31.2	whole bunch of topics of gravel we're going to dive into all of that here shortly. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show.
0:39.1	If you're a long time listener or follow some of my more recent exploits, you might
0:43.4	remember that I said recently, it would be about two weeks between episodes here in 2020.
0:50.1	So sincere apologies to those of you who are waiting exactly two weeks.
0:54.1	Yes, it has been three.
0:56.5	However, if you are that in tune with my life, you're also likely aware that parenthood has arrived.
1:03.3	Hazel arrived. My amazing wife, Laura, gave birth to little baby Hazel Grace King on March 8th, healthy and happy early in the
1:13.7	morning. She was born at Burlington, Vermont's UVM, University of Vermont Medical Center.
1:19.8	We had just wrapped up hosting my brother Robbie's 40th birthday party the evening prior.
1:25.9	And you know, it's funny. Laura felt just a little bit different.
1:28.6	She felt a little bit off there on Saturday. So we had a casual drive to the hospital,
1:34.0	just to be extra sure to check in with the doctors and make sure things are going on like they're
1:38.3	supposed to. We even talked about it and joked about it throughout the drive. Hey,
1:42.4	hey, next time, the real time we go to the hospital,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ted King, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ted King and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.