Episode 77: Sarah Sturm — All Things Two-Wheeled Ripper

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Sturm is a verb. She's a rider, a racer, a mentor, a coach, a happy bundle of energy. She's the inaugural 2021 Leadboat champion, then the very next week won the Last Best Ride in Whitefish, MT which is where this podcast was recorded just a few short hours after she won. Covering all aspects of a busy race season, how she got into the sport, the development and direction of gravel, plus plenty of other hilarious tidbits this conversation doesn't quite cover it all, but it comes mighty darn close. Follow Sarah on instagram at: @Sarah_Sturmy Photo: @roszko

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0:00.0	Welcome back to King of the Ride podcast.
0:05.5	I'm Ted King, host of this eponymous show.
0:08.7	I'm excited to be here.
0:11.0	Our West Coast swing has come to an end.
0:14.7	And that is where I caught up with our guest today, Sarah Sturm in Whitefish, Montana.
0:20.6	Just hours after she had won the last best ride.
0:24.6	This is also just one week after she won leadboat with the lowest cumulative time in back-to-back race days,
0:32.1	Leadville on Saturday, Steamboat on Sunday.
0:35.3	She's shown all throughout the 2021 season that she has got wheels.
0:40.0	She had a breakout 2019.
0:41.8	We had COVID 2020.
0:43.5	And now with events back on board in a very big way, she's got herself a pretty crazy schedule,
0:49.1	which we're going to talk about today.
0:51.5	Sarah is that rare example of someone who got into triathlon before college. That got her
0:57.7	into cycling at the powerhouse Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, even though when she went to
1:03.6	college, she didn't have any plans of riding a bike. She's raced on the road. She fell out of love
1:10.6	with that hyper-competitivity. She's an absolute ripper on the road. She fell out of love with that hyper-competitivity.
1:13.3	She's an absolute ripper on a cross-bike, single-speed cross-bike.
1:17.3	She's right at home on an enduro rig.
1:19.1	Obviously, she rips quite handily on a gravel bike.
1:22.7	She's also a coach, a mentor, a full-time graphic design artist,
1:26.7	and as you're going to find out,
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