Episode 84: Tejay van Garderen — Professional Cyclist, Retiree, Director Sportif

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tejay van Garderen is one of the best cyclists America has ever produced. With stage wins in the Giro, the Tour de Suisse, Volta Catalunya, and plenty more, overall wins at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge and the Tour of California, plus best young rider and 5th place (twice) at the Tour de France, Tejay's palmares are lengthy. He's also a fascinating conversationalist, is knowledgeable about wine, introduced me to burrata, knows his NFL, is a father to two girls, and husband to Jessica. Tejay has lots of knowledge and experience to share and we do so over this conversation. Like, comment, share. Thanks for listening! -Ted

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another King of the Ride podcast. I hope your 2021 had just the right
0:09.8	finishing touches on it so you can look back proudly at the year that was. And if not,
0:15.6	then let's bid farewell to the year that wasn't. And cheers to you, cheers to an excellent 2022.
0:23.0	Our guest today, he's had a noteworthy 2021 as he wrapped up what I'm going to call his
0:29.8	incredible cycling career, one of the very best cyclists has ever produced.
0:36.4	He has won the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, the Amgen Tour of California.
0:41.3	He has stage wins at the Giro de Italia, the Tour of Swiss, the Volta Catalonia.
0:45.3	He has also finished second twice overall the Criterium to Dauphinet.
0:51.8	Twice, fifth overall, the Tour to France. Yeah, I would say his career has been remarkable.
0:58.6	My friend, T.J. Van Gartarin, is a guest on today's podcast. Now, I've got a few years on
1:04.9	TJ. I am his elder, but I've been nothing but impressed with him throughout our time together.
1:11.1	We overlapped a little bit in Belgium at the U-S. national team where I was in the U-23 squad.
1:15.4	He was a junior.
1:16.4	And I was back in 2005.
1:18.1	A few years later, we became friends living together in Boulder, Colorado.
1:22.7	Fast forward a few more years.
1:24.3	We lived together in Luca, Italy.
1:26.7	We both shared the characteristic of
1:28.6	zipping location to location for the best training, the best weather, the best location to
1:33.6	be riding a bike and training for our careers. So I've seen him here and there and everywhere,
1:39.9	all over the world. Now, don't worry, this won't purely be a cycling podcast as we caught up on
1:46.5	a whole lot of stuff after a whole long time apart. We're going to talk American sports, geography,
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