Gravel Burn stage 3 recap with Simon Pellaud

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Stage 3 of Gravel Burn was rough and tactical. Simon Pellaud, who has raced in just about every corner of the world this season and is hot off his second-place finish in the Life Time Grand Prix, took the stage win over Matt Beers and is currently sitting in second in the GC. He joins Payson to talk about how the stage played out, his strategy for securing the win, and the crash he witnessed. Thank you to TrainingPeaks for making this episode possible. Instagram: @withpacepodcast YouTub...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:09.6	I was just behind the crash that was like fucking horrific.
0:15.4	I couldn't pedal and think for a second.
0:18.1	I couldn't break because it was just in front of me and I saw him flying
0:21.6	and oh mate I dropped there because dropped from the group oh yeah yeah when I was just yelling
0:28.6	like not yelling but speaking like for myself but loudly like why do you need to fucking
0:35.5	risk your life for bike race?
0:38.9	Yeah, it's not my mindset.
0:44.7	Simon.
0:46.9	El ganador.
0:48.0	Is that how you say that?
0:48.8	Ganaor.
0:50.1	El ganor, yes.
0:52.9	Damn, dude.
1:05.8	You're insane. I feel like after... Would you say you're the strongest right now of the whole year? I mean, between Big Sugar, the race in China?
1:15.7	No, I think my best shape was actually after all the altitude, after Leadville. Really?
1:16.2	With my, okay, I struggle a little bit in Schuamegon because of the travel.
1:20.9	Yeah.
1:21.7	But my feelings in China down there were pretty sick whenever the races I won down there
1:31.0	it was but today today was a good day for me yeah today was the day you know when you feel like
1:39.0	I'm not the guy that's overconfident you know but, but today I felt, oh, these legs I have today.
1:45.1	I think I can do something with this.
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