Griffin and Cullen Easter on returning to racing with OpiCure

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Griffin and Cullen Easter have been racing with and against each other since college. The brothers graduated from separate universities but went on to ride for UCI Continental team Airgas-Safeway together. Their paths diverged when Griffin went to race overseas and Cullen pursued a nursing degree, but their careers have merged again in unexpected ways in recent years. While Griffin was winning a stage at the Vuelta a Colombia and pulling off impressive results in Europe, Cullen was working in...

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0:00.0	We went out there and she did the race and it was like, you know, 100 miles.
0:05.0	And I just remember like she crossed the finish line and she was just so pumped.
0:11.0	Oh, that's awesome.
0:12.0	Fiss pumping and like, and then I remember she told me at the end of that day, she's like, hey, she goes, this works.
0:20.0	Like, I'll tell you right now, like I was dealing with a bunch of shit before this race.
0:25.0	I've never felt more like I wanted to use again.
0:28.4	And then it just went away.
0:30.3	You're onto something.
0:31.1	This works.
0:32.3	You keep doing it.
0:33.7	And so I was like, okay, like, there you have it.
0:36.8	Like, here's someone who was early in the
0:37.9	recovery, had a big stressor right before this event, said she wanted to use, did the event,
0:44.0	and like literally was on the bike and the bike cleared that for her. And so that was like
0:51.0	when Griff and I was like, okay, this is, this is awesome.
0:55.2	It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
1:00.0	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
1:03.8	This is the world as it exists today.
1:08.6	Life moves pretty fast.
1:14.6	You don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it
1:26.6	listen we talk about practice repeat on the dude's room donnie you're out of your element i see you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:30.2	Don't ever trash top black Jesus.
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