Iago Garay: The Real State of Enduro, Life Threatening Scares & Why He Rides With Gratitude
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to race almost every Enduro World Series round since 2013, survive a life threatening brain aneurysm and then keep racing?
In this episode of The Ride Companion we sat down with Iago Garay to hear about his journey from early Mega Avalanche races to the modern EDR World Cup. We cover everything from how Enduro racing has evolved, the training demands, nutrition, memorising tracks and Iago's near death brain aneurysm in 2023 that changed everything.
We also dive into what he would do if he ran the sport, why coverage is still an issue, how enduro is still the most relatable form of MTB and how his recovery reshaped his entire perspective on life.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't really know much about it yet, I'll be honest with you. |
| 0:02.5 | Yeah, I find it so interesting, given the conversation we've just had about fitness, food, all the stuff, like you, you know, really healthy guy. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.9 | And yet, this happens. |
| 0:13.5 | So could you talk, walk us through how it happened, why it happened? |
| 0:16.9 | Yeah, it's, uh, it's quite a, a life-changing moment. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah. Yeah, it's quite a life-changing moment. Okay, here we are. |
| 0:30.8 | Today we have someone who encapsulates the true spirit of enduro. |
| 0:35.4 | He's been bringing the stees into the edr the eWS canandale's own |
| 0:39.3 | iago go there's a nice intro now like it yeah it's good good can you how do you actually |
| 0:49.5 | say your name because i always screw it up just so we're um well you can, you can say a many ways, really. Um, it says, Yago Garay. So like, more thinking like an E instead of an I on the start of than my name. Okay. That usually makes it... You've got a nice tongue roll obviously as well, right? Yeah, I go get it. No. Got it. You know, I messed up your survey. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm just... Go with whatever. |
| 1:11.3 | Throw. get it. No. I messed up your survey. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, no, no. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm just going whatever. |
| 1:17.5 | Throwing in different languages with different names and stuff. |
| 1:21.9 | As long as it sounds somewhat familiar, I'll look around when you call my name. |
| 1:23.1 | Pete! Thanks for popping in. you're obviously very busy thanks for having us um just it's just the end of a |
| 1:35.9 | really really long block of racing and yeah you're in the thick of it huh yeah yeah yeah we just |
| 1:40.5 | done six races in like i don't, like it was eight or nine weeks. |
| 1:46.2 | So, yeah, it's been really busy. |
| 1:48.5 | But now we just finished. |
| 1:49.8 | So we're on our way back to Ella's parents' place in Scotland. |
| 1:55.0 | And, yeah, it was a perfect spot to stop and take a rest. |
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