Iz King on balancing gravel racing and pregnancy

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

When Iz King got pregnant six months ago, she wasn’t sure how it would affect her career as a gravel racer. Like many female athletes who want to have a baby at some point, she was all too aware that pregnancy, like being an elite-level cyclist, is contingent on a finite biological window. She knew right away that she wanted to continue racing, but she also knew that her career was going to change significantly. This year, she’s continued to race, but she has no intention of being at the fron...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:11.7	The email basically said, hi, I'm super excited.
0:15.3	I'm pregnant.
0:16.1	I hope you are too.
0:17.0	Here's my plan for what I want to do this year.
0:19.6	Like I sent those out like one at a time to each sponsor and I was like, my heart
0:23.4	was so high and I was like, oh, yeah.
0:26.1	Pretty immediately I got a few responses coming back super super positive.
0:29.8	And with that, I think it's been really exciting and that everyone has kind of taken it
0:34.7	as an opportunity to say like, what can we do with this?
0:46.9	Hi, everyone, and happy Mother's Day. We have a Mother's Day special today. Very fun.
0:57.9	Is King joins us to talk about the decision to start a family with her husband, Joe, while in the middle of her pro racing prime is a fan favorite and a longtime friend of mine as well and I was just really happy to get the chance to
1:03.9	sit down in person in their home in beautiful southern sunny California. I hope you enjoy.
1:12.1	Today's episode is made possible by Osprey.
1:15.1	If you happen to follow them on the socials,
1:17.8	you may have seen a photo of me recently
1:19.3	wearing their just released escapist velocity hydration vest
1:23.9	while riding across New Zealand last fall.
1:27.0	I really love this vest. It's really good for
1:29.7	racing and epic outings alike or races that are also epic outings. My wife, Nicole, just wore
1:37.9	one of these over the last couple of days while she raced the 340 mile mid-Missouri circuit
1:43.8	where she took the win. nico and it comes in
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