Jamie Bestwick, 14x X Games BMX champion, on discovering gravel and the dark side of athletic greatness

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

For over 20 years, Jamie Bestwick reigned as one of BMX's most decorated athletes in the history of the sport. Since competing in his first X Games in 1996, he's won 14 gold medals at the event, including in nine consecutive years. In 2005, he won every single event in which he competed. Now he's found a new outlet: gravel racing. In this conversation, Jamie tells Payson about his harrowing experience racing at Unbound Gravel earlier this year, including what made him complete the 206 ...

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0:00.0	I'm lay there in the middle of the Flint Hills on my back, eyes closed,
0:06.6	thinking that the world is going to end, and somebody would go,
0:11.0	Jamie Beswick.
0:14.6	And I would open my eyes and I would go, hello?
0:19.5	There we go.
0:20.7	You were the last person I thought I'd see laid down in the middle of the road in
0:26.6	Kansas as I'm trying to force down the gel and I'm holding blades of grass up to try
0:32.6	and get some shade from the sun.
0:34.6	It's showtime, everybody.
0:38.1	Showtime!
0:42.4	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:46.9	This is the world as it exists today.
0:50.4	Life moves pretty fast.
0:53.0	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:54.4	You could miss it.
0:58.8	Listen, we're talking about practice.
1:01.0	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:02.9	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:04.3	I see.
1:06.3	You think this has nothing to do with you.
1:10.3	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:15.3	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McElvin.
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