Keegan Swenson, mountain bike racer

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Keegan Swenson joins Payson one week after setting a course record at 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo. They talk about his pivot toward endurance racing after narrowly missing out on a spot at the Olympics for XC, and how he managed to beat out stiff competition to take the top step at 24 HOP in spite of it being his first 24-hour solo race. He talks about how his XC training informs his endurance racing mentality in good and bad ways, and the gravel rookie who he thinks is the rider to beat in th...

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0:00.0	As much as I enjoy mountain bike racing, I think I enjoy competition and winning more than anything.
0:05.2	I know maybe that sounds a little shallow or whatever, but I think for me, I'm a competitor,
0:09.4	like first and foremost.
0:10.9	Like, I want to see if I can win by 10 minutes.
0:13.1	I don't just want to win by like a sprint.
0:14.9	You know, I think there's a kind of different mentality.
0:17.0	You can tell when someone has that or not, but, I don't really want to do anything else.
0:22.0	I want to race my bike, and I have a lot of fun doing it,
0:25.0	and it's a good job.
0:26.0	So I like to push myself and keep going.
0:29.2	It's showtime, everybody.
0:31.4	Showtime!
0:34.1	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:44.2	This is the world as it exists today life moves pretty fast you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it listen we're talking about
0:52.0	practice repeat on the dude's room.
0:55.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:57.6	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:01.6	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:06.3	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:10.9	Hello, everyone.
1:12.1	Welcome back to the show.
1:13.5	I'm recording this intro from a slightly different circumstances than I expected to be when I left for the Mid-South gravel race last week.
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