Kristen Legan, 2023 Unbound XL winner

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Kristen Legan works in PR and Communications with some of the biggest cycling brands in the world, including Shimano and Mosaic Cycles. But on race weekends, you can find her battling for the podium. A couple of weeks ago, she walked away with the win after tearing through the mud-drenched 350 miles of the Unbound XL. In this conversation, Kristen talks to Payson about how surviving the infamous conditions at Unbound in 2015 prepared her for the miles of mud at this year’s event, her ear...

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0:00.0	Once we got through the major mud section, like probably around 3 a.m. or something like that,
0:05.5	we hit this just huge section. I knew it was going to be a really long, you know, night of walking,
0:12.3	just knowing the roads down there. And that ended up, I think, being around seven miles straight of just mud.
0:19.6	It's showtime, everybody.
0:21.7	Showtime!
0:24.4	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:28.0	This is the world as it exists today.
0:33.0	Life moves pretty fast.
0:35.4	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:37.7	You could miss it.
0:41.0	Listen, we talk about practice.
0:44.2	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:45.8	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:48.1	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:52.0	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
0:56.8	This is the adventure stash with Payson McElvin.
1:01.3	Hello, everyone.
1:02.1	Welcome back to the show.
1:03.1	Really excited to bring you today's conversation with Kristen Ligon, someone that I've
1:06.8	known of for a pretty good while, but just got to know personally more recently when we
1:10.8	had a couple of work things overlap. She works in PR and marketing, but also happens to be one of
1:17.7	those folks in the industry that is just a really badass athlete. And this was most recently brought
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