Kurt Refsnider on Bikepacking, Training, and Facing Challenges
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Kurt Refsnider is a badass bikepacker who is the only person to have won all three events in the Triple Crown of Bikepacking — the Tour Divide, the Arizona Trail 750, and most recently, the Colorado Trail Race. He’s also a former professor of geology, a cycling coach, and the founder of Bikepacking Roots, an organization that advocates for bikepacking and the environment.
We talk with Kurt about competition, bikepacking, and seeking out personal challenges. Kurt shares his tips for mountain bike training, and his favorite piece of gear for any bikepacking expedition.
We also learn about Bikepacking Roots and discuss the fight for bike access in Wilderness areas.
Connect with Kurt at Ultramtb.net and bikepackingroots.org.
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 0:48.8 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today my guest guest is Kurt Reff Snyder. So Kurt is a badass |
| 0:57.5 | bikepacker, and he's the only person to have won all three events in the triple crown of |
| 1:03.0 | bikepacking. That's the Tour Divide, the Arizona Trail 750, and most recently he won the Colorado |
| 1:09.5 | Trail Race. He's also a former professor of geology, |
| 1:13.4 | a cycling coach, and the founder of bikepacking routes, an organization that advocates for |
| 1:19.0 | bikepacking and the environment. Thanks for joining us, Kurt. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited |
| 1:23.4 | to be here. So I read that you completed your first solo century bike ride at the age of 13. So most |
| 1:31.6 | 13-year-olds would probably feel good about riding just a quarter of that distance. What did it feel |
| 1:36.4 | like to you to finish such a big ride at an early age? Oh, that was, it's, it was kind of a |
| 1:42.7 | entertaining story looking back on it because it all, like, I was really just, I loved riding bikes around the woods near my house in Minnesota and just exploring on my bike at that point. Most of my rides probably were like eight miles, 15 miles, something like that at most. And I remember being in the, uh, the library with my mom, just the county library. And they used to have |
| 2:03.9 | these long shelves of all the current editions of different magazines out. And one of them that I was |
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