Kurt Refsnider, professional bikepack racer

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Refsnider is a professional bikepack racer who holds records for the Arizona Trail 750 and Grand Loop. He’s also won multiple bikepacking races including the Tour Divide, and Colorado Trail Race. In this conversation, he and Payson talk about how he got into cycling in his teens, why he chose to abandon cyclocross and crits for ultras, and the seemingly risky decision to quit his day job as a geology professor and pursue bikepacking full time. They talk about some of his sketchiest...

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0:00.0	And I remember just laying down in the trail.
0:02.5	Like, I'd already slept for a couple hours that night.
0:04.8	So I just laid there in the trail for a couple minutes
0:06.7	and just thought about where I was and what I was doing.
0:09.3	I'm like, again, you chose this.
0:12.0	You knew this would happen somewhere to just get up and like,
0:15.0	keep going.
0:15.6	And once the sun comes up, it's going to be gorgeous.
0:18.4	It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:23.2	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:27.0	This is the world as it exists today.
0:31.9	Life moves pretty fast.
0:34.2	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:36.6	You could miss it.
0:39.8	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:43.0	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:44.6	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:47.0	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:50.9	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
0:55.6	This is the adventure stash with Pace and McElvin.
0:59.8	Hello and welcome back to the show.
1:01.6	This week, no ads.
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