Lael Wilcox, Boundary Busting Bikepacker
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Lael Wilcox started biking in 2008 at age 20 with an around the world bike trip that took her through more than 30 countries. In 2015, essentially her first year of racing, she won the Tour Divide and smashed the women’s record by more than 2 days. The next year she won the 4,400 mile Trans Am Bike Race, and set the overall record for both men and women on the Baja Divide route in 2017. Today Lael continues to race and co-leads a mentorship program for middle school girls called Anchorage GRIT in her hometown.
We ask Lael to share her tips and tricks for bikepacking and mental toughness, and talk about the role gender plays in ultra endurance competition. Lael fills us in on how her plans have changed for 2020, her take on documenting and filming her adventures, and finding nutritious food to eat during races.
Follow and connect with Lael on Instagram @laelwilcox
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| 0:40.4 | Happy trails. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:42.1 | Welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Lail Wilcox. |
| 0:49.2 | Layle started biking in 2008 at age 20 with an around-the-world bike trip that took her through more than 30 countries. |
| 0:58.3 | In 2015, essentially her first year of racing, she won the Tour Divide and smashed the women's record by more than two days. |
| 1:06.4 | The next year, she won the 4,400-mile Trans Am bike race and set the overall record for both men |
| 1:13.2 | and women on the Baja Divide Route in 2017. |
| 1:17.4 | Today, Leal continues to race and co-leads a mentorship program for middle school girls called |
| 1:23.1 | Grit Anchorage in her hometown. |
| 1:26.0 | Thanks for joining us, Lail. |
| 1:27.4 | Hey, thanks for having me. So that's a really |
| 1:30.2 | long list of accomplishments for someone who's only been racing for six years or so. Did you imagine |
| 1:35.9 | any of this when you're growing up? Absolutely not. I wasn't a cyclist, but I guess as a kid, |
| 1:42.3 | my real dream was to be a professional athlete. I wanted to be a |
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