Lael Wilcox, ultra endurance cyclist

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4.8 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Lael Wilcox is the best female ultra-endurance cyclist in the world. Her most notable accomplishments include winning the 4,300 mile Trans Am Bike Race outright (after passing the lead male rider in the final miles) and setting the record for the 2,750 mile Tour Divide (after riding thousands of miles to the race start from her home in Alaska). She has spent the past eleven years traveling the world on her bicycle, logging over 100,000 miles in 35 countri...

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0:00.0	I'd been chasing him for, you know, 17 days.
0:03.4	They're like, Stefan's 50 miles ahead.
0:05.5	Stephens, 20 miles ahead.
0:06.8	And then he said his name, and I just took off.
0:10.2	No way.
0:10.9	I started just like sprinting my heart.
0:13.5	I was like, oh my God, this is the guy.
0:16.2	You're a killer.
0:17.2	Yeah.
0:18.5	He started sprinting.
0:20.1	And he starts sprinting, and he's like, we're like side by side and like he's like, I was just
0:25.4	hitting the gas so hard.
0:27.2	I was like going.
0:28.1	Then he'd like catch up and then I'd go harder and harder and harder.
0:31.0	This was for like 25 miles.
0:32.9	Then finally I look back and he was gone and I was like, oh my God.
0:36.8	Like I dropped him.
0:39.1	It's showtime, everybody.
0:41.3	Showtime!
0:44.0	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:47.7	This is the world as it exists today.
0:52.6	Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while. You moves pretty fast.
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