Lauren Stephens and Levi Leipheimer on Levi's GranFondo

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, we continue our recap of Levi’s GranFondo with this year’s winner, Lauren Stephens, who checked in from the Tour of the Gila to talk about running her own team, the dismal state of road racing in the US, and her controversial use of race radios during the Sea Otter Classic last month. Then, Payson talks to Levi Leipheimer about why he decided to create Levi’s GranFondo back in 2009, why putting on road races is so much more expensive in the US than it is in Europe, and what g...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:07.0	That email I sent him, I was like, I think we can get like 500 people to show up, you know, and Carlos is like, well, I think it's going to be more.
0:20.0	And so he set a cap of 3,500 and it sold out immediately.
0:25.7	In the first year.
0:26.8	In the first year.
0:28.1	Crazy, man.
0:29.2	Wow.
0:29.7	So then year two, he's like, okay, well raise the cap.
0:32.8	5,000 sold out immediately.
0:34.5	Year three, 7,500 sold out immediately.
0:38.1	What?
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:45.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome back.
0:47.3	We have a two-parter today.
0:49.5	Yes, I know there is a ton of bike racing going on,
0:51.8	and I would have loved to do some traca coverage,
0:55.7	some whiskey off-road coverage.
0:58.6	You know, there's so many events going on right now.
1:00.7	But for now we're going to spend one more episode discussing Levi's Graham Fondo and the growler
1:06.2	because it was a really cool experience.
1:08.5	I'm really glad I went.
1:10.0	I learned a lot.
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