Melisa Rollins, Leadville 100 winner

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

There are many riders who dream of winning Leadville, but few if any have spent as much time working toward it as Melisa Rollins. She’s done the mountain bike race seven times, the stage race twice, the Leadville Trail Marathon once, and the back-to-back 50-mile running and mountain biking races. She even completed the Leadville 100 running race in 2018. She was the very last racer on the course for that one, making her perhaps the only participant to have finished first and last at Leadville...

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0:00.0	My parents are racing, so I'm like eyes forward on the trail trying to get down, not really focusing on anything except peripheral vision of pink jersey because I knew my parents were going to be together with pink shoulders.
0:14.5	And when I saw them at the bottom, I was like sobbing.
0:20.7	Yeah.
0:21.6	It's showtime, everybody.
0:23.7	Showtime!
0:26.4	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:30.1	This is the world as it exists today.
0:35.0	Life moves pretty fast.
0:37.3	You don't stop and look around once in a while
0:39.3	You could miss it
0:42.9	We're talking about practice
0:45.2	Repeat on the dude's room
0:47.3	Donnie you're out of your element
0:49.2	I see you think this has nothing to do with you
0:52.6	Don't ever Tr talk black Jesus.
0:58.7	This is the adventure stash with Payson McElvin.
1:03.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome back.
1:05.4	We have a great interview today with newly crowned Leadville 100 winner Melissa Rawlins.
1:11.6	She's done quite a few interviews lately, it seems like, including a handful of podcasts,
1:16.9	but I'm pretty darn sure we were the first to record.
1:20.6	We stopped by her rental house in Leadville the very next day after the race and recorded
1:26.9	what ended up being a solid, but I think also
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