I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.

I have always wanted to do Lifetime Grand Prix.

I always told myself I didn't want to make that commitment until I felt like I could be competitive. Yeah. Like I didn't want to make that commitment until I felt like I could be competitive.

Yeah.

Like I didn't want to waste people's money.

I mean, it takes a lot of resources to come over, especially now that I'm in Europe, to do something like that.

And I didn't want to do it just to fight for, like, the bottom of the lifetime.

Like, unless I really thought i could be in it

yeah it wasn't time hello everyone welcome back to the show um i'm up here in norcal two hours

north of sea otter just doing some last preparations before the race hanging out with brayden lang

but while we're out training here a few

days ago, we saw Morgan Aguirre out training as well, who is an American racer, but has lived in

Dirona, Spain the last handful of years, so has predominantly focused on the Gravel Earth series

and more of the European races. But she's a new name to the Lifetime Grand Prix. And I wanted

to get her on the podcast two years post our first interview because a lot's changed. And I wanted to

hear why she decided to commit to this series that is definitely not the closest one for her. She's had plenty of success on the

Gravelyth series, and so I kind of wanted to peel back a few layers and hear why she's focusing

on the Grand Prix this year, what she's thinking going into it, and also a little bit of how

her season has started as well. So hope you enjoy. And yeah, we'll certainly be doing some sort

of recap style episodes post-Grami rounds as well. Structure on that. Still a little bit TBD,

but you can look for some analysis throughout the season as well. We have a new sponsor today.

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