Neil Beltchenko, winner of the Colorado Trail Race 2021

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Neil Beltchenko has competed in some of the most infamous bikepacking races for nearly a decade, including the Iditarod Trail Invitational, which he won in 2018, and the Arizona Trail 300, which he has won multiple times and where set a course record in 2016. In this interview, he joins Payson just days after winning the Colorado Trail Race. He has ridden and completed the Colorado Trail six times, and set a course record in 2016. In spite of these accomplishments, however, he tells Payson th...

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0:00.0	I never have a record on my mind. I've never carried splits to break a record. I just go out,
0:06.6	ride my own ride, know what I'm doing, try to be as swift as possible. Just, yeah, being able
0:11.7	to stay consistent is key and it ended up working out this year.
0:16.0	It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:26.9	You've been living in a dream world neo this is the world as it exists today life moves pretty fast you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it
0:37.2	listen we're talk about practice
0:39.3	repeat on the dude's room
0:41.3	Donnie you're out of your element
0:43.3	I see you think this has nothing to do with you
0:47.3	don't ever
0:49.3	trash talk black Jesus
0:51.3	This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin.
0:57.3	Hello everyone.
0:58.3	Welcome back to the show.
0:59.6	Today, the one and only, Neil Belchenko.
1:03.0	I've been trying to get Neil on the show for upwards of a year, maybe over a year.
1:08.0	Ever since I started planning my Colorado Trail record attempt slash
1:13.4	first foray into bike packing, I knew Neil was one of the folks I wanted to talk to because
1:18.8	he holds the record on the Colorado Trail and probably a handful of the fastest times it's ever
1:25.7	been ridden. He's done it six times now, I believe,
1:30.2	and has finished it every time also, which is extremely unusual. Basically, this guy owns the CT. And I
1:39.5	wasn't really sure what to expect when I reached out to him about a year ago, because, you know,
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