Nichole Baker on her unexpected detour into racing and graduating from Johns Hopkins

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

For years, Payson has maintained that Nichole is the most talented athlete in their household, but it wasn’t until this winter that she finally decided to add some structure to her riding and shoot for some concrete goals. It all came about during an unusual lull in her schedule shortly after she and Payson finished his crossing project in New Zealand and got married in Tasmania, and just after she completed her capstone project for her Master’s Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins.&nbs...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin, and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:11.7	It was so fun that I like, all of a sudden I was racing, and I didn't have the goal of passing a particular person, but it was just like, it was such a rush to just be
0:24.1	passing people going downhill so fast and like on this mountain bike tire that just made me feel like
0:31.2	I was invincible. I did have to tell myself that I wasn't like slow, slow down, like, chill out.
0:38.8	And then I just couldn't.
0:39.7	It was just so fun.
0:41.9	Hi, everyone.
0:45.2	Today we have my wife, Nicole Baker.
0:53.1	We check in with Nico about once per year because she has a lot of cool stuff going on.
0:57.8	But even by her standards, the last six months have been really big.
1:00.4	So it was high time we checked back in.
1:03.8	Today's show was made possible by Osprey.
1:08.4	A lot of what Nico and I talk about today actually was made possible by Osprey.
1:13.6	Like me, she's been using their new escapist velocity bike vest.
1:18.3	She used it for the 340-mile ultra race we talk about in this conversation.
1:24.4	And she used it for the four-day Sahara gravel bike race back in February,
1:26.0	which we also talk about in this episode.
1:27.9	And no doubt she'll be using it on Saturday when she lines up for Unbound. This is our go-to for long days in the saddle
1:35.2	or days when you just need to carry a few extra snacks or tools or water, all that sort of thing.
1:41.1	You can head to Osprey.com to learn more. A couple more things very
1:45.5	quickly before diving into the episode. Speaking of Unbound, which Nico decided very recently to
1:51.1	line up for, which we talk about, if you'll be there, here are a couple things outside the race
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