Oregon Trail stage 3 co-hosted by Sarah Sturm, with Skyler Taylor

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Payson McElveen

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Stage 3 saw the riders heading out for an enduro day that turned out to be very heavy on the climbing. Skyler Taylor, who won the men’s stage, joins Payson and Sarah to talk about how he managed to reel in Cam Jones who has so far dominated the race with his power and descending skills. He also talks about deciding to leave his full-time job to focus on gravel this year, which he quickly followed through on by winning a wild card spot in the Grand Prix. Plus, Sarah talks about why time has ne...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:05.0	The second segment, which is the one I actually pulled out all the time.
0:16.2	I felt like it was going terrible in the moment.
0:18.2	I had super heavy legs.
0:19.4	I was super tired from the first one.
0:21.3	But then I realized, I saw Cam and I realized the downhill is going to take very little
0:26.2	from my legs. So I might as well just completely empty myself. Yeah. And I think that sort of
0:31.5	mental switch was the difference to pull out those seconds and see what was possible.
0:42.3	Yeah. the difference to pull out the seconds and see what was possible. Okay, day three,
0:45.4	Enduro Day.
0:46.4	I always think it's ironic when they call it Enduro Day,
0:49.1	and we had the longest uphill time trial I've ever done, I think,
0:52.3	to start it.
0:54.0	But it was three segments. I think
0:57.3	the total distance for the entire day was 26 miles. 24 miles. The uphill TT was 6.5. 2100 feet of
1:10.0	climbing.
1:12.0	Pretty steady,
1:14.2	minus towards the top.
1:15.7	There were a couple little flat spots,
1:17.2	and then it like really kicked up.
1:22.5	And then the last 500 meters was just this like false summit of sorrow.
1:27.4	I realized I don't. The line just didn't come. Yeah. I realized I don't. was just this like false summit of sorrow.
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