Phil Gaimon, cyclist

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Phil Gaimon is a former World Tour road cyclist who rode for Garmin-Sharp and Cannondale-Drapac among others. While racing, he blogged for VeloNews, Bicycling, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated and wrote the popular book Pro Cycling on $10 a Day (2014). He retired at age 30, expecting to hang up his race bike and put on some cookie-weight. He continued writing (Draft Animals (2017)), but through a series of unexpected twists, launched his wildly successful YouTube show “Worst Retir...

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0:00.0	I made myself cry writing that book and just like letting things out.
0:02.7	It was it was cathartic and it was meaningful and I think it was an important message.
0:06.8	And then there was a point where like it was a slow news week and somebody tweeted a sentence out of context that like the media reduced my book to like one sentence of mudslinging that like I didn't even say.
0:18.3	And then it turned into this like messy clickbait thing that like, I didn't even say. And then it turned into this, like, messy, click-baiting thing that, like, I probably
0:23.9	didn't handle well.
0:25.4	And so that also, like, was a bitter kind of tough pill.
0:30.1	Yeah.
0:30.9	It's showtime, everybody.
0:33.1	Showtime!
0:35.8	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:39.5	This is the world as it exists today.
0:44.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:46.7	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:49.3	You could miss it.
0:52.3	Listen, we're talk about practice.
0:55.6	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:57.1	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:59.5	I see.
1:00.0	You think this has nothing to do with you.
1:03.4	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:08.1	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McElvin.
1:12.3	Howdy y'all? Welcome back to the show. This episode, like all of December's episodes,
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