Rai Benjamin On How He Fell In Love With Cycling During The Offseason
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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"But there are not a lot of Black cyclists that ride, obviously. Justin Williams' whole thing is about getting more Black people on bikes and just people on bikes in general. It was awesome because I've never met those guys before and they knew nothing about me and it was completely welcoming and friendly. It's a great community. Everyone wants to help out. Everyone wants to invite you to these social rides. You're not just addicted to riding but more being in a setting with those people."
We all know Rai Benjamin from the many global medals, but this interview is not about any of that. This fall I saw that the Mt. Vernon native had taken up a new activity, one that is most usually reserved for retired distance runners like myself. We caught up last week because I was intrigued to hear more about how and why the American record holder at the 400m hurdles had become such a serious cyclist during the off-season.
You can read the full interview from The Lap Count newsletter here: https://citiusmag.com/articles/the-lap-count-rai-benjamin-interview-on-cycling
Hosted by: Kyle Merber – @kylemerber on Instagram
Guest: Rai Benjamin – @kingben on Instagram
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| 0:15.2 | All right, joining me right now is Olympic silver medalist. |
| 0:19.4 | Yada yada yada yada, rye benjamin. |
| 0:21.8 | And I guess I have to ask you a couple of questions about running just to kick things off, but that's not why I wanted to talk to you today. |
| 0:29.2 | So I guess, how's off season going? |
| 0:31.8 | But you know, December now. Yeah, it's December now. It's been a it's been great |
| 0:38.3 | Just really really in the thick of it to be honest with you so just try and keep my head down yeah going |
| 0:44.6 | do that so but it's been it's been pretty good so far you got a new training |
| 0:49.3 | partner yes how is having Fred around? |
| 0:53.2 | It's, you know, at first it was, it was exciting. |
| 0:59.4 | I mean, it still is exciting. |
| 1:00.7 | The reality is, I mean, we did, Fred and I did a workout together last week actually. |
| 1:09.7 | So that was a lot of fun, but reality is he's running a hundred and I'm running the |
| 1:16.8 | 400 hurdles so very rarely do we come together but I think more as a workout to start to progress throughout the entirety of the year and |
| 1:26.0 | we kind of stepped down and get that speed in. |
| 1:29.0 | We'll kind of get together here a little bit. |
| 1:31.5 | So you're officially a volunteer assistant on the team as well like |
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