Rebecca Rusch on Facing Challenges, Doing Good in the World
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Rusch is a 7-time World Champion in cycling, adventure racing, and cross country skiing events, a best-selling author, and a passionate community activist. She’s also an Emmy award winner for her documentary Blood Road which highlights the problem of unexploded ordnance in Laos that her Do Good foundation is working to solve.
In this episode we dive into the life equations Rebecca has figured out like “blood flow = brain flow” and “passion = payoff,” and how these apply both on and off the bike. Rebecca shares how she approaches challenges, talks about why gravel riding is so attractive to all types of riders, and tells us about what her foundation is doing to help others around the world.
We also ask Rebecca to weigh in on why women’s performance in ultra endurance events is more evenly matched with men than in other sports, and what it’s like riding for her new sponsor, Liv/Giant.
Learn more about the Be Good foundation and keep up with Rebecca at rebeccarusch.com
This episode is sponsored by Boeshield (boeshield.com), makers of Boeshield T-9, a lube designed to waterproof your bike chain, lubricate cables, and prevent rust with its unique and effective all-in-one formula. This month Boeshield is giving away a free prize pack to a lucky listener! Visit singletracks.com/Boeshield to enter — open to anyone the contiguous United States, no purchase necessary.
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| 1:19.2 | the links in the show notes. Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, |
| 1:25.6 | and today my guest is Rebecca Rush. |
| 1:28.1 | Rebecca is a seven-time world champion in cycling, adventure racing, and cross-country skiing events. |
| 1:34.7 | She's a best-selling author and a passionate community activist. |
| 1:38.5 | She's also an Emmy Award winner for her documentary Blood Road, which highlights the problem of unexploded ordinance |
| 1:45.6 | and Laos and her Do Good Foundation, which is working to solve that. Thanks for joining us, Rebecca. |
| 1:52.8 | Thank you very much. Yeah, thanks for having me. So you got your start in adventure racing, and you |
| 1:58.8 | actually have a national and international titles in other events like |
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