Rebecca Rusch, "The Queen of Pain"

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

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Over the course of a more than 30 year career, Rebecca Rusch has become one of the foremost athletes in ultra-endurance adventure sports. Whether rock climbing, white water rafting, gravel racing or bikepacking, Rebecca has demonstrated time and again that she is the undisputed “Queen of Pain.” Four time winner of the Leadville 100, 24 hour solo mountain biking world champion, Emmy Award winner, multi-time Eco Challenge competitor, author, public speaker, and philanthropist—the list of her ac...

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0:00.0	We can't save the world. You know, one human can't do all of it. We can't do it all. And it's too
0:07.3	exhausting to try. If you just like ride 100 miles every day as hard as you can and never take a
0:14.0	rest day, like that doesn't work. You know, you have to have balance. You have to take rest days.
0:20.6	Some days you go really hard.
0:21.9	Some days it's long and slow and easy. And the other days, you just do nothing. And I think our work
0:27.7	is similar in that if you don't pace yourself, you're not going to, you're not going to finish.
0:32.9	And you're just going to end up quitting. It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:39.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:43.3	This is the world as it exists today.
0:48.2	Life moves pretty fast.
0:50.6	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:53.1	You could miss it.
0:56.2	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:59.4	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:01.0	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:03.4	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:07.2	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:11.9	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:16.8	Paloon, welcome back to the show this week, as big an icon as they come in mountain biking, Rebecca Rush.
1:24.0	I've looked up to Rebecca for many years.
1:26.8	It's just in the last
1:27.6	couple of years, really, that we've become friends, and she's become more of a direct
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