Ride With Pace: Ellen Campbell before Chequamegon

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, we’re bringing you Payson’s ride-along chat with Ellen Campbell the day before Chequamegon. They talk about how her Grand Prix season is going so far, what it’s like to be sitting just outside the top 10 going into the final two rounds of the series, and her gear choices for the race. They also talk about her Ride Dirt program, a series of workshops in which she teaches women bike maintenance and handling skills. Keep up with Ellen at @ellen.m.campbell Use code PAYSON15...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin, and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:12.3	I think for a lot of us that have done this series and also like this long of a season,
0:18.8	you end up, I think it's just natural to be like
0:22.5	kind of over it by the end and I think yeah it's gonna be great for us to like it's good for me
0:31.6	to have like a little bit of fire at the end of a piece of like this.
0:42.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the show.
0:45.0	Today we have one of our ride-along episodes,
0:46.5	so it'll sound a little bit different because it was recorded outside on bikes
0:49.8	the day before the Schwamigan 40 Lifetime Grand Prix.
0:53.9	I caught up with Ellen Campbell,
0:56.2	who's been a part of the Grand Prix for all four years now.
1:01.2	And I kind of wanted to check in with her on what it's like to be part of all four years the Grand Prix.
1:08.7	She's right on the cusp of breaking into that top 10 overall. So I wanted to
1:13.7	get a little read and update on, um, what that's been like for her this season. Um, I also
1:20.3	wanted to learn more about her ride dirt series, which is a series of women's clinics, mostly
1:25.9	centered around, uh, bike care and maintenance and mechanic
1:29.9	know-how, which is really, really cool.
1:32.4	And kind of on that note, I figured we'd take the opportunity to pick her brain about some
1:36.3	race day or event day tips for being prepared when it comes to the tech side of things.
1:44.8	This was a really fun chat, and you can watch it on YouTube, on our YouTube channel or
1:50.1	on Spotify as well.
1:52.1	You just have to click the little watch option instead of listen.
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