Ride With Pace: HolySpiritOfGravel

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Leni Carrillo, a self-proclaimed "gravel normie" from San Antonio, Texas is the genius behind the HolySpiritofGravel meme account on Instagram. With her lighthearted and extremely specific takes on the world of gravel racing, she brings some much needed levity to a sport that can take itself pretty seriously. In doing so, she's earned a passionate fanbase. Payson caught up with Leni for a little spin and chat the day before the final round of the Life Time Grand Prix, the Big Sugar Classic, t...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:07.0	I'm a fan, I mean for sure.
0:15.0	And like, I don't think anything I've ever said has touched a nerve in terms of, I mean, you could
0:24.7	tell me if I'm the bully off base with this, but I don't think anything I've really said
0:28.7	has been offensive in any way or been insulting to anyone on a personal level, because I don't want to do that.
0:41.3	Hello everyone.
0:42.2	Welcome back to the show.
0:43.5	A very different feel podcast this week.
0:47.1	Lenny Carrillo, aka the Holy Spirit of Gravel, joins us.
0:52.3	She's been on quite the podcast tour as of late. I think really
0:57.9	captured the hearts and minds of the gravel racing world as someone who's found a way to poke
1:06.7	fun at our funny little corner of the sport while doing so in a mostly positive and lighthearted way, which is tough to do.
1:15.9	I'm a fan.
1:17.2	And so even though Lenny's done quite a few interviews in the last few months, we chorused her into doing a bit of a ride-along interview, one of our ride-along chats,
1:28.7	which is part of the Ride with Pace YouTube series we did this year.
1:34.7	Maybe a little bit of a lighthearted cleanse to last week's episode,
1:39.4	which generated a lot more conversation online than I expected.
1:44.9	I've spent quite a bit of the last week answering messages, comments, texts, WhatsApp messages.
1:54.0	Gosh, even the Spotify comments kind of blew up.
1:56.3	And it made me realize that it's really rare that this podcast kind of weighs in and has maybe
2:04.0	controversial takes.
2:06.1	I certainly enjoy that style podcast being a listener of that style podcast.
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