Ride With Pace: Zach Calton the morning after the Leadville 100

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The day after placing top 10 at the Leadville 100, Zach Calton joined Payson on a ride to talk about returning to form after the toughest season of his career. They discuss how it all started a year ago at the Breck Epic, his disastrous experience at the Cape Epic, and how he’s slowly found his footing again this season. Use code PACE20 for 20% your first order of LTH supplements and take the quiz to get a plan tailored to your needs. Watch: Ride With Pace - Ep 4 Leadville Watch this ep...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace and McKelvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:11.8	I had some, a freak mechanical one day.
0:15.4	Yep, I remember hearing about that.
0:16.9	Um, where he, like, I crashed and then he ran over my wheel,
0:21.1	which is propped up and just completely raked,
0:24.0	you know, tacoed it.
0:27.2	And then I had to walk like 14 miles in the rain
0:31.5	and my feet were like bleeding
0:33.0	because you can't walk 14 miles in mountain bike shoes.
0:37.5	Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.
0:41.3	Back to back.
0:42.9	Yesterday we released the Braden Lang ride-along interview.
0:47.4	And today we've got the Zach Carlton ride-along interview,
0:50.4	which was recorded the day after Leadville.
0:53.8	So Zach and I probably sound not quite as like acute haggard as Braden and I did.
1:01.2	But we were still very tired.
1:03.5	Just 24 hours after the Ludville 100.
1:07.0	I've had this interview on my mind for a good few weeks.
1:09.9	Actually, longer than that, good few months.
1:12.9	Zach is someone who I've raced with for a long, long time.
1:16.7	Always been the last few years a really consistent rider towards the front of these Grand Prix races.
1:24.7	But really up until the last month or so had this year-long 12-ish-plus month period where he
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