Rosa Klöser the day after Unbound

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Going into Unbound this year as the defending champion, Rosa Klöser knew she was a marked woman. What she didn’t expect was that the usual crashes and chaos of gravel’s biggest event would start as soon as the first handful of miles. After a fall, a flat, and a wrong turn in the finish shoot, Rosa managed to walk away with fourth place. She caught up with Payson for a recovery spin the day after the race to talk about how her race went down, how she tried to combat the caginess of the c...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:07.0	I really try to even work in the group and show them, hey, I mean I've won this before and probably we're racing for fourth but I'm still like, you know, trying to put in an effort here so we're not having like a coffee ride out but yeah they didn't really want to collaborate and then at one point I was like guys like I got so mad so I just tried to attack them all the time.
0:42.8	Hey everyone and welcome back to the WithPace podcast.
0:46.1	We have a show with a bit of a different format today.
0:52.2	We recorded this episode during Rosa Closer's recovery spin the morning after Unbound Gravel.
0:53.2	We were both on bikes. I had little lav mics on our
0:56.4	our jerseys. So it's going to sound a little bit different, but has, I think, a really cool feel.
1:02.5	Basically, you get to go on Rosa Clozer's recovery spin with her after she finished fourth at Unbound Gravel.
1:10.2	Pretty amazing.
1:14.0	If you'd like to watch some of this conversation,
1:19.5	it's the final scene from our Ride with Pace Unbound YouTube episode,
1:22.4	which went up just a couple of days ago on my YouTube channel.
1:26.0	It's a bit of a beast of an episode at almost an hour long, but includes conversations with a similar feel with Sarah Sturm, the evening before her race.
1:32.2	One with Taylor Liddine the morning after his race and plenty of behind the scenes from the live TV broadcast and lots more.
1:42.3	It doesn't really feel like your typical kind of race event YouTube video.
1:47.5	It's almost more of like a feature-length film, honestly, beautifully shot and edited by
1:52.0	our friend Thomas Woodson.
1:53.9	We'll be releasing the video version of this conversation with Rosa in full in the next
2:00.3	few days as a separate YouTube video.
2:03.6	The current Unbound Ride with Pace episode just has basically 15 or not even like 10 minutes
2:10.1	of this conversation that you'll hear today.
2:12.9	But feel free to go check that out now.
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