S9 Ep202: Explore | Gravel at a crossroads

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this fourth and final episode in our mini-series of Explore we look at the gravel scene.

Gravel at a crossroads is partly inspired by some of the reaction to our feature on the so-called "first professional gravel race" in Veneto in episode one. Some took exception to the description, with one listener advising us that if we want to talk about gravel we should speak to some Americans!

So we have. In this episode we hear from Caley Fretz, editor of Cycling Tips and "groad" pioneer, and Ian Boswell, the former World Tour pro who won Unbound, arguably the world's biggest gravel race, this year.

We also speak to two riders at a crossroads in their careers: Tiffany Cromwell, who is combining Women's World Tour racing with gravel races, and Finley Newmark, a promising young rider who is turning full-time to gravel in 2022.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Explore by the cycling podcast powered by Super Sapiens.
0:16.6	Energy management for committed athletes and coaches.
0:21.3	Hello, my name is Richard Murrer, I'm with Lionel Bernie.
0:24.5	Hello Richard.
0:26.1	Hello Lionel, how are you?
0:27.6	I'm very good, thanks, yeah.
0:29.1	Have you been getting out on your bike this week?
0:32.5	Yes, of course, also on my on my turbo train this morning, but mountain bike, road bike,
0:40.5	quite a lot, but not Lionel, not my gravel bike because they don't have a gravel bike.
0:46.4	But that is what we're going to be talking about in this week's episode, isn't it?
0:51.0	It is indeed, Richard, yeah, these are all different flavors of cycling, but they are
0:55.8	all unmistakably the same activity.
0:59.4	There's the same sport, aren't they?
1:00.9	Even on a turbo train when you're not going anywhere, you're still cycling.
1:05.0	Certainly was, certainly was.
1:08.3	This episode of Explore the Fourth in our mini series is subtitled, or titled even,
1:14.3	the battle for the soul of gravel.
1:17.3	What do we mean by that?
1:18.4	Well, in the episode one of this series, we included a report from an event that was
1:24.3	built as the first professional gravel race.
1:28.0	Philippe Pazato organized it in Veneto.
1:31.2	I was there to witness it.
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