Sahara Gravel stage 4 recap with Leoni Kolberg

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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To close out our Sahara Gravel coverage, Payson sat down with race volunteer Leoni Kolberg, who has spent the past four years riding around the world, often solo and sleeping in a tent. Last year, she rode across South America. Before that, she rode across Iran and Pakistan. Leoni sat down with Payson amongst the sand dunes to talk about what it’s like to live on the road for so long, dealing with the solitude, perfecting the art of reading books while riding, and why she’s decided to change ...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:11.7	This way of living outside is the most beautiful experience I've ever had.
0:16.5	Like I'm very grateful to have this experience of living so minimal, living always outside,
0:22.6	learning that the world can be my living room and my bedroom and my toilet and my shower.
0:27.6	The way I see the world or walk on this world is pretty...
0:32.6	I don't think about what could go wrong.
0:34.6	It just doesn't come to my mind.
0:36.6	I always just think of the best that could happen, basically.
0:42.5	Hello, doing a little intro today for the fourth and final stage of Sahara Gravel.
0:48.7	Hope you've enjoyed the last few days of interviews. Been a little bit more diverse in our guests this week
0:58.4	rather than just kind of doing stage winners and stuff.
1:02.4	I don't know, it's what felt right this year.
1:05.0	It felt fun to change it up a little bit,
1:07.1	and there's so many interesting stories at these races
1:08.8	that that's just what we wanted to go for.
1:12.6	And today's conversation is certainly in keeping with that too.
1:17.7	We had a race volunteer on Leonie who has an incredible story.
1:24.2	We actually knew from the day before the race that we wanted to have her on as a guest.
1:28.9	So I think you're really going to enjoy hearing from her in a minute. But first, I wanted to
1:33.2	run through the final overall standings and just kind of give a little bit of an impression of
1:38.5	what today was like and where we're recording this from. So Nicole and I are up on the same dune that we were
1:46.3	last year overlooking camp. You may hear some beats in the background. Maybe. Not sure if you
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