Special Edition: Racing the Haute Route Alps - Coverage Preview
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
We have a special abbreviated podcast this week as Matt prepares for his journey to tackle the Haute Route Alps.
In this episode, Matt provides a quick look at our daily coverage of his progress through the Haute Route and what we can expect.
Beginning August 20th, Matt will provide daily field reports sharing his observations and insights as he and his two brothers navigate 7 days of some of the toughest cycling in the world.
Matt will bring us coverage from the road as he makes his way across 800 kilometers, and more than 70,000 feet of climbing through the heart of the alps.
Brief daily reports will highlight his challenges and choices around fueling, hydration, pacing, and overcoming adversity, along with all the lessons gleaned from a multi-day event.
We encourage you to follow along on our social media platforms. Videos will be posted daily on Youtube, but you can keep up with the adventure on Facebook and Instagram as he relays photos and stories along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:11.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:15.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:34.5 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:38.3 | And this week, yes, it's a little bit different. Not only will this be the shortest Purple Patch podcast ever, |
| 0:42.3 | you can probably tell I'm not in the studio in San Francisco. |
| 0:46.3 | Yes, I'm in my backyard getting ready to launch off on the plane and head to Europe. |
| 0:52.3 | This is the official kickoff of our A-root series. We are going to be |
| 0:56.5 | doing something a little bit different over the coming days. Once I'm in Europe, getting ready to |
| 1:01.4 | take on the alt-route, the 800-kilometer challenge through the Alps with my two brothers and a few |
| 1:07.2 | friends. We are going to be doing a daily show. |
| 1:11.0 | Yes, it's only going to be five or ten minutes in duration, |
| 1:13.4 | but we hope to bring you lots of fun, lots of stories, |
| 1:17.4 | insights and interviews with all of the important characters on the field, |
| 1:21.6 | and of course, some of the lessons as I navigate through suffer a lot, I'm sure, |
| 1:27.2 | around fueling, hydration, pacing, |
| 1:29.6 | overcoming adversity, whatever it might be. You might ask, am I nervous? Of course I'm nervous. |
| 1:35.2 | It's going to be really freaking hard. But also, I hope it's going to be an experience of a lifetime. |
| 1:41.3 | So you don't need to take any action. You can follow along with the show via |
| 1:44.8 | our YouTube channel. That's where we're going to be posting a lot of videos, a lot of photographs |
| 1:50.2 | and components like that. Or of course, you can just listen on the show on your regular podcast |
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