Stories from Unbound XL with Will Loevner and Amanda Nauman

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In our third recap episode of Unbound Gravel, Payson sits down to talk with two racers from the Unbound XL, the 350 mile race, Will Loevner and Amanda Nauman. Will Loevner finished Unbound XL in second place, in spite of being younger than any of his competitors and a relative unknown at the start of the race. However, this achievement is only a fraction of the story. After crashing around mile 200 in the middle of the night, he rode the remaining 150 miles one-handed, with a broken hand...

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0:00.0	Since I had kept riding to the gas station, I was like, I guess I can keep riding still.
0:04.4	It immediately just got super hard and my hand was killing me.
0:08.0	And eventually I just like sat down on the side of the cow pasture and I just like cried my eyes out for a little bit there because I think I kind of came to the realization that I was going to finish this ride and I was determined to finish it,
0:22.1	but I also knew just like how hard it was going to be and how deep I was going to have to go
0:27.0	to actually do that. It all just kind of sunk in. It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:35.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:39.2	This is the world as it exists today.
0:44.1	Life moves pretty fast.
0:46.5	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:49.0	You could miss it.
0:52.1	Listen, we're talk about practice.
0:55.3	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:56.9	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:59.3	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:03.1	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:07.8	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:11.9	Hello, Adventure Stash family, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:15.5	I'm really excited about today's show.
1:17.0	We have lots more awesome storytelling, thanks to Amanda Nomman and Will Leavener.
1:22.4	Yes, these two did really well on the results sheet.
1:24.6	They both finished second at Unbound Excel, but that was purely coincidental. I wanted to talk to these two folks because they had some really awesome storytelling for
1:32.5	us. Amanda, for example, is a veteran of the 200 mile distance, but decided to upgrade to the 357 mile
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