Ted King on bikepacking and the uncertainties of the 2021 season

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Ted King returns to the show to talk about the uncertainties of 2021, leaning into the Vermont winter weather, and why he isn’t stressing about perfect training conditions. He also tells Payson about his first bikepacking experience at the end of October when he won the 1,017 mile Arkansas High Country Race. They compare the battle scars they each sustained from their 2020 adventures, as well as their unshakable excitement to embark on even rougher bikepacking challenges in the future. They t...

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0:00.0	The race was a thousand, I think, 1,017 miles.
0:02.8	I remember thinking at about 950 miles, man, if Laura drove by me right now in a car,
0:08.6	I'd get in.
0:10.2	Like, I'd quit, which, you know, you hear about people who are in ultramarathons,
0:15.2	and they're running a 100-mile race, and they quit at mile 92.
0:18.5	And up to that point, I'm just like, what are you talking about?
0:20.6	Like, why when you just walk the next eight miles? Who cares? And I then like, light bulb moment,
0:26.0	I was like, I get it. I get why people quit in that state of depletion. It's showtime, everybody.
0:34.4	Showtime! You've been living in the dream world, Neil.
0:39.3	This is the world as it exists today.
0:44.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:47.3	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:50.3	You could miss it.
0:52.3	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:56.0	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:58.0	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:00.0	I see you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:04.0	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:08.0	This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome back to the show.
1:17.5	This week, podcast veteran, Ted King.
1:22.6	At one point, I was a Ted King fan, and then I became a Ted King rival as we started racing each other in
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