Tim Johnson, cyclocross icon

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Tim Johnson is a former professional cyclist, most known for his multiple cyclocross national titles and world championship medals. His career also included a stint on a World Tour road team, where he had to face tough decisions at the height of the doping era that nearly made him quit the sport. Payson and Tim were teammates as part of a collection of Lululemon athletes for BC Bike Race, where Payson had the chance to better get to know an icon of the sport he’s looked up to for years. Betwe...

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0:00.0	I ended up on the phone Monday morning after the race is over, calling my team manager saying, that's it, I quit.
0:07.7	Take the second year of the contract and shove it.
0:09.6	I'm not going back.
0:10.8	I quit the sport.
0:12.0	And that was it.
0:14.2	It's showtime, everybody.
0:16.3	Showtime!
0:19.0	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:22.6	This is the world as it exists today.
0:27.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:29.9	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:32.5	You could miss it.
0:35.6	Listen, we're talk about practice.
0:38.8	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:40.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:42.6	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:46.5	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
0:51.3	This is the adventure stash with Payson McElvin.
0:56.0	Before I knew Tim Johnson, personally, I would have said that I look up to him as an athlete and a racer.
1:02.3	But what I didn't expect is after spending quite a bit of time with him now, he is near the top of the list of people I look up to, period, across the board.
1:15.0	He had an incredible, illustrious bike racing career, but the guy he is professionally off the bike,
1:24.0	the guy he is morally, period, is someone I really, really look up to.
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