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Hey everybody and welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Aaron and today we're here with a very

special guest Eddie O'Day.

So many mountain bikers aspire to spending a night or two out on the trail with nothing but the items they can carry on their bikes.

But a few of us can imagine bikepacking for weeks at a time, let alone doing that at a race pace day and night.

Eddie O'Day is a professional endurance mountain bike racer and holds course records

and the stage coach 400, the Transnortga, and the Hurricane 300 ultra endurance mountain bike races.

This year, he completed the tour divide and raised nearly $20,000 for the Georgia State

High School Racing League along the way. So thanks for

joining us, Eddie. Oh, thank you. Appreciate that introduction. Yeah, you're welcome. So tell us a little bit

about your background. How did you get started in riding and racing? Wow, that goes back a little ways.

I got a bike in, I think, 97, just kind of doing things on my own for a while and then eventually

hooked up with the swamp club down in the Tampa area.

And they introduced me to cross-country racing, which I was okay yet.

Didn't show any signs of greatness there, but I did notice that the longer the race went, the better I did.

So I definitely shifted my focus that way. So when did notice that the longer the race went, the better I did. So I definitely shifted my

focus that way. So when did that happen? When did you realize that the endurance, the stuff, was more

your cup of tea? I think I did my first cross-country race in 2000. So it was probably 2001,

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