XX Factor: 1200 Miles on Blood Road

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Rusch is called the "Queen of Pain" for a reason. She's a three-time world champion in the 24-Hour Mountain Bike race, the 2011 National XC single-speed champion, and she's won the Leadville 100 mountain bike race four times. But a couple years ago, Rusch decided to take on an entirely new kind of pain. It would involve an epic ride along the Ho Chi Minh trail to find the crash site where her father, a U.S. Air Force pilot, was shot down when she was just three years old. Her emotional journey is the subject of a new documentary called Blood Road. Rusch met up with XX Factor host Florence Williams at the Telluride Mountainfilm festival to explain why this was the hardest ride of her life.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by REI Co-op.
0:06.0	They want to make the outdoors the largest level playing field on Earth.
0:10.0	They're kicking off more than a thousand new classes and events designed just for women.
0:16.0	They're also launching a series of all women's adventure travel programs.
0:20.0	The ladies want it and we're going to give them what they want.
0:24.0	Jen Scubiki has been guiding with REI for four years.
0:27.4	She leads trips through Utah, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon.
0:31.4	I think of like when I looked into Grand Canyon for the first time I just remember
0:36.1	being so absolutely odd and to see that in my guest's eyes,
0:44.4	when they get all sparkly-eyed
0:46.4	and they have no words.
0:48.6	It's just, I mean, it brings me back to my first time.
0:51.9	I have still never been to the Grand Canyon
0:54.7	and I have like a deep American guilt about it.
0:57.5	Oh my God, I'd love to take you.
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1:33.0	If it seems impossible, Rebecca Rush has probably tried it before.
1:41.0	She wants a riverboard it at the Grand Canyon, think boogie boarding, but down incredibly big technical
1:46.3	rapids, and she once completed the first female ascent of a route on El Capitan in Yosemite.
1:53.4	She also won the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race,
1:56.1	four times in a row, which earned her the moniker,
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