Sacha Hockenhull is a lifelong outdoor enthusiast, growing up racing on skis and snowboards in Alberta’s Bow Valley, he’s also an avid climber, trail runner and cyclist. Sacha is the event director and co-founder of the Crowsnest Pass 100 mountain bike and gravel races, taking place in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta on August 6th and 7th.

Cole Kessler is a professional cyclist from California, currently splitting his time between LA and Girona, Spain. Cole tell us about his quick transition from recreational mountain biker to professional road cyclist, joining the Israel - Premier Tech team, getting mentored by Chris Froome and much more.

Just how hard is climbing 20,000 metres in 1 week? As it turns out, it’s really hard. We discuss just how difficult this is (and how much time it takes), and contextualize Jack Ultra Cyclist’s incredible effort of keeping up that pace, for an entire year.

We’re rejoined by our friend Steve O’Shaughnessy, bikepack racer and host of the popular My Back 40 Podcast. Steve is taking on one of our ‘bucket list’ rides next month, riding the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route as part of the Tour Divide bikepacking race, from Banff, Alberta to the Mexico border. Steve joins us to talk about his race prep, gear, plans and his bike. We’re excited to have Steve back on later this summer for ‘part 2’, to hear all about this adventure of a lifetime.

We’re rejoined by our friend Steve O’Shaughnessy, bikepack racer and host of the popular My Back 40 Podcast. Steve is taking on one of our ‘bucket list’ rides next month, riding the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route as part of the Tour Divide bikepacking race, from Banff, Alberta to the Mexico border. Steve joins us to talk about his race prep, gear, plans and his bike. We’re excited to have Steve back on later this summer for ‘part 2’, to hear all about this adventure of a lifetime.

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We’re rejoined by our friend Steve O’Shaughnessy, host of the My Back 40 Podcast and bikepack racer. Steve will be embarking on an incredible journey in just 3 weeks, racing the Tour Divide. The Tour Divide is a self supported bikepacking race along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, from Banff, Canada to the Mexico border. Steve tell us about his race prep, gear and plans, and we are looking forward to having him back to hear about the completed adventure later this summer.

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Ryan Van Duzer is a cyclist, runner, adventurer and host of the popular Ryan Van Duzer YouTube channel. Ryan joins us from his home in Boulder, Colorado to tell us about his leap of faith into a career and life of adventure, building his YouTube channel, and his passions for the outdoors and inspiring others.

We discuss the challenge of attempting to climb 20,000 metres (over 65,000 feet) in one week, and we share some of the best lessons we’ve learned as middle aged athletes.

Jack Thompson is an ultra endurance cyclist, better known as Jack Ultra Cyclist (www.jackultracyclist.com). We originally hosted Jack back on episode 53, in which we delve further into Jack’s journey into ultra cycling. In this episode, we’re focused on Jack’s current incredible project: to cycle 1,000,000 metres of elevation gain in one year, and to raise 1,000,000 euros for mental health charities at the same time. As part of his plan to gain that insane amount of vertical, Jack is doing one full Everesting, every week, all year. We’ve also both accepted a challenge to join in Jack’s fundraising efforts, by attempting to climb 20,000 metres each in one week.

Alessandro (Alex) Pagliai is about to embark on a pedal powered trip around the world. That’s incredible on its own, but to make it that much more amazing, Alex is doing the entire trip on a Unicycle, and self supported. He is not just riding around the world, he’s going to ride all over it, planning to take roughly 5 years to complete. Alex joined us to tell us about his gear and his set up, and how we fell in love with unicycling just a few years ago. You can follow Alex’s journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1man1wheel/, YouTube: https://youtu.be/DQVhbn13i0A and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRVS9KEHY97/?utm_medium=copy_link