Adventure Audio

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

We welcome back prolific athlete, writer and podcaster Selene Yeager. We get to catch up with Selene on a number of topics, including some of the top things she’s learned about aging athletes on her podcast, Hit Play Not Pause. You can check out much more of Selene’s work at https://www.seleneyeager.com.

Over the last several months, we’ve had a few questions about gravel bikes. Mostly variations of the same basic question; what is different about gravel bikes anyway, and do I need one/should I want one? We have our friend Jim Capra back on the podcast to discuss grave bikes and the nuances of their design compared to road and cyclocross bikes. Jim is a lifelong cyclist and the head coach at Tyler Hamilton Training (https://www.tylerhamiltontraining.com)

Alex Stieda is a retired professional cyclist from Canada. From a start in track cycling, Alex joined the 7-Eleven team and raced in the 1986 Tour de France. Remarkably, Alex became the first North American to wear the race leader’s Yellow Jersey, as well as holding the jerseys for the mountain, combination, intermediate sprints and best young rider classifications. Alex tells us about the lead up to the day he took yellow at the Tour, his cycling career, founding the Tour of Alberta and much more. Alex also updates us on his journey with prostate cancer and offers some important information on cancer screenings and early detection. To learn more, please visit www.stiedacycling.com

Tyler tell us about attending the Cyclocross World’s in Arkansas, and then we discuss our new event idea for this August, 3 Days of Gravel.

Adam Roberge is a multi-discipline professional cyclist from Quebec, Canada. At just 24 years old, Adam has been a 4 time national champion and exploded onto the gravel racing scene in 2021 with an overall win at Big Surgar Gravel and becoming the Belgian Waffle Ride Triple Crown of Gravel Champion. We discuss Adam’s incredible 2021 season, and what’s ahead for 2022 with his new team, Juke Box Cycling.

Ryan Correy was an adventure cyclist, ultra endurance athlete, author and the founder of Bikepack Canada. Ryan accomplished some unbelievable adventures, such as cycling a loop around Canada and the U.S., and cycling the Pam-American Highway (from Alaska at Argentina). He also competed in some of the most gruelling cycling races in the world, including RAAM and the Tour Divide. Ryan wrote a great book about his adventures (A Purpose Ridden), as well as a guidebook (Bikepacking in the Canadian Rockies), which you can find at https://www.bikepack.ca/store. Ryan was diagnosed with cancer in July 2017 and lost his battle the following spring. Ryan had an enormous impact on the cycling world in his time. This episode is us remembering Ryan, and we include a portion of a conversation we had together (along with Jim Capra) back in March of 2017.