Alex Pavon on Risk and Reward in Professional Mountain Biking

Running On Om

English - March 10, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 473 ratings
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Alex Pavon is a downhill skier turned professional mountain biker. She retired from competitive skiing in 2013 and found her way to enduro racing. She lives in Flagstaff Arizona and works as an emergency room EMT. This conversation covers a range of topics, including the following:

Alex’s skiing background and the factors that led her to retiring from competitive racingHow she got started in mountain bikingHer favourite places to travel and raceHer experience as a woman in mountain bikingNavigating risk and rewardWorking as an EMT and her future aspirationsThe fragility of life and her perspective working in the EMT

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