Latest Adventuring Podcast Episodes
Ep. 178 ~ Patrick's AZT 300 Attempt
Bikes or Death - April 22, 2024 17:24 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsSince my youth I've had a passion and love for the outdoors. While all wilderness landscapes appeal to me in their own unique way, desert landscapes have always been my favorite. So it's no surprise that when I got into bikepacking and found out about the AZT it quickly ascended to the top of ...
Ep. 177 ~ Meaghan Hackinen, DOOM 3rd Overall
Bikes or Death - April 08, 2024 18:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsMeaghan Hackinen is your 2024 DOOM female winner and 3rd place overall. On day one she skipped a critical resupply point and found herself leading the field for a good part of the day. Dexter Kopas would eventually catch her and go on to take the win. Overall, it made for some exciting dot watc...
Ep. 176 ~ John Schilling, AZT Race Director
Bikes or Death - March 07, 2024 20:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsOn today's episode John Schilling, AZT Race Director, is here to talk all things AZT. He became the race director in 2019 when Scott Morris passed the torch after 14 years of creating and overseeing the race. John is no stranger to the AZT. He first attempted it in 2012 and completed it in 2013...
Ep. 175 ~ Jenny Tough, Adventure Athlete & Writer
Bikes or Death - February 29, 2024 21:56 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsJenny Tough is one of the most impressive adventure athletes I've had the pleasure of chatting with. Her accomplishments in sports and writing are truly inspirational and mesmerizing. She is an ultra runner and bikepacker with numerous accomplishments to her name. Among her accomplishments, in ...
Ep. 174 ~ East Texas Showdown Preview for 2024
Bikes or Death - February 23, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsThe East Texas Showdown is in its fourth year and it's our biggest one yet. With 250+ riders from all over the world decending on East Texas we wanted to produce an episode to help you have a successful weekend in the woods. We surveyed all the riders participating in ETS 2024 and I brought...
Ep. 173 ~ Lewis Ciddor, 3rd Place at Tour Te Waipounamu
Bikes or Death - February 08, 2024 19:17 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsToday we are catching up with Lewis Ciddor after his impressive 3rd place finish at Tour Te Waipounamu. Many of you will be familiar with Lewis. He won the Tour Divide in 2018 and was the host of the Overland Archive Podcast for many years. Lewis was on the show in Aug. of 2020 for Ep. 51. Since...
Ep. 172 ~ Dogpacking with John & Mira
Bikes or Death - January 25, 2024 19:53 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsJohn and Mira are a bikepacking duo who were the first to complete the Tour Divide Race as a human and dog team in 2023. They also emBARKed on a world tour in 2023 with the goal of dogpacking all 7 continents of the world. A feat that is so big that if you think about it too much it seems almost...
Ep. 171 ~ Angus Morton, filming "The Divide"
Bikes or Death - January 17, 2024 22:37 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsOn today's episode, I sit down with Angus Morton to chat about his latest film: The Divide. This masterpiece follows Angus's brother, Lachlan Morton, on his 2023 ITT of the Tour Divide. The Divide masterfully captures Lochlan's Journey, the landscape, and the beauty and challenges along the w...
Ep. 170 ~ Sofiane Sehili, "Where Do I Go From Here?"
Bikes or Death - January 10, 2024 22:17 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsAt the end of the year Sofiane made a post on social media that caught my eye. The first line read, “So where do I go from here?”. Sofiane is arguably the best ultra bikepack racer in the world. A position that he earned by winning some of the most grueling races in bikepacking, in some cases mu...
Ep. 169 ~ Part 3: Ask Me Anything, with Patrick & Natalie
Bikes or Death - December 29, 2023 20:19 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsIn the final installment Patrick answers listener questions and he gets his girlfriend, Natalie, to ask your questions. We got a ton of questions, so this episode will be sure to make the "long live long-form" listeners very happy. Thanks for riding bikes with us in 2023. After five years of p...
Ep. 169 ~ Part 2: Meet the Team
Bikes or Death - December 28, 2023 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsBikes or Death is growing and I’ve hired some people to help. In this episode I sit down with Mckensie Barney, Ariel Marlowe, and Ben Crannell, to introduce you to the people that help make what Bikes or Death does a reality.
Ep. 169 ~ Part 1: BoD Awards + 2024 Goals
Bikes or Death - December 27, 2023 19:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsIt's that time again. Time to look back at a year of podcasting, give some awards, and make some promises for next year that I'm sure to break a few :) This is the last episode of the year, and it's a doozie. Originally intended to be one episode, I've broken into 3 parts due to its length. So...
Ep. 168 ~ Hannah Simon, Bikepacking Triple Crown Completed!
Bikes or Death - November 28, 2023 14:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsFor the final episode in this series, we catch up with Hannah Simon after finishing 3rd at the Arizona Trail Race last month. The AZT was the last race in a three race series dubbed the Bikepacking Triple Crown. Prior to that she tied for 3rd at Tour Divide in June, followed by a 6th place fini...
Ep. 167 ~ Kurt Refsnider, Continental Divide Trail by Bike
Bikes or Death - November 08, 2023 22:03 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsKurt Refsnider just became one of only a handful of people to have ever successfully traversed the Continental Divide Trail by bike. The trail is 3,300 miles long and spans the length of the United States along the Continental Divide. In many ways it's similar to the popular Great Divide Mount...
Ep. 166 ~ Alex Schultz, Arizona Trail Race Winner & New FKT
Bikes or Death - November 02, 2023 20:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsMy guest today is the winner of this years Arizona Trail Race 800, Alex Schultz. Alex is no stranger to bikepack racing or the AZT. In 2019 he entered his first bikepacking race, the Colorado Trail Race, and was hooked! In 2022 he entered the AZT 300 and won it. This year he came back to take on...
Ep. 165 ~ Patrick & Natalie, Ozark Rando 120
Bikes or Death - October 25, 2023 18:29 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsLast month Natalie and I took on the Ozark Rando 120. This is a new event by Ozark Gravel Cyclist and hosted by Experience Fayetteville. As the name suggests, the format of this ride is a Randonneur -a non-competitive long-distance unsupported endurance cycling event. I used this ride as par...
Ep. 164 ~ Patrick & Ariel, Central Texas Brokedown
Bikes or Death - October 10, 2023 02:05 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsAfter I scouted the Central Texas Showdown route by car it was time to ride the damn thing. Last time I did an ITT of the ETS route my editor, Ben Crannel, joined me, but aside from the start and finish, we never saw each other. That experience taught me how much different an ITT is vs a grou...
Ep. 163 ~ Jay Petervary, Unearthed Interrupted
Bikes or Death - September 27, 2023 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsUltra-endurance and bikepacking legend, Jay Petervary set out on his solo and unsupported FKT attempt of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route which he called “Great Divide Ride Unearthed”. Over 2,000 miles into his ride he was struck by a motorist. Suffering multiple series injuries, Jay’s resil...
Ep. 162 ~ Hannah Simon, Bikepacking the Triple Crown, Part 3
Bikes or Death - September 22, 2023 17:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsBy now I'm sure you are familiar with Hannah and her quest to take on the Bikepacking Triple Crown. She's agreed to share her journey with us at each stage along the way. So far she's been able to complete the first two races, the Tour Divide and Colorado Trail Race. In this episode we follow up...
Ep. 161 ~ Phillip Crosby, aka "Weston" from To Shake the Sleeping Self
Bikes or Death - September 13, 2023 16:59 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsTen years ago Phillip Crosby and Jedidiah Jenkins set out on a bike trip that started in Oregon and traversed Central and South America and ended in Patagonia. Jedidiah, was an aspiring author at the time and was on the trip to have an experience worth writing about as he grappled with his sexua...
Ep. 160 ~ Katya Rakhmatulina, Colorado Trail Race Winner & FKT
Bikes or Death - September 07, 2023 19:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsKatya Rakhmatulina just won the 2023 Colorado Trail Race and set a new FKT in the process. With a time of 5d 1h 53m she beat the previous time of 6d 1h 34m set by Alexandera Houchin in 2019. Prior to this she placed Second at this years Tour Divide behind Lael Wilcox. For a full writeup please...
Ep. 159 ~ Miron Golfman, 2023 Colorado Trail Winner
Bikes or Death - August 30, 2023 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsIn 2022 Miron Golfman set a new FKT on the Baja Divide. Then he set his sites on an even bigger challenge in 2023 by attempting to race the Iditarod Invitational, the Tour Divide, Colorado Trail, and the Arizona Trail Race, all in a calendar year. A feat that I've never heard of anyone attemptin...
Ep. 158 ~ Payson McElveen
Bikes or Death - August 24, 2023 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsPayson McElveen probably needs no introduction. Among many of his achievements he is a Red Bull Athlete, 2x Marathon National Champion, 2x MidSouth Campion, and he is the host of the popular Adventure Stache Podcast. He’s also a wizard at production and social media which has added to his visibi...
Ep. 157 ~ McKenzie Barney, Cycling the World Solo
Bikes or Death - August 16, 2023 20:08 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsLast month McKenzie Barney peddled her bike into Colombia, the last country in her Cycle the World project that started years before. In total McKenzie cycled 18,000 miles, through 28 countries and 5 continents, and most of it was solo. Her travels would take her through Africa, South America, A...
Ep. 156 ~ James Collins, Central Texas Showdown ITT
Bikes or Death - August 09, 2023 21:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsThis June James Collins became the first person to attempt the new Central Texas Showdown route as an ITT. James is a 3 time veteran of the East Texas Showdown and will be leaving Texas before the CTS group start this October. Not wanting to miss out on this new route in his backyard, he decide...
Ep. 155 ~ Hannah Simon checks the first box in her Triple Crown attempt with a 3rd place finish at Tour Divide
Bikes or Death - July 27, 2023 20:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsIn todays episode we catch up with Hannah Simon two weeks after finishing tied for 3rd on the Tour Divide Race. If you've been following along you'll know that Hannah has committed to attempting the bikepacking Triple Crown, which is the Tour Divide, Colorado Trail, and Arizona Trail, all in a ...
Ep. 154 ~ GRUSK w/ Maggie Livelsberger & Chris Joice
Bikes or Death - July 20, 2023 16:53 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsGRUSK or Grave Ride up Spruce Knob is a bike race that has been taking place in West Virgina since 2016. It’s evolved over the years and now offers distances from 25 miles up to 260 miles. Each route features a long out and back up Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virgina at 4,863’. ...
153 ~ Chris Burkard, Tour Divide 2023
Bikes or Death - July 12, 2023 19:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsChris Burkard is a well known photographer and storyteller who has brought his passion for life and his dedication to be successful to the endurance cycling world. The results are hard to argue with. In 2019 he set a world record of the WOW Cyclothon in Iceland traveling 844 miles in 52h 36m 1...
Ep. 152 ~ Ulrich Bartholmoes "Uba" the 2023 Tour Divide Winner
Bikes or Death - June 24, 2023 23:38 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsYesterday Ulrich Bartholmoes aka "Uba" finished the 2023 Tour Divide in first place with a time of 14d 2h 23m. For much of the race he was head of the record setting pace of Mike Hall. In the end he would finish only 4.5 hours behind that record setting run. Considering the rain, mud, and win...
Ep. 151 ~ Jesse Turner with Slow Southern Steel bikes
Bikes or Death - June 15, 2023 19:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 362 ratingsThis week we are talking with Jesse Turner who is the custom bike maker and artist behind Slow Southern Steel based out of Fayetteville, AR. Jesse started this new company less than a year ago and I've been following with interest since the beginning. I love to showcase and support people who ...
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