Nordic Trailblazer Radio

Jeg har testet løypen og Espen Vinje intervjuer meg om mine erfaringer og hvilke dekk som er perfekte for årets høydepunkt.

I denne episoden møter vi igjen Espen Vinje, rittarrangør av Unionsrittet. Unionsrittet er et to-dagers gravelritt over 350 km Moss til Karlstad som går 1-2.juli. Bli kjent med Unionsrittet.

Craig Evers from Australia was living several years as a pro rider in China. I met him back in 2016 during the Tour of Poyang Lake. After the race he decided to stay in China, got a Chinese team and girlfriend and was living the Eastern Dream. 

Craig is sharing his experience and how it is racing and riding in China.

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On todays episode we have Andy van Bergen, the founder of Everesting. Everesting is an amazing challenge where you ride up and down the same climb until you reach the elevation gain of Mount Everest.

Andy is explaining how it all came together, and some of the most amazing stories from the Everesting attempts around the world.
And last, but not the least how you can prepare and get ready for the bucket list challenge.

Espen Holm er helt unik. Han har en genuin interesse for å hjelpe andre og en faglig bakgrunn få andre kan vise til.

World Bicycle Relief is doing an amazing work changing lives though distributing bikes to the needy in rural areas in Africa. The bikes are important to help people with mobility to get to schools, markets, bring water, get to pharmacies and even hospitals. 

Juana got an incredible passion to make a better world and with World Bicycle Relief they are doing just that through bikes. 

I was raising money to them during my own 1012 km (36 hours) ride which we are briefly touching during this talk.

Her har du tankene mine i forkant av Kråkstad 24-timers, der jeg fortsatte å sykle i 36 timer.

Jeg skulle sykle 24 timer rundt Kråkstad, men det gikk så bra at jeg fortsatte til over 36 timer. Det ble ny norsk rekord på 24 timers, 36 timers og 1000km, samt ledelse i "kilometerkrigen."   

Maarten Peteeuw is a Belgium bringing cycling to the Nordics. He is living in Finland and is the race director of the Nordic Gravel, a series with six events for all kind of riders and the whole family. 

He shares his thought on the spirit of gravel, what's unique with it and why you should add gravel grinding in Finland to your bucket list. 

Covid-19 makes it challenging to be a organizer, but Maarten is looking ahead and hope to expand the Gravel series to all Nordic countries within the next years.

"What if you now and again decided to leave the safety of everyday life and forgot your self-imposed limits to test what you were truly capable of?" 

This is exactly what Christian did in an age of 44. He followed his hearth becoming a full time cyclist doing what he loves the most. Ride his bike. And he does it a lot.

Link: christianorry.com

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Update: Tim is no halfway on his virtual Race Across America on Zwift.

Starting late, becoming professional, riding all over the world, Timothy Rugg has some amazing stories and adventures from the bike.

One of the most amazing would be his several stage wins in Tour of Rwanda, but he got a lot more to his palmarés as you will hear about in this podcast. 

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Om du ikke har hørt om Zwift er det bare å bli kjent med det. Virtuell sykling har eksplodert og syklister over hele verden samles online for å sykle sammen fra egen kjellere og boder, flere blir så hektet at de heller setter seg foran skjermen enn å dra ut i solen.

I dag på Aeropodden møter vi Vidar Mehl.

Vidar er rytter for Kalas eSport Racing Team, kanskje landets beste Zwift-lag som konkurrerer store internasjonale ritt og denne våren har arrangert Kalas Cup der verdens beste eSport ryttere har møttes hver uke. Vidar er stort sett alltid i teten.

Vidar er regjerende Norgesmester i Zwift skal har nå begynt å samarbeide med 101percent training for å kunne gi råd for dem som ønsker å tips og vil bli bedre på Zwift.