Corrine Leistikow Started Endurance Bikepacking At 50 Years Old…Ep177

Corrine Leistikow is a 65 year old family physician living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her passion is being physically active outdoors. She started doing endurance biking and skiing events at age 50, when her children became teenagers. She continues to push her limits as an older athlete.

Corrine tells host Elizabeth Emery about her adventures, pushing ourselves as older athletes, staying, why more older women don’t do endurance bikepacking, strength training, her own severe stomach issues while racing, and hostess donuts.

Corrine’s first event was the Fireweed 200. Since then she has done the Leadville 100 mountain bike race, White Mountain 100 -- twice on skis and once on a fat bike, the Smoke N Fire 400, BC Epic 100, Tour Divide (a 2700-mile bikepacking race from Banff, Canada to the Mexico Border in New Mexico), the 700 mile Trans South Dakota, and 700 mile Cross Washington. And she has tried twice to finish the 350 mile Unbound Gravel XL.

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