With Pace

Professional mountain biker Payson McElveen sits down with some of the biggest names in sports and adventure to get an inside look at what sets them apart. With no script, the casual conversations are as diverse as the guests, with topics ranging from harrowing tales of survival, to debates on current events, to everyday tips and tricks and everything in between. As Payson travels the world for his two-wheeled day job, listen in as he rubs shoulders with and learns from some of the most inspiring athletes, entrepreneurs, academics, and others as they chase and inspire greatness.

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Kate Courtney, Mountain Bike World Champion

Kate Courtney is the defending XCO Mountain Bike World Champion, many time national champion, and a Red Bull athlete. At just 23 years of age, Kate has already reached superstar status in a sport that often doesn't see athletes reach their peak until later. Tired from a long day of testing at a Red Bull training camp, Payson caught up with Kate as they sat on the floor of a hotel room. They talked about work ethic, gender equality and what we can do to promote further progress, the challenges of...

Apr 23, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, CrossFit Games Champion

Camille Leblanc-Bazinet is a Canadian professional CrossFit athlete, Red Bull athlete, entrepreneur, and health advocate. She was crowned "fittest on earth" in 2014 after winning that year's CrossFit Games. Payson sat down with Camille in Boulder, CO last winter to talk the incredible demands of her sport, the unexpected outcomes of success, how she learned to find work/life balance, why hormone replacement (doping) following a particularly demanding CrossFit Games was never an option, a few tip...

Apr 16, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Reggie Miller, hall of fame basketball player

Reggie Miller is a hall of fame basketball player and Olympic gold medalist, best known for his precision three-point shooting. Today he is a commentator for TNT, father, and passionate mountain bike rider. Reggie and Payson sit down in his oceanside Malibu home and chat about why you should never trash talk Michael Jordan, how growing up with the greatest female basketball player of all time was instrumental to his success, parenting, state of the union in the NBA, his heroes, what it was like ...

Apr 08, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Juli Furtado, mountain bike legend

Juli Furtado’s story is one of incredible triumph and unbelievable struggle. As one of the most hallowed names in cycling history, Juli pedaled her way to possibly the most dominant streak the sport has seen, in a mere six years winning multiple world titles in both downhill and cross-country, five national titles, three World Cup overalls, and a trip to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. But at 29 a Lupus diagnosis forced her to an early retirement. Just a handful of years prior while at the top of the...

Apr 08, 2019•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Chris Burkard, celebrity photographer and adventurer

Imagine you’re 22 years old and inside the walls of a Vladivostok prison cell. Your only human contact is a one-eyed Russian guard named Igor. With 3.4 million followers on Instagram, chances are good you see Chris Burkard’s images on your phone regularly--but do you know what goes in to capturing them? As one of the most highly regarded photographers in the world, Chris has made a name for himself by beautifully capturing moments from some of the wildest and most remote corners of the globe. An...

Apr 08, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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