King of the Ride
by Ted King
Welcome to King of the Ride host hosted by Ted King. A professional road racer turned gravel, I’ve had success in both types of the sport, but more than anything the overall cycling community is what makes me happy. Slinging maple syrup with UnTapped, making videos, blogging, leading rides, hosting camps, and just enjoying life on two wheels, I now have the chance to chat with athletes, entrepreneurs, and all walks-of-life who love the bicycle. Check out www.iamtedking.com for a bit of everything, now hop on board and please enjoy the ride!
Episodes
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Episode 186: Savilia Blunk is Just Hitting Her Stride on the World Cup Circuit
Savilia Blunk has been successful her entire career, but as we dig into her history in the sport (and in life) it's clearly no coincidence. Naturally driven, she's earned national championships at every phase of her career, and it seems like she's just warming up! You can follow Savilia on her...
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Episode 185: Bond Almand Lives at Record Setting Pace
Bond Almand is a man on the move. He has a handful of world records of the ultra cycling variety. This summer he took the official NFL game ball to every single NFL stadium all in time for the season kickoff in Seattle. An 11,000 mile adventure all across the country. You can find out more,...
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Episode 184: Michael Creed and UCI World Championships Wrap-Up!
This is a post Worlds recap with Michael Creed, who was the sports director for Brandon McNulty's awesome win at the UCI World Championships in Montreal. We'll talk about this being USACycling's most successful worlds... ever! Taking home two gold medals with Ashlin Barry's and Brandon's. Stay...
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Episode 183: Michael Barry is a Cyclist, Through and Through
The thread of the bicycle is what ties all our guests together, here on King of the Ride podcast. The thread of the bicycle has been woven through virtually all aspects of Michael Barry's life. His father was a cyclist and made that his profession, his wife is an accomplished professional…
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Episode 182: Mount Washington Records Are Meant to be Broken
Records are meant to be broken and our two guests today will likely be holding on their titles for a while now. John Keller just took the outright record in the cycling event up the hallowed 7.6 mile climb to the highest peak in New England. Often called "one of the hardest climbs on the planet",...
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Episode 181: Alex McCormack is Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
With recent victory at the Colorado Trail Race, Alex McCormack generously lent us his time so we could pick his brain all about his recent entry and huge success in all kinds of ultra adventures. From Atlas Mountain to Hellenic Mountain to the lack of mountains at the Unbound XL or to the Rocky...
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Episode 180: Four Pro Athletes Walk into a Barn... Ryan Cochran-Siegle, Ben Ogden, Ian Boswell, and I Talk Nutrition
When Ryan Cochran-Siegle came home with his second Olympic medal in as many Olympic games and Ben Ogden earned two silver medals at Milan this winter, I knew I wanted to pick their brains. Better yet, Ian Boswell is friend and located nearby in Vermont, so we decided to have four pro athletes…
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Episode 179: Noah Dines Has (Probably) Skied a Lot More Than You
Noah Dines is the world record holder of most human powered vertical feet of skiing in a year. At more than 3.5 million feet skied, that's 124 times up Mount Everest from sea level, that's more than a the Tour de France if it were raced for the entire year rather than just three weeks, that's...
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Episode 178: Roger and Jenny Brown are Unbound's Power Couple
Roger Brown is the most frequented guest on King of the Ride podcast and HE'S BACK! With 5 episodes prior to this one, covering the thousand-plus miles he's ridden across the Flint Hills, what Roger lacks in training he makes up for with ignorance and enthusiasm. Here in 2026, however, it's not...
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Episode 177: Taylor Phinney is on a Comeback
Taylor Phinney, once one of the biggest names in American cycling is back! In this wide-ranging conversation, Ted and Taylor reconnect in Monterey, CA at Sea Otter shortly after Taylor’s announcement of a return to cycling with eyes on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Recorded in two parts; part…
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Episode 176: Jenna Rinehart is More than a Racer
Today’s guest is cyclist and business owner Jenna Rinehart. Her career is one of many chapters and she's still at the front of the pack, currently leading the Life Time Grand Prix wildcard standings. What makes Jenna especially unique is that she balances elite racing with ownership of a bike…
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Episode 175: Matej Mohoric with an eye on Paris-Roubaix
I wish I were neighbors with Matej Mohoric because I'd like nothing more than to hang out and talk bikes, talk not about bikes, just be able to share stories and insight with him. Heck, when we hung out last week, he showed me his videos of kids, talked about raising a family while in the World...
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Episode 174: George Hincapie is Changing American Cycling
It's Holy Week here in northern Europe and that means we're smack between Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. A few days out from Roubaix, I thought it would be a great time to launch this episode with George Hincapie as he talks his way through the history of the upstart American pro team…
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Episode 173: Michael Woods is Retired but He Isn't Finished
A recent World Tour retiree, Michael Woods is taking a stab at a whole variety of endurance sports. This Tour de France stage winner just took on "the Tour de France of ski-mo", has aspirations to race Ironman, has a sub-4 minute mile to his name, and still dabbles in bike riding... fairly often....
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Episode 172: Cam Jones, The Sky's the Limit
Cam Jones is on a tear. As the reigning Unbound champion and taking top honors at the Life Time Grand Prix in 2025, he's a man on a mission. This conversation comes at the tail end of Cam's summer back home in New Zealand, on the verge of his upcoming trip to North America to kickoff the 2026...
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Episode 171: Pete Stetina is "Feeding the Rat"
With the recent release of Pete's documentary "Feeding the Rat" I was eager to get some time with Pete to discuss the entire expanse of his career. We sat down in 2019 as he was a World Tour pro eyeing a segue to gravel and now seven years later he's expressed an interest in doing this his own…
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Episode 170: Bill Humphreys -- Author, Pioneer, Coach, Athlete -- is The Bike Guy
Bill Humphreys has lived an audacious life throughout his 81 years. The author of The Jersey Project and now fresh off the press, What If -- A Collection of True Stories from an Audacious Life, Bill spins many tales of life on two wheels and eighteen wheels. You can find out more about his book…
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Episode 169: Andy Ording is a Cycling Entrepreneur
Andy Ording might be a name known in the cycling world as the one time owner of Zipp. He was in cycling well before that time period and now continues with the love of the bicycle now well after Zipp was sold with his work at Fundracer. Andy is an innovator through and through and this cycling...
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Episode 168: Magdeleine Valliers is a World Champion!
Welcome UCI Women's Road World Champion, Magdeleine Vallieres! She won this title in Kigali, Rwanda in incredibly impressive fashion storming away from her breakaway companions as well as a hard charging group of favorites. Canada got their first elite world title and the entire world got a new...
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Episode 167: Nicolas Roche is a Gravel World Champion... among other accolades
He'll be the first to point out that it's masters world champion, but a win's a win and he has more gravel world championship titles than I do! Probably more than you too ;) Nicolas Roche has plenty of good stories to tell and lots of great insight from his years in pro cycling. As a World Tour...
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Episode 166: Miguel Crawford is Hosting Gravel Events (and now the Megahopper!) for Nearly 30 Years!
Miguel Crawford started hosting friends and then friends of friends on gravel rides throughout Sonoma County in the mid-1990s. Now he's just wrapped up his 28th year of hosting the Grasshopper Adventure Series, and best yet, he just wrapped up his first Megahopper. The Megahoppier is a route I...
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Episode 165: Michael Garrison is Making Waves in Modern Cycling
I don’t know whether to say thank you to Michael... or to say congratulations... or to apologize, because Michael, at 24 years old I think brings home the title as youngest guest ever on King or the Ride podcast. He’s packed plenty of life into those 24 years, as you’re going to hear about today....
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Episode 164: Eric Min Co-Founded Zwift and Revolutionized Cycling
There's a lot more to the Zwift story than "riding a bike in a virtual world". From the very beginning they're revolutionized cycling. Think of it, they're the single biggest entity to why we enjoy the women's Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift the week after the traditional Tour. More to the…
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Episode 163: John Day is Creating the Future of North American MTB Racing
John Day is the creator of Race Day XC, a new mountain bike race series in New England. And while everyone who likes bike racing thinks they can start a bike race or better yet, a bike racing series, John has the experience and chops to make it happen. See, in his previous line of work, John...
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Episode 162: John Gaston is the Most Interesting Person in Professional Cycling
And cycling isn't even the most interesting bit. John is a professional skier with aspirations to make his debut in the Olympics the same time as his sport makes its debut. That's right, skimo is on the verge of becoming an Olympic sport in 2026 and John is one of America's very best. But he…
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Episode 161: Kate Veronneau is Spearheading the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift
The bike racing action across France doesn't end when the men hit the Champs-Élysées. Heck, it's just getting warmed up for the fourth edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift! It's long overdue that women's cycling is hitting its stride right now and the fact that it's earning its due is...
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Episode 160: Dan Lloyd is a Jack of All Cycling Trades
Former Pro Tour professional cyclist, recent UCI gravel worlds qualifier, Global Cycling Network host, former team director, infrequent -- and perhaps former -- race commentator, Dan Lloyd has worn many hats in cycling. And now he has King of the Ride guest on his resume! Join my Kelly Brush…
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Episode 159: Florian Vermeersch is an Entertaining Chat and an Even Faster Cyclist
Florian Vermeersch is a Belgian cyclist with some very impressive palmares to his name. 2nd place in Paris-Roubaix as a 22 year old, a pair of silver medals at the UCI gravel world championships, a handful of wins, a whole bunch of podiums, not to mention he's often the right hand man to Tadej...
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Episode 158: Roger Brown is Chasing UNBOUND Glory
Our most frequent guest is back! Roger Brown brought a new training technique to UNBOUND XL and that was a mix of training, not training, waffling on whether he would do the event or not, a trip to Europe, and ultimately a successful go at the 359 mile UNBOUND XL! We'll talk all the usual song…
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Episode 157: Rob Britton Just Won UNBOUND XL
Rob Britton stole the show Saturday morning at UNBOUND. He not only passed Lachlan Morton after a 200km chase, but he forced the UNBOUND organizers to rethink their morning strategy because he crossed the line just before 9am, when there's traditionally a 50 mile roll out. He rode the nearly 360...
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Episode 156: Mads Würtz Schmidt -- On a Gravel TEAR
Mads Würtz Schmidt has national titles, world titles, and World Tour pro wins but going into 2025 he's taken his skillset to gravel off-road to gravel. He's already racking up wins taking two UCI wins, the prestigious Traka 200 title, and now he's here on North American soil to try his hand at...
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Episode 155: Emily Newsom -- Professional Cyclist
Bike racers don't come much friendlier than Emily. They also don't come much more fierce, much more driven, they generally don't juggle as much, their palmares are usually shorter and they probably didn't have a first career as a professional pianist. But this professional athlete is all of those...
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Episode 154: Levi Leipheimer on the Future of American Bike Racing
Fresh off hosting the 2nd annual Growler bike race and the 16th annual Levi's Gran Fondo, Levi sits down with Ted to talk about the state of cycling here in North America. The Growler has the crown of the highest purse of any one day race in the world... let that soak in for a second. Bigger than...
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Episode 153: How To Ride Fast with Jan Heine
Ted sits down with a return guest, Jan Heine of Rene Herse Cycles and Bicycle Quarterly, to discuss how to be fast in the modern age of cycling. "Get low and pedal faster", right? Well... there's a lot of truth to that, but there's a lot more nuance to it. Tire widths, frontal exposure, riding…
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Episode 152: Quoc Pham — Designer, Entrepreneur
Quoc Pham has the work ethic of a World Tour pro cyclist, the design savvy to walk a Parisian runway, and an upbringing that’s extremely unique in the cycling world as a refugee from Vietnam. He launched his eponymous shoe company, Quoc, back in 2009 which has seen many iterations from a dapper...
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Episode 151: Mega Midsouth FKT, Wildfires, and much more
Chase Wark and I set out on a pretty wild adventure on Sunday March 26, separately but for the same purpose. Purposes, rather. We were both seeking an FKT on the Mega Midsouth and in a much bigger picture, we were seeking to raise funds for the United Way of Payne County. This podcast is in...
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Episode 150: Maghalie Rochette -- Professional Cyclist (Semi-Pro Baker + Wood Worker)
Maghalie is a supremely successful professional cyclist with a lengthy list of palmares including nearly 50 UCI wins, World Cup podiums, and loads of national titles. She's in the midst of being a cyclocross racer with her heart and soul in the sport that is thriving in Belgium and is trying to...
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Episode 149: Race Around Rwanda Winning Recap!
Hello and welcome back to King of the Ride! Today is a bit of cross-pollination. I am drawing from a recent Gravel Kings podcast, where Laura, Stu, and I sit down to dissect Race Around Rwanda in a two part recap. But here we've distilled it down into one episode. So, please do yourself a favor…
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Episode 148: Dirk Friel -- Founder of TrainingPeaks
One of my favorite things to do in this podcast is to talk with the How I Built This style, namely to chat with the movers, shakers, and entrepreneurs to hear how they started their business. Amid being a professional athlete and then coach, Dirk started TrainingPeaks, which at this point has to…
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Episode 147: Cameron Wurf -- Professional Athlete (three times over)
You likely know Cam Wurf from his exploits on a bike. He set record after record in the Ironman World Championships on the bike leg, then stepped back into the UCI World Tour after a six-year hiatus and has been working his way into headlines since. He's an Ironman winning athlete, generally…
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Episode 146: Chase Wark -- Professional Cyclist
They don't get more genuine than Chase Wark. Maybe that's those northern midwest roots, now living in the hallowed Driftless region of Minnesota (...home to the US national gravel championships, as we'll discuss today). No stranger to big results, to gravel beef controversy, to aero gains, and...
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Episode 145: Christian Meier -- Cyclist, Ultrarunner, Entrepreneur
Finding a single word or short phrase that encompasses all that Christian does is easier said than done. Furthermore, I'm not sure in which order to put those three words, Cyclist, Ultrarunner, Entrepreneur, because over his life he juggles all three. Christian is a long time professional cyclist...
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Episode 144: Bond Almand -- A 13,595 Mile, Record Setting Ride
Bond Almand just rode a record setting pace from the northern tip of Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina. Over 75 absolutely wild days, Bond rode into ferocious headwinds, among throngs of cities, highways, oil fields, high mountains, great plains and desert, and so much more to make it to...
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Episode 143: Melisa Rollins -- Professional Cyclist
Melisa Rollins is our esteemed guest today. She’s been in the game for a handful of years, but she’s quickly turning heads, especially here in 2024. Earning the most acclaim was a smashing victory at Leadville, the hallowed 100 mile mountain bike race scraping across some of Colorado’s highest...
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Episode 142: Luke Lamperti -- Professional Cyclist
Luke immediately proved his worth stepping into the World Tour, coming third in his first ever race with Soudol Quick-Step having helped deliver his teammate to the victory. He finished 7th at Kuurne Brussels Kuurne, won a stage of Czech Tour, and has a boatload of results coming up through the...
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Episode 141: UCI Gravel Worlds with the Kings -- Laura and Ted Talk Belgian Gravel
In particular, "Brussels Gravel" is on topic today. There has been lots of chatter about the course itself. The less than enthusiastically dubbed bike path world championships. In this conversation, Laura and Ted break down their perspectives on the course itself and what Belgium has to offer…
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Episode 140: Jessie Diggins -- Olympic and World Champion
Jessie Diggins' name is synonymous with success for US cross country skiing. She broke the drought for all of American skiers as she and Kikkan Randall (episode 36) won the first gold medal for the United States in 2018. Jessie is a four time Olympic medalist, a six time world champion medalist…
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Episode 139: Sam Boardman -- Professional Cyclist & The Rookie Report-er
Smack in the middle of finding success (and the yellow jersey!) at the Green Mountain Stage Race, I wanted to sit down and talk with Sam Boardman about all things contemporary professional cycling. From his days at UCLA through the wild times at Wildlife Generation and Legion, right up through…
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Episode 138: Joris Nieuwenhuis -- Professional Cyclist
Welcome one of the world's very best at cyclocross (and pretty handy on all types of bikes), Joris Nieuwenhuis! Joris is a multi-time national champion of cyclocross for the Netherlands, he earned a silver medal at the 2023/24 UCI cyclocross world championships, he's raced the Tour de France…
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Episode 137: Adam Roberge -- Professional Gravel Racer (🇨🇦 National Champion!)
Adam Roberge is on a tear. By my count, he's won the past three consecutive races, four out of the past five, plus plenty more to his tally this year alone. Today we'll talk about all the things you might imagine, the two of us racing together and landing in identical spots on consecutive…
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About this show
Welcome to King of the Ride host hosted by Ted King. A professional road racer turned gravel, I’ve had success in both types of the sport, but more than anything the overall cycling community is what makes me happy. Slinging maple syrup with UnTapped, making videos, blogging, leading rides, hosting camps, and just enjoying life on two wheels, I now have the chance to chat with athletes, entrepreneurs, and all walks-of-life who love the bicycle. Check out www.iamtedking.com for a bit of everything, now hop on board and please enjoy the ride!
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Ted King