November 14, 2025 • 25 mins
We sit down with Christopher Blevins in Bentonville to unpack The 2025 racing season, which finished with Christopher at the top of the sport claiming both overall titles (XCC & XCO) in the World Cup MTB. If you’re curious about sustainable high performance, athlete creativity, and the community that keeps joy in the grind, this conversation delivers.
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Nat Ross (00:10):
Welcome to the Visit Bendville Podcast, a new
American town.
I'm your host, Nat Ross, withan extra special edition of our
bike podcast.
We have Christopher Blevins,Team USA, who has secured the
overall UCI mountain bike shorttrack as well as cross-country
titles in our studio here indowntown Bentonville.
(00:33):
Christopher Blevins, welcomeback to Bentonville.
What a long season.
What an incredible ride.
So I know you're uh just freshoff the plane, landed on the
tarmac.
You're in Haxton Studios inBentonville, Arkansas, downtown
right now.
Let's talk about your raceseason.
So you just ended the seasonand boy did you end it on a
(00:54):
high.
So fill us in on the verybeginning of how you got there,
which is the support, which isyour family, your network.
Christopher Blevins (01:01):
Yeah.
Well, first of all, it's greatto be back.
Uh definitely feels a bit likehome, you know, spending more
and more time here.
And uh I had my just you know,in Europe, you know, you don't
get like just real good dripcoffee.
And I just was so glad to sitwith my Onyx this morning.
And and uh yeah, this isobviously a very busy week.
Um, the sugar weeks week inbetween.
(01:23):
So so many people to see, andI'm just really happy to be
here.
Um, but yeah, no, this season,man, it's a great question to
just start off uh the supportbecause yeah, it just stacks on
top of each other for uh uh uhof itself on for years, you
know.
And the first people tomention, obviously, are my
parents.
Um my mom still, I have toremind her that uh this is what
(01:45):
I do and have done since I wasfive years old because she gets
so nervous every single race.
But that's just because she,you know, she's a mom.
And she was in Lake Placid.
Um, and I was so grateful toyeah, have her there.
She's been at a lot of my bigraces, she counts herself as a
lucky charm.
My sister as well.
And then my dad, you know,who's been my right-hand man in
the sport.
He literally, as a BMX racer atage five, would place me in the
(02:08):
gate, catch me at the finishbecause I couldn't clip out at
that point.
So, and then I mean, there'llso many people I can't mention,
you know, uh with with the time,but uh the team I'll mention
specialized, and uh I I've saidthis, you know, in a lot of
interviews recently that peopleuse the word family when they
(02:28):
talk about kind of business oror sports sometimes, and it and
it kind of feels clunky.
And I don't like using thatword if it's not really like
that, but without a doubt, I cansay that this team is my
family.
And I spend so much time withthis band of you know 20 people
from you know, I don't know, 10,12 different countries, and um
the boys of my, you know, thatI've we've had so many, so much
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success with um are likebrothers to me.
Um my coach Mike Postumus isthe performance manager, and
there's just been an immenseamount of support from really
the whole brand and and thewhole team.
Um, and then there's a couplepeople uh to thank from this
unique approach that I've reallyblended this year, which is
really applying mindfulness tobike racing.
Um Patrick Sweeney, who's who'smy teacher and and and uh has
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really helped me understand howyou know, in the last six years,
mindfulness and really bikeracing can be like a martial
art, you know, like we have a wehave a view of sports in the
Western world that kind ofnegates that and doesn't think
that there's like this innergame happening all the time, but
that's what it's felt like thisyear.
So he's been hugely supportive.
(03:34):
Um yeah, I could ramble on thisone, but I've got I'm I'm
really just a product of all thesupport um from USA Cycling,
Durango, Colorado, San LuisObispo, Bentonville.
I mean, it's just there's somany people, um, and I feel so
grateful to really go for itbecause I have that support.
Nat Ross (03:50):
Sure.
And then just real quick, canyou highlight um specialized
factory racing and what type ofuh infrastructure that would be
for the general public?
So the factory element, similarto NASCAR, you guys, there's a
hole behind the scenes movingbehind you.
You've got all these elementsand pieces that you're doing,
but the World Cup overseas andnot just Europe, but the amount
(04:11):
of travel and the logistics.
Um, so that's what you mean bythe specialized factory racing
team and that part.
Christopher Blevins (04:17):
Yeah, we are a thousand percent a
traveling circus, you know, andum there's so much stuff to
bring around.
There's so many moving parts,and um, there's so much downtime
with your people, you know?
Yeah.
Like you in a sport like this,um, you don't you don't really,
yeah, you don't go to work fromnine to five and then go home.
You're with your people theentire time, for better or
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worse.
But with this team, it's reallymostly for the better.
Um, but yeah, I don't have tolift a finger when I when I show
up with the team.
I have so many people, youknow, we got a great chef,
people taking care of ourbodies, our bikes.
So, um, and then just goodfriends.
Yeah, it's that simple.
But there's there's a wholeperformance element to it that
the whole machinery has feltflawless this year, uh, and
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natural, like really organic.
Like, you know, we're not doinganything crazy from my
perspective, but things areworking.
We're developing like productsbetter than we ever have with
specialized um from the RD side,and then we know what works, we
know the process, um, and we'vejust stuck to it, and I think
that's why we succeeded.
Nat Ross (05:18):
You're developing bikes for us as we speak in your
entire team, so it's not justabout the podiums, but it's
about the product that you guysare putting through the ringer,
that the mechanics are pullingoff your bikes at night, going
through sending them back to themotherships for testing and
just digging in for intel.
Christopher Blevins (05:33):
Yeah, I I could definitely say the Epic
Eight, you know, that we'reracing this year.
First of all, I I think it'spretty safe to say it's the best
bike on the circuit, and itwithout a doubt gives us an
advantage.
And I don't I think peoplewould have a hard argument to go
against that.
But the tires we're racing, thewheels, the way the tires and
the wheels link together, thesuspension, the flight
attendant, and the wholegeometry of the frame.
(05:54):
Like I, you know, we've been areal active part in that whole
process.
And I think that's that cuttingedge that like has been so fun
to really progress the sport andbuild those relationships.
And yeah, it's cool, it'sreally cool.
So I'm not much of a nerd withproduct, but like I'm yeah,
without I'm so stoked on the waythat the factory team is
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operating, you know, on thisfront.
Nat Ross (06:17):
Um, love it that actually in town right now, you
have some team members andformer colleagues and folks that
have gone through Nica, DurangoDevo.
Um, because like you mentioned,this is basically like the Sea
Otter of the beginning of theseason.
We're in Bentonville, we're atthe end of the season, book
capped by the mountain bikerace, which was Sunday, and the
gravel race, which last year youwere in the sprint finish for.
(06:38):
And guess what?
What happened last year?
Little sugar?
Christopher Blevins (06:42):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
End of the year there, yeah.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, there are so manypeople that I could, you know,
just stumble around the thesquare and see, you know, a
bunch of old friends, um, youknow, people that I could have
an hour-long chat with.
So that's kind of the nature ofthis week.
Um, there's so many people Iwant to see and only so much
time, but it's great.
(07:02):
It's it's really it's theperfect place to end the year
like this.
And uh yeah, although it'd befun.
Part of me is like, yeah, Ishould just race big sugar.
Uh I uh yeah, I'm gonna havemore fun just hanging out.
So yeah.
Weight off my shoulders.
Nat Ross (07:16):
Well, one thing uh I remember watching you at
Leadville because you did thesupport piece there, and I I
think that's pretty invigoratingfor you to be able to not just
give back but see it in motionwithout being a part of it and
know you weren't even worriedabout being plugged in and
racing.
You were there for that day,you were there for those
moments.
Christopher Blevins (07:32):
Totally.
And I do, you know, one topicwe could veer off on, you know,
for too long, but the the splitbetween the North American
racing community and the WorldCup scene.
Sure, there is a split there.
And I I grew up and the peoplewithin the you know Lifetime
series and racing more thanendurance, scrabble racing, like
those are the those are thepeople I grew up with, and it's
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the same community in my eyes.
Um but I think a lot of workcan be done to join those two
within the US and to have WorldCup, you know, UCI level races
that give this kind of capturethe, I don't want to say the
word spirit because spirit ofgravel, right?
But capture the generalatmosphere of these North
American races that you see likebig sugar and little sugar,
(08:15):
mass participation, fun, verygood for families.
And yeah, anyways, that's athat's a bigger topic, but I'm
huge.
Yeah.
Nat Ross (08:23):
Because the the weaving of the cultures, right?
So you have uh immersedyourself in the race culture on
the global level now.
You are an icon and you'vereached that status where not
only of all the hard work haspaid off over the years, but
you're a North American umathlete through and through.
So you're on the road probably200 days a year for this
commitment.
Um, and and what you've done umpersonally to achieve your
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goals is also setting the stagefor the next generation.
So we'll touch on that in alittle bit because that's
something that has always beendear to you, and you've always
been that athlete that's a trueprofessional that gives back
instead of just shows up at theraces and does what they're paid
to do.
Um, one question for you,Chris.
Super curious.
Um, I think where do you getFOMO um when you're on your
(09:09):
global stage with yourcommitments, but your friends
are doing something else for arace.
So, what would be a race thatyou didn't get to do um on the
calendar that um that you'refollowing and want to be a part
of?
Christopher Blevins (09:22):
Yeah.
Nat Ross (09:22):
Um, good question.
Christopher Blevins (09:24):
There's uh yeah, there's there's there's so
many good races on thecalendar, really.
And every year when the WorldCup schedule comes out, and then
I look at the North Americanraces or whatever else, like you
just try to imagine how it allcan link together.
Um it never does, you know.
But this year, I really I thinkI yeah, I only did XC races, I
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didn't do a single gravel raceor long race, which was first
year in a while.
But um this year, without adoubt, little sugar.
I would have loved to do it.
Um I love these trails.
Uh, you know, it's it'sunbelievable.
When I raced it last year, Iwas just amazed at the 60 miles
of pure single track the entiretime.
So um that's an easy one tosay.
(10:07):
Okay.
Yeah.
Nat Ross (10:08):
Well, and also on the Oz trails, going by your house
that you have here, because Iknow bit like Bitonville is a
place that you train and and dosome stuff.
Yeah.
Durango is your home.
Your home's in the mountains,but racing on your home trails
um while you're away is kind ofnice too.
Christopher Blevins (10:24):
Yeah, absolutely.
No, um, yeah, right under rightin down under loop.
Um that's where my spot is, andI'll spend some time here, you
know, um, over the next year,like that without a doubt, doing
some training.
And we obviously have a lot ofraces here.
So I really am so it just feltlike a natural decision to kind
of build a base here with howmuch uh community there is.
Nat Ross (10:46):
Um so yeah, it's sorry, our Australia's bike
park, or is that like some ofyour sponsors don't want to
hear?
Christopher Blevins (10:54):
Oh no, no, without a doubt.
Absolutely.
I'll get a sneak peek of ittomorrow, but no, uh yeah, no
question.
Nat Ross (11:01):
Dig it.
Well, I think for a lot offolks, um, they expected a big
season out of you because youput that pressure on yourself.
But let's just highlight, and II want to recap kind of what
you did this year um becauseit's never been done before, and
you're humble, so you don't goaround informing folks of like
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the difficulties of theachievements.
So I think to highlight theoverall World Cup victories in
two different disciplines, it'san immense uh even just to line
up and be on the podium at aWorld Cup is uh a large task.
Not only have you done thatconsistently through the season,
but you took two overall UCImountain bike world cup titles.
(11:45):
Short track, um, kind of adiscipline that you are an
animator on and definitely uh anentertainer for folks that are
watching you race, um, but alsoa motivator for the North
Americans because really shorttrack was something that started
in North America and and you'rebringing it back um to owning
it again and and the prowess.
(12:07):
So sit it was 1991 since anyoverall UCI titles um were
taken, and that was an AmericanJohn Tomac in your backyard.
Christopher Blevins (12:19):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean winning thecross-country, yeah, World Cup
overall without a doubt, is thething I'm most proud of in my
career.
Um, and you know, I'm stillcatching up with myself on what
it means.
I never thought I could, quitefrankly.
I mean, you know, you it's thetop.
It's the in a lot of ways, it'sa I think for riders it may
(12:43):
mean more than a worldchampionship title.
Um I don't know, I get asked,like, would I rather be world
champion or world cup winner oroverall winner?
Probably probably worldchampion, but but um the
consistency of having to show upand string together the 10
races that I've had throughoutthe year.
Um I'm really proud of yeah,how I brought it together.
(13:04):
And uh yeah, I I you know Ireally wanted this.
You know, I I I definitelymidseason was more locked in and
just there was nothing that Iwouldn't do to to make it
happen.
And uh yeah, I did it.
So I am pretty uh I am prettyhappy this week and just letting
it catch up with me.
Nat Ross (13:25):
And probably a little bit um the catch-ups happening,
but it was on US soil where youclaimed it, and it was the the
throughout the season, the ninevictories, that is absolutely an
accomplishment.
So what was it like at LakePlacid?
Christopher Blevins (13:39):
Yeah, um, well, I started the season super
hot.
I won um second in the firstXC, but besides that, I think I
had seven out of eight victoriesto start the year.
Um yeah, so like I definitelywas on a run, a roll that um was
(14:01):
pretty unprecedented, and and Iwas always you know reminding
myself not to take it forgranted and to always start from
ground zero every race.
Like start fresh.
Don't, you know, don't getahead of yourself and don't get
behind yourself.
Don't like you know try to liftup the version that you were
last weekend or in Brazil.
Um, because this sportnaturally keeps you humble and
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keeps you human.
And everybody, you got to go tothe start line and leave
everything behind and give itwithout a quite without a doubt,
every ounce of you.
There's no other race way torace your bike and to do some
sport this hard besides thatthat full commitment and
presence, really.
Nat Ross (14:38):
So, Christopher, no doubt you uh went out all
cylinders firing the beginningof the World Cup season.
It was incredible.
Um, then the it's a longseason, you guys are traveling
the globe.
Um, there was for you probablyjust uh a lot going on.
So what was that like to end upum the entire season packed
into a quick nutshell here?
Christopher Blevins (14:58):
Yeah, uh as I was saying earlier, the sport
keeps you humble and humannaturally.
Um every race is so hard, youyou can't, you know, you can't
do anything but but start fromground zero.
And uh, you know, you're notthe the the previous winner.
You're only as good as you areon that day.
And uh you got this, it's a lotof times I think the mistake
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athletes make and and the publicmakes is they they uh have an
image of a rider and it's it'sseparate from the actual
experience.
And like it's just so importantto stay human and to remember
that you're you're constantlychanging, the process is always
fluid, and you never know youknow where you're gonna be that
day.
You just gotta sort of createthe causes and conditions.
But yeah, I I startedincredibly hot in the season and
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then the mid the midpoint, um,just naturally, it's just you
know the natural ebb and flowfluctuation.
Uh I I wasn't I wasn't good.
Um I had some poor results, butI had a good lead in the
overall, and then I had asix-week chunk to come back and
train in the midsummer, um,which was great.
And then I got sick a coupletimes when I was back in Europe.
(16:05):
Um, so the two European roundsto end the year, Leger and
Lenzer Hyde, didn't didn't gowell for me.
It didn't have a top 10 even.
Um, had a mechanical in there,broke a chain.
And like that just gives youperspective.
You gotta keep going, and youdon't know when you're gonna
break through.
And I really didn't know I wasgonna break through like I did
in Lake Placid.
Um there's sort of a part ofyour mind that's like, yeah,
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just get to the line, get to theline, like you know, you don't
want to lose this now.
And I had to have a real quickcheck-in and shift before Lake
Placid, saying, you know what,like screw it.
I'm going, I'm going all theway for it and full commitment.
Um this isn't something to youknow get to the line.
This is something to startfresh, really.
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And just like and Lake Placidwas a culmination, I think, of a
lot of the work I've done.
Um and it just came togethertwo times.
So to do the double there, toseal both overalls, um, yeah,
it's it's yeah, as good as itgets.
So, but I I really worked hardto shift my perspective and to
remember everybody's tired.
You know, you gotta meet yourbody with where it's at, and you
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don't know what you're capableof until you really give it
everything.
And yeah, that's what I wascapable of.
Nat Ross (17:16):
And you proved it in Lake Placid.
A couple things we'll hit onLake Placid because we want to
talk about uh another thing youdid there, but back to the
victories, and then what is itlike to line up?
Um, because the UCI now, asthis year and this season, once
you started um the dominance,you were wearing a bullseye
basically on your back.
So, what's that jersey?
Um, what does it mean?
How do the number plates work?
Um, for just the generalpublic, like for you, it's just
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part of the process.
But for us to watch, yeah.
Christopher Blevins (17:42):
Yeah, I got this bright red jersey with a
massive number one on the backand my name on it.
And yeah, talk about a targeton your back.
Um, but I guess this is youknow, it's just important to
separate yourself from from thatfrom that image again, you
know.
Um, I didn't feel and I I didfeel like the guy, you know, who
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could own that spot and benumber one and and and claim it,
but at the same time, likeyeah, not get wrapped up in that
process and just like you'reyou're lining up with the best
in the world every weekend, andthey're all working just as hard
as you.
So again, that like naturalnessto stay humble is so important.
Um, but it was cool.
Um, it was really cool.
(18:24):
And uh the shift this year withthe World Series was to have uh
career numbers if you've won aWorld Cup.
So my my number's eight, whichuh 24 was taken.
So I went with with KobeBryant's first number, number
eight.
Um but uh I had after the firstrate, first round in Brazil, um
I had a number one on my bikethe entire season, which is the
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World Cup leaders position.
So yeah.
Nat Ross (18:48):
Well, I think that's kind of memorable because you
also owned um a previous season,the rainbow, and uh and that
was in a short track disciplinewhere you were the world
champion, and the rest of yourlife you wear the rainbow
stripes um in that discipline.
Christopher Blevins (19:03):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um and you're probably gonnaask your next question about
short track worlds this year, soI'll just beat you to it and
get into it.
We won't know.
Yeah, yeah.
I won uh the first five shorttracks, and then I was second in
the next one, and then and thenI was all in for short track
world championships, which I wonin 2021, my first year elite,
and definitely a breakthroughmoment for me back then.
(19:24):
Um was was way I was shootingway over what I was capable of
at that point.
Um, but this year I reallyproved what I was capable of.
And then uh at Short TrackWorlds, I I had a I had a gap
going into the finish, and thenmy teammate, Victor Kuretsky,
had a brilliant last slap to tofinish for the win.
And um yeah, he's he's got thefull rainbow, so I guess yeah,
(19:48):
no, it so so this year, eventhough there have been so many
successes, like there's thatsecond place stung more than any
second place I've had, but italso like success, winning or
losing, kind of two sides of thesame coin.
Like, you know, it's it's it'sthe competitor in you that shows
up and gives it everything thatyou know means more than you
know, yeah.
Nat Ross (20:08):
So anyways, just all those parts of being an athlete,
right?
What what you uh have to defendfor what the public wants to
know, and that's part of thepodcast, I guess, too.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think the back to LakePlacid and those special
moments.
So it was the racing, but umthe give back to the community.
You were part of Nika, and I goback um quite the era to
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watching you race Nica and yoursister um and dominate even in
Nica and just have fun on thecourses in Colorado.
So I do, and my wife Amyremember just watching you have
fun on the bike for that periodof time.
NYCA's a huge piece of NorthAmerica and growth and just the
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where kids get to find theircommunity.
You gave back in Lake Placid uhand fill us in on that day or
what it's like and what um thosekids get experience.
Christopher Blevins (21:00):
Yeah.
So we did a kids' ride Saturdayin between the short track and
XC.
Um, probably like 75 kids,Riley Amos, Bjorn Riley, and I
um had a Q ⁇ A and some signingsin the morning, and then did a
lap with a short track course.
We we stopped right before therock garden, which was like the
main feature of the short trackcourse, and uh told kids, like,
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hey, yeah, let's just you knowride around it or you can walk
through it.
And every kid gave it a shotand rode through it.
Nobody crashed.
Um we were there like you know,picking kids, yeah, catching
them before they fell.
And uh everyone was justsending it.
And I mean, I genuinely don'tfeel any any different from the
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kids when I'm in an environmentlike that.
Like I just got a bigger bikeand maybe I can, you know,
wheelie through the rock rockgarden instead of you know, just
ride through it, which was themost proud moment I had probably
the whole weekend was mywheelie through the rock garden.
Probably wouldn't have donethat nine out of ten times, but
I got it and right in front ofthe kids.
So that was just but at the endof the day, like we're just
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playing on bikes, no matter ifyou're racing a World Cup in
fancy spandex or yeah, or thekids, like we're just riding our
bikes around, and uh you gottahave that like yeah,
perspective.
So it was good for me.
Hopefully, it was good for thekids, but I think in the US,
there's there's such a differentarc of development and it goes
in all directions, it's not justto the you know, Olympic level
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of racing.
Like, I I hope that kids cansee a livelihood through the
bike for you know in many waysfor their entire life.
And in places like Betonville,definitely in Durango, kids can
understand how to progressthrough the bike, whether it's
racing or coaching or guidingtrips or working in the
industry.
And uh that's what's uniqueabout this sport compared to a
more I don't know, um,stadium-based sport, like say
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basketball.
There's one way to playbasketball, you can ride your
bike a million different ways.
Um and I think programs likeNica, Outride, you know, so many
others that have to be kind oflinked in this constellation of
youth development.
Um, can and then if we race infront of kids like we did in
Lake Placid, I think it givesopportunities for them to
connect the dots themselves.
Nat Ross (23:10):
Absolutely.
And real quick, because youjust tied two communities
together, which Bittonville doeswhen they aspire to do what
Durango's doing.
There will be the regional Nicachampionships where basically
nine different states come torace in in the fall season,
which is similar to ColoradoNYCA and all the other NICA
leagues can do spring or fall,and then that will be a great
highlight here.
(23:31):
But let's go and uh close thispodcast out with uh going back
to your home.
There was a huge announcementthis year behind the scenes.
The community in Durango, sinceyou guys are pioneers, have
been working on bringing back amajor event.
Fill us in on what that is.
Uh, people have kind of heardabout it, but it's a big deal.
Christopher Blevins (23:49):
Yeah.
Well, so Durango WorldChampionships 2030.
I can put it on the calendarnow, is you know, my potential
retirement party.
Yep.
Um and uh Ned Overin was myneighbor in Rockridge growing up
in Durango, and he won thefirst world championship from
Durango in Durango in 1990.
So uh 40 years later to bringit back there is is really
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amazing.
And I think the whole world cansee a lot from how we do
mountain bikes in the U.S.
and in Durango, yeah, and inBentonville.
Like uh there's there's adifferent energy, and I think
you know, my open call for theU.S.
mountain bike community is tolean into that.
Like we're not we're not justtrying to do what the Euros do,
we're trying to do it our way.
And I think Durango WorldChampionships will be a great
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moment for that.
And there's so much momentum,generally.
So yeah.
Nat Ross (24:37):
Well, I love that that's kind of the community
that you thrived in, and thenyou'll recharge there.
So we just had to hear it.
But the Durango piece is big.
So congratulations to yourentire community.
But first of all, Christopher,you're in seat this entire
season was stellar.
So um you went through thehighs and lows, you left it on
the best note ever.
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So congratulations on anincredible season.
Thank you for coming toBitonville to um celebrate it
with us and this community here.
And in what do in the world isnext for Christopher Blevins?
We all want to know.
So thank you for filling us in.
I know you got an off season infront of you.
Um, Visit Bittenvilleappreciates it.
So does this community.
Christopher Blevins (25:18):
Yeah.
Well, great to be here.
Um let's just play on bikesthis week and then we'll be back
to it next year, without adoubt.
So yeah, thank you.
Nat Ross (25:27):
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Welcome to the Visit Bendville Podcast, a new
American town.
I'm your host, Nat Ross, withan extra special edition of our
bike podcast.
We have Christopher Blevins,Team USA, who has secured the
overall UCI mountain bike shorttrack as well as cross-country
titles in our studio here indowntown Bentonville.
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Christopher Blevins, welcomeback to Bentonville.
What a long season.
What an incredible ride.
So I know you're uh just freshoff the plane, landed on the
tarmac.
You're in Haxton Studios inBentonville, Arkansas, downtown
right now.
Let's talk about your raceseason.
So you just ended the seasonand boy did you end it on a
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high.
So fill us in on the verybeginning of how you got there,
which is the support, which isyour family, your network.
Christopher Blevins (01:01):
Yeah.
Well, first of all, it's greatto be back.
Uh definitely feels a bit likehome, you know, spending more
and more time here.
And uh I had my just you know,in Europe, you know, you don't
get like just real good dripcoffee.
And I just was so glad to sitwith my Onyx this morning.
And and uh yeah, this isobviously a very busy week.
Um, the sugar weeks week inbetween.
(01:23):
So so many people to see, andI'm just really happy to be
here.
Um, but yeah, no, this season,man, it's a great question to
just start off uh the supportbecause yeah, it just stacks on
top of each other for uh uh uhof itself on for years, you
know.
And the first people tomention, obviously, are my
parents.
Um my mom still, I have toremind her that uh this is what
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I do and have done since I wasfive years old because she gets
so nervous every single race.
But that's just because she,you know, she's a mom.
And she was in Lake Placid.
Um, and I was so grateful toyeah, have her there.
She's been at a lot of my bigraces, she counts herself as a
lucky charm.
My sister as well.
And then my dad, you know,who's been my right-hand man in
the sport.
He literally, as a BMX racer atage five, would place me in the
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gate, catch me at the finishbecause I couldn't clip out at
that point.
So, and then I mean, there'llso many people I can't mention,
you know, uh with with the time,but uh the team I'll mention
specialized, and uh I I've saidthis, you know, in a lot of
interviews recently that peopleuse the word family when they
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talk about kind of business oror sports sometimes, and it and
it kind of feels clunky.
And I don't like using thatword if it's not really like
that, but without a doubt, I cansay that this team is my
family.
And I spend so much time withthis band of you know 20 people
from you know, I don't know, 10,12 different countries, and um
the boys of my, you know, thatI've we've had so many, so much
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success with um are likebrothers to me.
Um my coach Mike Postumus isthe performance manager, and
there's just been an immenseamount of support from really
the whole brand and and thewhole team.
Um, and then there's a couplepeople uh to thank from this
unique approach that I've reallyblended this year, which is
really applying mindfulness tobike racing.
Um Patrick Sweeney, who's who'smy teacher and and and uh has
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really helped me understand howyou know, in the last six years,
mindfulness and really bikeracing can be like a martial
art, you know, like we have a wehave a view of sports in the
Western world that kind ofnegates that and doesn't think
that there's like this innergame happening all the time, but
that's what it's felt like thisyear.
So he's been hugely supportive.
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Um yeah, I could ramble on thisone, but I've got I'm I'm
really just a product of all thesupport um from USA Cycling,
Durango, Colorado, San LuisObispo, Bentonville.
I mean, it's just there's somany people, um, and I feel so
grateful to really go for itbecause I have that support.
Nat Ross (03:50):
Sure.
And then just real quick, canyou highlight um specialized
factory racing and what type ofuh infrastructure that would be
for the general public?
So the factory element, similarto NASCAR, you guys, there's a
hole behind the scenes movingbehind you.
You've got all these elementsand pieces that you're doing,
but the World Cup overseas andnot just Europe, but the amount
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of travel and the logistics.
Um, so that's what you mean bythe specialized factory racing
team and that part.
Christopher Blevins (04:17):
Yeah, we are a thousand percent a
traveling circus, you know, andum there's so much stuff to
bring around.
There's so many moving parts,and um, there's so much downtime
with your people, you know?
Yeah.
Like you in a sport like this,um, you don't you don't really,
yeah, you don't go to work fromnine to five and then go home.
You're with your people theentire time, for better or
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worse.
But with this team, it's reallymostly for the better.
Um, but yeah, I don't have tolift a finger when I when I show
up with the team.
I have so many people, youknow, we got a great chef,
people taking care of ourbodies, our bikes.
So, um, and then just goodfriends.
Yeah, it's that simple.
But there's there's a wholeperformance element to it that
the whole machinery has feltflawless this year, uh, and
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natural, like really organic.
Like, you know, we're not doinganything crazy from my
perspective, but things areworking.
We're developing like productsbetter than we ever have with
specialized um from the RD side,and then we know what works, we
know the process, um, and we'vejust stuck to it, and I think
that's why we succeeded.
Nat Ross (05:18):
You're developing bikes for us as we speak in your
entire team, so it's not justabout the podiums, but it's
about the product that you guysare putting through the ringer,
that the mechanics are pullingoff your bikes at night, going
through sending them back to themotherships for testing and
just digging in for intel.
Christopher Blevins (05:33):
Yeah, I I could definitely say the Epic
Eight, you know, that we'reracing this year.
First of all, I I think it'spretty safe to say it's the best
bike on the circuit, and itwithout a doubt gives us an
advantage.
And I don't I think peoplewould have a hard argument to go
against that.
But the tires we're racing, thewheels, the way the tires and
the wheels link together, thesuspension, the flight
attendant, and the wholegeometry of the frame.
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Like I, you know, we've been areal active part in that whole
process.
And I think that's that cuttingedge that like has been so fun
to really progress the sport andbuild those relationships.
And yeah, it's cool, it'sreally cool.
So I'm not much of a nerd withproduct, but like I'm yeah,
without I'm so stoked on the waythat the factory team is
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operating, you know, on thisfront.
Nat Ross (06:17):
Um, love it that actually in town right now, you
have some team members andformer colleagues and folks that
have gone through Nica, DurangoDevo.
Um, because like you mentioned,this is basically like the Sea
Otter of the beginning of theseason.
We're in Bentonville, we're atthe end of the season, book
capped by the mountain bikerace, which was Sunday, and the
gravel race, which last year youwere in the sprint finish for.
(06:38):
And guess what?
What happened last year?
Little sugar?
Christopher Blevins (06:42):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
End of the year there, yeah.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, there are so manypeople that I could, you know,
just stumble around the thesquare and see, you know, a
bunch of old friends, um, youknow, people that I could have
an hour-long chat with.
So that's kind of the nature ofthis week.
Um, there's so many people Iwant to see and only so much
time, but it's great.
(07:02):
It's it's really it's theperfect place to end the year
like this.
And uh yeah, although it'd befun.
Part of me is like, yeah, Ishould just race big sugar.
Uh I uh yeah, I'm gonna havemore fun just hanging out.
So yeah.
Weight off my shoulders.
Nat Ross (07:16):
Well, one thing uh I remember watching you at
Leadville because you did thesupport piece there, and I I
think that's pretty invigoratingfor you to be able to not just
give back but see it in motionwithout being a part of it and
know you weren't even worriedabout being plugged in and
racing.
You were there for that day,you were there for those
moments.
Christopher Blevins (07:32):
Totally.
And I do, you know, one topicwe could veer off on, you know,
for too long, but the the splitbetween the North American
racing community and the WorldCup scene.
Sure, there is a split there.
And I I grew up and the peoplewithin the you know Lifetime
series and racing more thanendurance, scrabble racing, like
those are the those are thepeople I grew up with, and it's
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the same community in my eyes.
Um but I think a lot of workcan be done to join those two
within the US and to have WorldCup, you know, UCI level races
that give this kind of capturethe, I don't want to say the
word spirit because spirit ofgravel, right?
But capture the generalatmosphere of these North
American races that you see likebig sugar and little sugar,
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mass participation, fun, verygood for families.
And yeah, anyways, that's athat's a bigger topic, but I'm
huge.
Yeah.
Nat Ross (08:23):
Because the the weaving of the cultures, right?
So you have uh immersedyourself in the race culture on
the global level now.
You are an icon and you'vereached that status where not
only of all the hard work haspaid off over the years, but
you're a North American umathlete through and through.
So you're on the road probably200 days a year for this
commitment.
Um, and and what you've done umpersonally to achieve your
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goals is also setting the stagefor the next generation.
So we'll touch on that in alittle bit because that's
something that has always beendear to you, and you've always
been that athlete that's a trueprofessional that gives back
instead of just shows up at theraces and does what they're paid
to do.
Um, one question for you,Chris.
Super curious.
Um, I think where do you getFOMO um when you're on your
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global stage with yourcommitments, but your friends
are doing something else for arace.
So, what would be a race thatyou didn't get to do um on the
calendar that um that you'refollowing and want to be a part
of?
Christopher Blevins (09:22):
Yeah.
Nat Ross (09:22):
Um, good question.
Christopher Blevins (09:24):
There's uh yeah, there's there's there's so
many good races on thecalendar, really.
And every year when the WorldCup schedule comes out, and then
I look at the North Americanraces or whatever else, like you
just try to imagine how it allcan link together.
Um it never does, you know.
But this year, I really I thinkI yeah, I only did XC races, I
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didn't do a single gravel raceor long race, which was first
year in a while.
But um this year, without adoubt, little sugar.
I would have loved to do it.
Um I love these trails.
Uh, you know, it's it'sunbelievable.
When I raced it last year, Iwas just amazed at the 60 miles
of pure single track the entiretime.
So um that's an easy one tosay.
(10:07):
Okay.
Yeah.
Nat Ross (10:08):
Well, and also on the Oz trails, going by your house
that you have here, because Iknow bit like Bitonville is a
place that you train and and dosome stuff.
Yeah.
Durango is your home.
Your home's in the mountains,but racing on your home trails
um while you're away is kind ofnice too.
Christopher Blevins (10:24):
Yeah, absolutely.
No, um, yeah, right under rightin down under loop.
Um that's where my spot is, andI'll spend some time here, you
know, um, over the next year,like that without a doubt, doing
some training.
And we obviously have a lot ofraces here.
So I really am so it just feltlike a natural decision to kind
of build a base here with howmuch uh community there is.
Nat Ross (10:46):
Um so yeah, it's sorry, our Australia's bike
park, or is that like some ofyour sponsors don't want to
hear?
Christopher Blevins (10:54):
Oh no, no, without a doubt.
Absolutely.
I'll get a sneak peek of ittomorrow, but no, uh yeah, no
question.
Nat Ross (11:01):
Dig it.
Well, I think for a lot offolks, um, they expected a big
season out of you because youput that pressure on yourself.
But let's just highlight, and II want to recap kind of what
you did this year um becauseit's never been done before, and
you're humble, so you don't goaround informing folks of like
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the difficulties of theachievements.
So I think to highlight theoverall World Cup victories in
two different disciplines, it'san immense uh even just to line
up and be on the podium at aWorld Cup is uh a large task.
Not only have you done thatconsistently through the season,
but you took two overall UCImountain bike world cup titles.
(11:45):
Short track, um, kind of adiscipline that you are an
animator on and definitely uh anentertainer for folks that are
watching you race, um, but alsoa motivator for the North
Americans because really shorttrack was something that started
in North America and and you'rebringing it back um to owning
it again and and the prowess.
(12:07):
So sit it was 1991 since anyoverall UCI titles um were
taken, and that was an AmericanJohn Tomac in your backyard.
Christopher Blevins (12:19):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean winning thecross-country, yeah, World Cup
overall without a doubt, is thething I'm most proud of in my
career.
Um, and you know, I'm stillcatching up with myself on what
it means.
I never thought I could, quitefrankly.
I mean, you know, you it's thetop.
It's the in a lot of ways, it'sa I think for riders it may
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mean more than a worldchampionship title.
Um I don't know, I get asked,like, would I rather be world
champion or world cup winner oroverall winner?
Probably probably worldchampion, but but um the
consistency of having to show upand string together the 10
races that I've had throughoutthe year.
Um I'm really proud of yeah,how I brought it together.
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And uh yeah, I I you know Ireally wanted this.
You know, I I I definitelymidseason was more locked in and
just there was nothing that Iwouldn't do to to make it
happen.
And uh yeah, I did it.
So I am pretty uh I am prettyhappy this week and just letting
it catch up with me.
Nat Ross (13:25):
And probably a little bit um the catch-ups happening,
but it was on US soil where youclaimed it, and it was the the
throughout the season, the ninevictories, that is absolutely an
accomplishment.
So what was it like at LakePlacid?
Christopher Blevins (13:39):
Yeah, um, well, I started the season super
hot.
I won um second in the firstXC, but besides that, I think I
had seven out of eight victoriesto start the year.
Um yeah, so like I definitelywas on a run, a roll that um was
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pretty unprecedented, and and Iwas always you know reminding
myself not to take it forgranted and to always start from
ground zero every race.
Like start fresh.
Don't, you know, don't getahead of yourself and don't get
behind yourself.
Don't like you know try to liftup the version that you were
last weekend or in Brazil.
Um, because this sportnaturally keeps you humble and
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keeps you human.
And everybody, you got to go tothe start line and leave
everything behind and give itwithout a quite without a doubt,
every ounce of you.
There's no other race way torace your bike and to do some
sport this hard besides thatthat full commitment and
presence, really.
Nat Ross (14:38):
So, Christopher, no doubt you uh went out all
cylinders firing the beginningof the World Cup season.
It was incredible.
Um, then the it's a longseason, you guys are traveling
the globe.
Um, there was for you probablyjust uh a lot going on.
So what was that like to end upum the entire season packed
into a quick nutshell here?
Christopher Blevins (14:58):
Yeah, uh as I was saying earlier, the sport
keeps you humble and humannaturally.
Um every race is so hard, youyou can't, you know, you can't
do anything but but start fromground zero.
And uh, you know, you're notthe the the previous winner.
You're only as good as you areon that day.
And uh you got this, it's a lotof times I think the mistake
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athletes make and and the publicmakes is they they uh have an
image of a rider and it's it'sseparate from the actual
experience.
And like it's just so importantto stay human and to remember
that you're you're constantlychanging, the process is always
fluid, and you never know youknow where you're gonna be that
day.
You just gotta sort of createthe causes and conditions.
But yeah, I I startedincredibly hot in the season and
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then the mid the midpoint, um,just naturally, it's just you
know the natural ebb and flowfluctuation.
Uh I I wasn't I wasn't good.
Um I had some poor results, butI had a good lead in the
overall, and then I had asix-week chunk to come back and
train in the midsummer, um,which was great.
And then I got sick a coupletimes when I was back in Europe.
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Um, so the two European roundsto end the year, Leger and
Lenzer Hyde, didn't didn't gowell for me.
It didn't have a top 10 even.
Um, had a mechanical in there,broke a chain.
And like that just gives youperspective.
You gotta keep going, and youdon't know when you're gonna
break through.
And I really didn't know I wasgonna break through like I did
in Lake Placid.
Um there's sort of a part ofyour mind that's like, yeah,
(16:27):
just get to the line, get to theline, like you know, you don't
want to lose this now.
And I had to have a real quickcheck-in and shift before Lake
Placid, saying, you know what,like screw it.
I'm going, I'm going all theway for it and full commitment.
Um this isn't something to youknow get to the line.
This is something to startfresh, really.
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And just like and Lake Placidwas a culmination, I think, of a
lot of the work I've done.
Um and it just came togethertwo times.
So to do the double there, toseal both overalls, um, yeah,
it's it's yeah, as good as itgets.
So, but I I really worked hardto shift my perspective and to
remember everybody's tired.
You know, you gotta meet yourbody with where it's at, and you
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don't know what you're capableof until you really give it
everything.
And yeah, that's what I wascapable of.
Nat Ross (17:16):
And you proved it in Lake Placid.
A couple things we'll hit onLake Placid because we want to
talk about uh another thing youdid there, but back to the
victories, and then what is itlike to line up?
Um, because the UCI now, asthis year and this season, once
you started um the dominance,you were wearing a bullseye
basically on your back.
So, what's that jersey?
Um, what does it mean?
How do the number plates work?
Um, for just the generalpublic, like for you, it's just
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part of the process.
But for us to watch, yeah.
Christopher Blevins (17:42):
Yeah, I got this bright red jersey with a
massive number one on the backand my name on it.
And yeah, talk about a targeton your back.
Um, but I guess this is youknow, it's just important to
separate yourself from from thatfrom that image again, you
know.
Um, I didn't feel and I I didfeel like the guy, you know, who
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could own that spot and benumber one and and and claim it,
but at the same time, likeyeah, not get wrapped up in that
process and just like you'reyou're lining up with the best
in the world every weekend, andthey're all working just as hard
as you.
So again, that like naturalnessto stay humble is so important.
Um, but it was cool.
Um, it was really cool.
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And uh the shift this year withthe World Series was to have uh
career numbers if you've won aWorld Cup.
So my my number's eight, whichuh 24 was taken.
So I went with with KobeBryant's first number, number
eight.
Um but uh I had after the firstrate, first round in Brazil, um
I had a number one on my bikethe entire season, which is the
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World Cup leaders position.
So yeah.
Nat Ross (18:48):
Well, I think that's kind of memorable because you
also owned um a previous season,the rainbow, and uh and that
was in a short track disciplinewhere you were the world
champion, and the rest of yourlife you wear the rainbow
stripes um in that discipline.
Christopher Blevins (19:03):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um and you're probably gonnaask your next question about
short track worlds this year, soI'll just beat you to it and
get into it.
We won't know.
Yeah, yeah.
I won uh the first five shorttracks, and then I was second in
the next one, and then and thenI was all in for short track
world championships, which I wonin 2021, my first year elite,
and definitely a breakthroughmoment for me back then.
(19:24):
Um was was way I was shootingway over what I was capable of
at that point.
Um, but this year I reallyproved what I was capable of.
And then uh at Short TrackWorlds, I I had a I had a gap
going into the finish, and thenmy teammate, Victor Kuretsky,
had a brilliant last slap to tofinish for the win.
And um yeah, he's he's got thefull rainbow, so I guess yeah,
(19:48):
no, it so so this year, eventhough there have been so many
successes, like there's thatsecond place stung more than any
second place I've had, but italso like success, winning or
losing, kind of two sides of thesame coin.
Like, you know, it's it's it'sthe competitor in you that shows
up and gives it everything thatyou know means more than you
know, yeah.
Nat Ross (20:08):
So anyways, just all those parts of being an athlete,
right?
What what you uh have to defendfor what the public wants to
know, and that's part of thepodcast, I guess, too.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think the back to LakePlacid and those special
moments.
So it was the racing, but umthe give back to the community.
You were part of Nika, and I goback um quite the era to
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watching you race Nica and yoursister um and dominate even in
Nica and just have fun on thecourses in Colorado.
So I do, and my wife Amyremember just watching you have
fun on the bike for that periodof time.
NYCA's a huge piece of NorthAmerica and growth and just the
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where kids get to find theircommunity.
You gave back in Lake Placid uhand fill us in on that day or
what it's like and what um thosekids get experience.
Christopher Blevins (21:00):
Yeah.
So we did a kids' ride Saturdayin between the short track and
XC.
Um, probably like 75 kids,Riley Amos, Bjorn Riley, and I
um had a Q ⁇ A and some signingsin the morning, and then did a
lap with a short track course.
We we stopped right before therock garden, which was like the
main feature of the short trackcourse, and uh told kids, like,
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hey, yeah, let's just you knowride around it or you can walk
through it.
And every kid gave it a shotand rode through it.
Nobody crashed.
Um we were there like you know,picking kids, yeah, catching
them before they fell.
And uh everyone was justsending it.
And I mean, I genuinely don'tfeel any any different from the
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kids when I'm in an environmentlike that.
Like I just got a bigger bikeand maybe I can, you know,
wheelie through the rock rockgarden instead of you know, just
ride through it, which was themost proud moment I had probably
the whole weekend was mywheelie through the rock garden.
Probably wouldn't have donethat nine out of ten times, but
I got it and right in front ofthe kids.
So that was just but at the endof the day, like we're just
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playing on bikes, no matter ifyou're racing a World Cup in
fancy spandex or yeah, or thekids, like we're just riding our
bikes around, and uh you gottahave that like yeah,
perspective.
So it was good for me.
Hopefully, it was good for thekids, but I think in the US,
there's there's such a differentarc of development and it goes
in all directions, it's not justto the you know, Olympic level
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of racing.
Like, I I hope that kids cansee a livelihood through the
bike for you know in many waysfor their entire life.
And in places like Betonville,definitely in Durango, kids can
understand how to progressthrough the bike, whether it's
racing or coaching or guidingtrips or working in the
industry.
And uh that's what's uniqueabout this sport compared to a
more I don't know, um,stadium-based sport, like say
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basketball.
There's one way to playbasketball, you can ride your
bike a million different ways.
Um and I think programs likeNica, Outride, you know, so many
others that have to be kind oflinked in this constellation of
youth development.
Um, can and then if we race infront of kids like we did in
Lake Placid, I think it givesopportunities for them to
connect the dots themselves.
Nat Ross (23:10):
Absolutely.
And real quick, because youjust tied two communities
together, which Bittonville doeswhen they aspire to do what
Durango's doing.
There will be the regional Nicachampionships where basically
nine different states come torace in in the fall season,
which is similar to ColoradoNYCA and all the other NICA
leagues can do spring or fall,and then that will be a great
highlight here.
(23:31):
But let's go and uh close thispodcast out with uh going back
to your home.
There was a huge announcementthis year behind the scenes.
The community in Durango, sinceyou guys are pioneers, have
been working on bringing back amajor event.
Fill us in on what that is.
Uh, people have kind of heardabout it, but it's a big deal.
Christopher Blevins (23:49):
Yeah.
Well, so Durango WorldChampionships 2030.
I can put it on the calendarnow, is you know, my potential
retirement party.
Yep.
Um and uh Ned Overin was myneighbor in Rockridge growing up
in Durango, and he won thefirst world championship from
Durango in Durango in 1990.
So uh 40 years later to bringit back there is is really
(24:12):
amazing.
And I think the whole world cansee a lot from how we do
mountain bikes in the U.S.
and in Durango, yeah, and inBentonville.
Like uh there's there's adifferent energy, and I think
you know, my open call for theU.S.
mountain bike community is tolean into that.
Like we're not we're not justtrying to do what the Euros do,
we're trying to do it our way.
And I think Durango WorldChampionships will be a great
(24:33):
moment for that.
And there's so much momentum,generally.
So yeah.
Nat Ross (24:37):
Well, I love that that's kind of the community
that you thrived in, and thenyou'll recharge there.
So we just had to hear it.
But the Durango piece is big.
So congratulations to yourentire community.
But first of all, Christopher,you're in seat this entire
season was stellar.
So um you went through thehighs and lows, you left it on
the best note ever.
(24:57):
So congratulations on anincredible season.
Thank you for coming toBitonville to um celebrate it
with us and this community here.
And in what do in the world isnext for Christopher Blevins?
We all want to know.
So thank you for filling us in.
I know you got an off season infront of you.
Um, Visit Bittenvilleappreciates it.
So does this community.
Christopher Blevins (25:18):
Yeah.
Well, great to be here.
Um let's just play on bikesthis week and then we'll be back
to it next year, without adoubt.
So yeah, thank you.
Nat Ross (25:27):
Christopher and everyone listening at home,
thank you so much for joiningus.
Visit Bittenville is here tohave a great time in Bittenville
while you're visiting us.
So check outvisitbittenville.com for
restaurant guides, places tostay, things to do, and more.
You can also follow us onsocial media.
Thanks for listening.
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