Episode Details

Megan Young is a UK-based ultra cyclist and bike packer from Dorset. She's raced the Atlas Mountain Race in Morocco as a pairs entry with her husband Angus, taken fastest female honours on the Dorset Divide, spent six months cycling through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile on sabbatical, and then finished that stretch with the Tour Te Waipounamu, a 1330km ultra race down the South Island of New Zealand. And right now she is  lining up for Lostdot 101, a women-only road race across Spain and Portugal where riders plan their own routes.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Megan got into ultra racing and what it was like competing as a pairs team at the Atlas Mountain Race
• Three months in the Andes: kit, food, altitude, wild camping, and choosing when to get a bus
• Max, the stray dog in the mountains who became their guardian for a day and then vanished on the descent
• The Tour Te Waipounamu: 30km of hike-a-bike, river crossings she'd never trained for, and a DNF 100km from the finish line
• Her mindset heading into Lostdot 101, planning her own route, and racing with six friends from Girls That Ride Bikes
• Wild camping confidence, the earplugs trick, and what she learned from getting her food strategy badly wrong on her first ultra
• Women in ultra racing, what's changed, and why communities like Girls That Ride Bikes are helping to get more women to the start line

You can follow Megan via her instagram - @MeganOnTwoWheels

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