Holy Spirit of Gravel

From the heavens to the corn fields…this episode is sometimes casual, sometimes erratic Lauf Gravel Worlds riffing. All yall were either there or watching the livestream anyway so we don’t need to get too serious. Or maybe you commenting "cross is coming" on a stray piece of mud-coded media. Or maybe you were doing something sane with your time. topics include: the upcoming Gravel Race Calendar the Adam Roberge protocolwe love Gravel Angelsthe neurotic Elite Field rider meeting Gravel Worlds rules are just "normie tactics"worldly representation at Gravel WorldsHoly Spirit probably going to Girona next yearJoe Goettl programmingfive HYDRATION BLADDERS - stomach bloat confusionHitter-coded life style clothes “XTREME GRAVEL” as a naming concept for mountain bike races that aren’t ‘real’ MTB racesChequamegon preview?respecting indigenous culturetaping your bladder to your bike (we are Diesel Decker truthers) which Privateer would loan me 40 bucks of their big Gravel Worlds check if I asked-presented by MGrills or MLGrills, we arent too sure

We weren't there and don't know a whole lot about Mountain Bikes but that doesn't stop us from talking about the most gravel-coded MTB race in the world. Or maybe its just X-Treme Gravel? Holy Spirit and the Gravel Dad cohost ate at a really activated pizza spot featured on Barstool Sports and then just decided to pod before she went back home because even tho the vibes were off, the pizza was really good! Also Holy Spirit briefly mixed up Heathland Gravel and Latvia's Gravel Weekend, she should resign from the Core4 media team. Also Holy Spirit wants to commit fraud and use the funds to start a team of privateers. Also thanks for listening, please rate/review and tell your friends. Topics include:​John Gaston - Leadville specialist​What is Skimo?​This is now a Skimo specific pod​WNBA and Gravel​HSOG meme coin when?​Lauren Stephens DQ'd​existential ramblings on where Leadville exists in the non grassroots, non UCI, prestige gravel paradigm of races​fixing feed zones​Cecily Decker and Skimo​how were there seemingly 50 feedzones?​becoming QOM on a MTB/Gravel livestream chat ​what makes a livestream worth watching​how we would run a GRAVEL RACE live stream​activating the Life Time app​Holy Spirit's best friend and drinking buddy Piotr Havik won Gravel Weekend in Latvia​FNLD Gravel and RADL Gravel​Kate Courtney: She Sends ​Heathland Gravel in Belgium being Americana-coded​Life Time GP Midpack Standings​there are two guys named Mat/t Stephens ​rules are a thing in sports even silly ones like Gravel Racing​telling random Kiwis about Cam Jones​Remco to Jukebox racing​Dylan Groenewegen to some meme team​Holy Spirit x Anna Delvey con artistry​Holy Spirit cheating in the feed zone​insane pop culture references​Sarah Gigante and Safa Brian collab​False Flag operations

The Holy Spirit of Gravel digs in on two weeks of gravel and whatever the Leadville stage race is because we were getting sick of the Tour (hommes) (we love it but). Gravel Earth Series seems to be winning the aesthetics war currently with their women’s Rift coverage… I think the men’s was in there somewhere. Foco Fondo had a dialed, grassroots-coded livestream where we could see some normie style aid station usage. Leadville stage race was stacked but does Holy Spirit even care about MTB? Will Daxton Mock/Lance Haidet’s family break the Gravel Database Project servers because they checked their profiles too many times? (We are too cheap to have a good server). Are vibes-based race calendars the new high carb movement? Why does Holy Spirit wear the same shirt in every video she’s soft doxxed herself in? What actually happened in the Lithuanian forests all those years ago? Do Lithuanian gravel races have 10k prize purses or is that just middle of nowhere North Dakota?These questions and many more get answered on today’s pod. Oh yeah, should we continue to do political pundit impressions? Here’s that awesome Kate Courtney video I was talking about: https://youtu.be/xFJsR8bG6es?si=fg2nWUOq0BpkCm19

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The Holy Spirit talks about SBT GRVL for way too long. It ends up being a podcast about lap races in gravel, neutral feed zones and MAURTEN's nutrition. (Not to be confused with Morton's Steak House or Morton's salt). The Cooldown with Alexey Vermuelen and Keegan Swenson provided insight into a race weekend of narrow tires and champagne gravel from the perspective of the gravel elite.Eventually, there is a vibe check on Oregon Trail Gravel Grind. We talk about the camping vs Airbnb wars among privateers and the future of the spirit of gravel. Does the Lifetime Grand Prix need a stage race? BWR Montana also happened and Chase Wark won a grassroots race. An overbooked weekend in Gravel means the privateers don't all get to hang out and post videos on Instagram together!Overall, there's a normie vibe shift towards adventure biking so gravel dads can ride overnight/camp in a Lachlan Morton style windbreaker tent for a night. There's also a vibe shift towards SCOTT bikes in 2025. Holy Spirit continues to push the narrative that the women are more interesting than the men. And that there should be more nutrition-specific gravel races when races design their course + race experience narratives.We talk about the biggest cycling brands like Pas Normal, MAAP, Colnago, Scott, and the ongoing vibe wars in gravel.Riffs of today:-Endurance Bro says the podcast is terrible-The move from aero to adventure coding-Is the aero movement ending?-Gravel is ruining every cycling discipline theory-The spirit of Randonneuring -SBT GRVL's cultural significance on the gravel calendar-The new format of SBT GRV-Loop formats and Dozinky Doozie's triple loop format-Brennan Wurtz and his stars and stripes x SCOTT bike-Is SCOTT bikes winning the vibes war in gravel this year?-The Cam Jones UNBOUND video drop-Are Cam Jones and Brennan Wurtz the REAL Keegan and Matt Beers?-Matt Beers is tall-BWR Montana and Finsty-Privateers who don't live in the Four Corners states have to go home eventually -- you can't just live in a van for months?-Chase Wark won a race --new documentary dropping soon?-Should more privateers go dominate grass roots races?-We need more Deep South Gravel representation-The Cooldown with Alexey and Keegan breakdown--Do we love Keegan Swenson hot takes?-Nathan Haas rode road tires at SBT and wrote narrow-tire-core instagram captions-Pas Normal Studios x Colnago road bike collab talk-Is Pas Normal a roadie brand?-The Pas Normal to Team UAE sponsorship Theory-Neutralized feed zones--great for normies, bad for sponsored athletes-Sarah Lange is bursting on to the scene-The Cooldown Femmes with Lauren Stephens and Paige Onweiller -- Cecily Decker or -Lauren DeCrezenco? Sofia Gomez-Villafane?-Are looped races just adventure dirt crits?-BWR Montana results review - Stella Hobbs to podcast guest? Daxton Mock, Lance Haidet, Joe Goettel.-Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder - Are stage races the next big vibe in gravel?-Glamp style stage races-Sophia Gomez-Villafane stayed at an AirBNB-Cecile Lejune, Sarah Sturm, Morgan Aguirre, Dani Shrosbree-Can Sarah Sturm digest Maurten's products?-Cam Jones and his parents are gravel's top story of 2025?-Iz King and her fourth trimester adventure experience-Bike shop customers in Pas Normal and MAAP are the worst patrons-Inside the Maurten's marketing team's reaction to post SBT buzz-Going Narrow with 45s-Facebook marketplace gravel dads looking to exploit cycling quitters-A theory on Nike joining the gravel boom-H&M bibs - is fast fashion aero?-Los Angeles cycling bros - Mitch Boyer, Shreddy Pendergrass, Safa Brian and NOT Phil Gaimon-That feeling when a fat tire bike passes you-How to get NIKE into gravel - a roadMAAP-Holy Spirit prepares to go to Gravel Mexico and get into the Gravel Earth longtail scrub standings (and connect with her heritage)-The Paul Sandmann Documentary?-Maurten's is SOYLENT coded-How to get a bike shop to hate you

The audio file episode that used to be here was horribly corrupted (that fact that no one seemed to notice is a testament to how insane we are maybe). Instead enjoy this Easter Egg from a Flint Hills local.

"Is American crit racing WASHED?" -some one way too into gravelThe Holy Spirit touches grass after getting TOO activated at UNBOUND. She documents going on a ride without her Wahoo. Then she starts reading about Gravel Earth's Festivus Gravel, attended by Lifetime Grand Prix hitter Simon Pellaud.The PD SQD (pod squad privateer team) accidentally starts talking about crit racing in America because Tulsa Tough happened. They are incredibly uninformed, but talk about Le6ion, The Golden State Blazers fka the Miami Blazers. Does it need a dirt crit or a Midsouth gravel crossover event? Holy Spirit says that we can unite American cycling if Justin Williams and Corey Williams did the Unbound 50 distance.Eventually, Holy goes over the MAAP privateer collection and proceeds to describe every single jersey in detail for our visually impaired listeners. Will Pas Racing x Pas Normal Studios ever sell Pas Racing clothing to the general public?The team begins to research grassroots races in America and becomes fixated on the Dozinky Doozy in Nebraska.As always, JUSTICE FOR THE RAD in Trinidad Colorado.RIFFS INCLUDE:-Simon Pellaud's post-unbound schedule-Politics of t-shirt rides-Post-Unbound race calendar having to be FUN-CODED due to activation exhaustion-Festivus Gravel in Canada -- why is there a Christmas event in June?-Gravelooza in Quebec: Canada is poppin off with grassroots events and even BWR British Columbia-How to RESET after an intensive Unbound Block and race-Garmin and WAHOO need a mental health UNPLUGGED setting for gravel dads-Crit racers are mentally ill hot take-Life before the gravel boom-- crit bros were once on top.-The Miami Blazers moved to GOLDEN STATE?-The most uninformed discussion on the failed American crit league of all time-Holy Spirit to become gravel national champion of Vatican City to wear papal-coded kit-Tulsa Tough x Bobby Wintel dirt crit at Tulsa Tough-Planning to chase an FKT as a normie-Corey Williams and Justin Williams to the Unbound 50-Mass start at the Unbound Dirt crit: gravel normies vs. crit bros-Tulsa Tough and gravel both happen in Flyover Country: FLYOVER THIS!-Establishing The Unaffiliated Calendar-The guy in the Le6ion jersey in your city is a maniac-Stop sign etiquette: You can never win-MAAP privateer jersey lineup-Chad Haga traded from Pas Racing to MAAP privateer-Pas Normal Studios won't manufacture bib sets for Large and XL riders-Freddy Ovett: His name is around-Peyson McElveen is injured in his MAAP privateer kit photo shoot-Paige Onweiller and mid-level provider awareness-Was Finsty wearing SHOCKS headphones during Unbound 200? (Russell Finsterwald)-Should privateers wear headphones during races?-HSOG shares her Unbound playlist-Does the PAS team talk about team tactics in English?-Do we need a Triple Crown or Quad of Gravel?-Why do women privateers have real jobs but the men are "just" cyclists?-Gravel Studies Major at Grand Canyon University Online-Aero Studies, Course Construction, Activation Maximization modules on UDEMY/Coursera-Sea Otter Europe Girona is a real thing-Dozinky Doozy in Prague, Nebraska-Gravel Worlds moved from Nebraska to Minnesota-No coverage of the Chase Wark Documentary-Doss Gravel will be hitter coded-Grass routes descriptions sound better than Unbound-Starting our own grass roots race and making it purposely shitty. Self-timing without infrastructure-Our first guest will be some one who rode in the Dozinky Doozy-Project Echelon apologists and fake gravel teams-The Dylan Johnson youtube views vacuum at UNBOUND-Discussing the Red Hook to gravel privateer pipeline-Getting Dylan Johnson's doctor on the pod (and first responders and truck drivers)-We need a BWR Specialist in the privateer field-Lifetime dropped The RAD in Trinidad, Colorado-Should more people want to be in the Cat 5 master's livestream?