EP 10: Winning Ride Across Arizona with Dexter Kopas

The Bikepack Racing Podcast

We are once again staying in Arizona for this one!...but rewinding the the clock back to the beginning of the month for a recap of Ride Across Arizona (RAAZ) with (Spoiler Alert!) the overall winner of the event: Dexter Kopas. Ezra (Andrew was busy riding/recovering from DOOM) and Dexter sit down and discuss the many facets of Dexter's life. Including, but not limited to: Dexter's decision to go to college in the frozen hellscape of Southern Wisconsin, fixing abandoned bikes found in barns, the challenges of balancing manual labor jobs and training, and ultimately what drew Dexter to bikepacking racing. We end the conversation with a recap of sorts of how Dexter went on to win RAAZ in his first attempt at bikepack racing.

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Quick apology for some audio issues at the end of the episode, but the Starbucks parking lot (my normal podcast WiFi) was full so I had to resort to altervernative/sub-par sources of free WiFi. I did the best I could to hid these issues without messing up the conversation too much.