After taking the toughest fall of his profession — and lacking Cease #1 of the Life Time Grand Prix — Payson McElveen made a comeback in Kansas.
On March 12, bike owner Payson McElveen took a fall from his bike, breaking a hand and his collarbone. Docs instructed him he’d want 8 weeks to recuperate. That meant lacking the Sea Otter Traditional: the primary cease of gravel racing’s Life Time Grand Prix.
Regardless of continued ache from the accidents, McElveen confirmed up on June 4 for tour cease two: UNBOUND Gravel in Emporia, Kan. It’s a infamous entry within the race sequence, and McElveen calls it the toughest in a brief YouTube documentary about his gravel using comeback.
“I do know that second will come throughout the race when there’s two voices in your head combating one another,” he says within the video. “One yelling, ‘Let’s give up, this hurts so badly.’ After which there’s the opposite voice that’s going, ‘No, you’ve labored so arduous to be on this second. That is the place races are received.’”
Watch the professional battle his method again on this fast edit.
Runtime: 4.5 minutes
