Elden Nelson is the author of the popular Fat Cyclist blog, a 23-time finisher of the Leadville 100 MTB race, one of the hosts of the Leadville podcasts as well as the Marginal Gains podcast. Elden on his love of the Leadville 100 and the town of Leadville; “Maybe it’s kind of the same way I love riding my hometown trails more than I love riding just about anywhere else, I’ve done the trails in Quarter Canyon hundreds of times now because I can do them right out the door and it’s not like I see or experience anything new while one doing it, but the cumulative memory and joy is like ‘this is literally my happy place, this is my home’. And Leadville has the same sort of feel as well. Plus I do love the town, and I do love the intensity of the race, and honestly, I kind of enjoy that I know it so well and people do want to ask me questions about it. It’s fun to be the guy who knows something, every once in a while.”
