With Pace
With Pace
Payson McElveen
Maude Farrell on winning the Lead Challenge after months of balancing cycling and ultrarunning
1 hour 36 minutes Posted Aug 31, 2025 at 9:00 am.
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Mountain bike racing is hard. Ultrarunning is hard. So why did Maude Farrell decide to make things extra brutal for herself this season by combining them? Earlier this month, she won the Lead Challenge, a multi-month series comprised of five trail running and mountain bike races at over 10,000 feet. The final week of the series involved racing the Leadville 100 mountain bike race, running the Leadville 10k the next day, and running the Leadville Trail 100 race six days later. Maude sat ...