Van Life in America’s Highest City (training for the Leadville 100) [Video]

Join us for a week of van life as Nate finishes his last training runs for the Leadville 100! Then we hope you enjoy our friend Rick’s awesome story about having 1 lung and attempting his biggest challenge ever. Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code KARAANDNATE for an extra 4 months free at https://surfshark.com/karaandnate

This is one of our longer videos! And also one of our favorites. Spending the summer in Colorado preparing for the Leadville 100 has been a really great season for us. Witnessing Nate transform into an ultra athlete has been such a joy to experience. During such a weird year navigating my epilepsy diagnosis, this challenge has been the best distraction and goal for the both of us! We hope you enjoy the journey. We’re also just overjoyed that we got to tell our great friend Rick’s heroic story! Stick around for the second half to learn how Rick has defied the odds by living an epic life with one lung, and finally conquered the Leadville 100 mtb 🥹

Episode 936 | Filmed August 2024 | Leadville, CO

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Who are Kara and Nate?!
Watch our documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFv4iF8wgg&t=1s

Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.

We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted 😉

So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.

Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this channel to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.

4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to 😉 Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time!

After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time international traveling! And now we are in our 9TH YEAR of finding the best adventures the world has to offer 🙂

We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey!

00:00:00 Training for Leadville 100 run
00:02:12 Day 1: crewing 😉
00:24:52 Cooking with kara
00:28:01 Day 2: Last big training run!
00:30:42 Dramatic story…
00:44:55 Leadville 100 MTB race day!
00:48:41 Rick’s near death experience
01:01:46 50 miles in
01:18:34 Bloops