Ed Veal opens up about the intensity that makes him both a feared competitor and a transformative teammate—and why cycling saved him during his darkest moment. He also walks through a terrifying crash at the Intelligencia Cup in Chicago that left him with a brain bleed, broken vertebra, and shattered humerus, sharing what it taught him about mortality and perspective.
"High performance happens in the shadows because that encapsulates all those scenarios—do the session when you're sick, when you're not motivated, when nobody's watching, when you're gonna get no credit for doing the session."
"Just give me everything you got and I will I would love you to death just give me everything you got."
"The Garmin shows 52k an hour dead stop... the indent on this helmet, the blood inside of it—it's a Keepsake. It saved my life."
“cycling came to me at my darkest time I you know I was going through a divorce um you know I I had my high school sweetheart um you know we were together 13 years we have a baby together and it's Fallen apart and we're growing apart and uh you know I just needed an outlet and it was I didn't go looking for it it found me”
“high performance happens in the shadows you know you don't get it's like it's due to session when you're not motivated to do the session do the session when nobody's watching do the session when you're gonna get no credit for doing the session do the session if you're sick do the session if you don't feel like doing the session that's high performance”
“I I feel like when I leave the house you know I you know I'll make sure okay there's a standard some people's standards need to come up you know some people are I put them so high they could never meet them and they're always miserable okay so it's like making sure your standards in line and trying to live up to it”
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