Professional World Tour bike racer turned professional bike… rider, Ted King is now an ambassador for the general sport of cycling. He’s eager to put more peoples’ butts on bikes, which takes the form of dabbling in gravel, coaching, hosting events such as King Challenge, consulting on a number of organizations and other events, and just trying to perpetuate the excitement for the sport of cycling.
Biography
DOB: 01.31.1983
Home: Born and raised in Brentwood, NH. Richmond, VT is now home.
Family: Amazing wife, Laura King. Daughter, Hazel; son, Hayden. Two loving parents and older brother Robbie.
Teams:
2005 U23 National Team
2006-2007 Priority Health
2008 Bissell
2009-2010 Cervelo TestTeam
2011-2012 Liquigas-Cannondale
2013-2014 Cannondale Pro Cycling
2015 Cannondale-Garmin
Education: Middlebury College, 2005.
Economics and Mathematics
Height: 189cm
Weight: no longer my race weight of 74kg. I now measure myself in stone and I’m about 12 and half of ‘em.
Favorite food: Pumpkin rocks my world. Quick series of examples: pumpkin pie, baked pumpkin drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with garlic, rosemary, salt, and pepper. Try it pureed and used as the sauce to a pizza. Now that’s good. Plus maple syrup. Quick and simple and from a tree, the way life intended.
2021:
1st, Last Best Ride
1st, Swamp Fox Gravel 200
4th, Unbound
4th, Vermont Overland
6th, Gravel Locos 150
2020:
Created DIYGravel
1st, FKT Arkansas High Country Race
2019:
1st, SBTGRVL
1st, unPAved Pennyslvania
1st, The Epic 150
2nd, LandRun 100
2nd, The Rift
3rd, Belgian Waffle Ride
8th, Dirty Kanza
13th, Leadville
2018:
1st, Dirty Kanza
1st, Grinduro
1st, Rasputitsa Redemption
1st, Vermont Overland
2nd, Belgian Waffle Ride
2016:
1st, Dirty Kanza
11th Leadville
2013-2015:
Tour of San Luis, Spring Classics, Tour of California, Tour de France, Tour of Utah, Tour of Alberta, Quebec - Montreal
2012:
6th most winning racer in the entire pro peloton (that is, being in races where my teammate wins the race)
1st, Vermont 50
2011:
USA Pro National Championships, 3rd
1st, Vermont 50
2010:
Giro d'Italia, final GC 114th
Vuelta a Castilla y Leon stage 1, 10th
Housatonic Hills, 1st
Green Mountain Stage Race stage 1, 1st
2009:
Crusher of the Giro d'Italia (I use the word "crusher" to mean I finished the three week race in 111th while riding Carlos Sastre into 3rd and we won 5 stages)
Vuelta a Burgos, sprint jersey
Michael Schott Memorial Marblehead Circuit Race, 1st
Lake Auburn Road Race, 1st
Boston Mayor's Criterium, 4th... but if I were a bit smarter and raced again, I'd win.
2008:
Ranked 2nd overall in North American individual standings. 1st American.
1st, Hanes Park Criterium
1st, Joe Martin Stage Race, stage 1
1st, Tour of the Hilltowns
Tour of Georgia, KOM jersey, stage 4
3rd, Fitchburg Cycling Classic GC
Some of my Favorites:
Books:
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
Pretty much anything by Bill Bryson
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Movies:
Aspen Extreme
Blood Diamond
Christmas Vacation
The Departed
Dumb and Dumber
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
The Royal Tanenbaums
Things to do:
Read.
Write.
Travel.
Cook. In particular, I like to bake. Some say that isn't manly, but it's a true man who can admit that. If you disagree, I'll whip up an extraordinarily hot souffle and we sit down, enjoy it, and discuss...
Media
Le Tour:
I'm proud of this one
Podium Cafe, chat interview
Touring for Right to Play - Rider of the Week