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.

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Highlights

  • 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...

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