The Tenacious Cyclist

The Tenacious Cyclist is a podcast about ultra-endurance, chronic illness, adaptive physiology, and what it takes to keep moving when the body does not follow normal rules. Hosted by The Tenacious Cyclist, an adaptive cyclist and ultra-endurance athlete, the show explores the reality of riding and rebuilding under extreme physiological constraint. After more than 19 years in a wheelchair, he returned to movement and built a system he calls Prosthetic Physiology: a framework for replacing unreliable autonomic function with structure, timing, feedback, and adaptation. This is not a podcast about empty motivation. It is about architecture. Pain, pacing, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, recovery, endurance strategy, inclusive cycling, mixed-ability challenge riding, and the mechanics of staying functional when medicine has no clean template. Expect solo episodes, real ride analysis, hard-earned lessons from ultra-distance cycling, and blunt conversations about resilience, system design, disability, and the science of not stopping.