Ash Smith, is responsible for the world’s first point-to-point multi day enduro race, the Trans-Provence and now the Stone King Rally. With the first ever Stone King Rally starting today, we sat down to find out more. We discuss Ash’s background, the Trans-Provence and starting a brewery. As well as finding out all about the Stone King Rally. Way more than just an enduro race, Stone King offers us all the chance to sample some of the best mountain biking adventures on the planet, through a non-race format that is scalable, sustainable and will help to benefit everyone along the route. It’s a super interesting project and something that I’m certainly super keen to ride, and I hope you enjoy finding out all about it. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Ash Smith.

You can find out all about the Stone King by heading over to stonekingrally.org, you can follow the race on Instagram @stonekingrally and Facebook @stonekingrally.

The book that Ash mentioned in the episode is 'This Naked Mind' by Annie Grace and is available here.

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