Call of a Life Time Season 1 - Episode 3: Crusher in the Tushar (Women’s Race)

The riders fight mental and physical fatigue as they hit the halfway point of the inaugural Life Time Grand Prix in Beaver, Utah, at Life Time Crusher in the Tushar presented by The Creamery. As riders like Sarah Sturm and Haley Hunter Smith try to climb the Grand Prix standings, UNBOUND Gravel winner Sofia Gomez Villafane looks to defend her Crusher title across 10,000 feet of brutal climbing in the stifling July heat - a.k.a. “the toughest 69.9 miles on the planet.”
A film by Cold Collaborative
Executive Producers: Kimo Seymour & Michelle Duffy Smith
Directed by Shannon Vandivier
Producers:
Bowen Parrish
Shannon Vandivier
Chelsea Jolly
Rebekah Sands
Ryan Cross
Edited by Blake Campbell
Assistant Editing by Tyler Domingue and Jill Garreffi
Field Producer: Chelsea Jolly
Consulting Producer: Payson McElveen
Cinematography by Bowen Parrish, Brian Freeman, Nathan McBride, Tyler Domingue, Chelsea Jolly, Austin Alvarado, Benjamin Kraushaar and Shannon Vandivier
Special Thank You to: 2022 Life Time Grand Prix athletes, the Life Time team and our partners at Mazda.
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[@hollerdollar]

Sarah is such a breath of fresh air! Gotta say that I love Haley's approach of being self-aware enough to know when she's over analyzing and bring it back and live in the moment and enjoy it all. Looking forward to seeing what both of these ladies do in 2023.

[@edot2541]

Sarah Sturm just gained another fan. I’m so obsessed with her energy. Her smile, views, and free spirit is all so infectious!😍🥰

[@alexben927]

Saw her at local event over the weekend, she’s awesome

[@dirtyclassroom]

😊😅

[@sjbachar15]

It’s all in the San Juan’s.

[@scottfast03]

Totally agree! Sarah seems awesome. Total opposite of Sofia!

[@tehjawsome]

Sarah Sturm effing rocks.

[@skylerschwendeman]

Sarah Sturm seems so cool. She has a new huge fan over here!

[@movingpointcc]

Season 1 has been a game-changer! 🎥🚴‍♂ It's an essential part of our collection. Already covered Season 2, but this is where the love affair with cycling began.

[@emilyjordan2208]

Love hearing the women’s stories and watching them race!

[@scottnelson3956]

I like Sofia’s mindset. She knows that she is one of the best. And you have to have the mindset that nobody can beat you. That is big when you start each race.

[@richde]

The Crusher is such an awesome event, can't wait until July.

[@sjbachar15]

“You’re allergic to poultry” killed me 😂

[@bradallenfitness3516]

The Words said at 21:10 are fire!!!

[@ParzivalHB]

Sarah is definitely cool and personable, but i don’t see anything wrong with Sofia’s warrior mindset even it is comes off as arrogant. At the end of day winning pays the bills for these athletes.

[@Jobother]

maybe i'm coming from F1 and that colors my view of this, but i love when competitors have attitude. you're professional athletes, you gotta believe you're the best in the world with every fiber of your being.

[@WildOutdoorLiving]

I’ve been soo excited to watch this, thank you! Just wish it was longer.

[@LifeTimeGrandPrix]

Did you watch all the episodes? There’s 6!

[@hunterhill9556]

Longer wym? It’s like 3 hours of footage

[@WildOutdoorLiving]

Oh definitely, they are all great! The Crusher specifically is what I get most excited for though.

[@michaeltalles8512]

Sarah is cool….Sofia is full of her self. What place did she finish in the series? Mo would have crushed them all….RIP.

[@buzzman4860]

Did the film maker ask Sofia to talk shit about the others?

[@freeffree4133]

Of course, but we want the drama.

[@michaeltalles2239]

No she does that on her own

[@birdbro1990]

These videos are fantastic, not sure how it took 4 months for them to find me

[@MisterSkogen]

Good stuff here. Thank you for publishing this.

[@lanceoa]

I can’t stop 🛑 watching 👀 help!

[@LifeTimeGrandPrix]

Hope you caught this season's drop too - binge away!

[@sjb095]

I became a Sofia fan here

[@FEAR_CB]

We all did. Very likable!!!

[@michaeltalles2239]

Did you mean Sarah?

[@merijnj9248]

I think it's weird they kinda ignore the fact that Mo was murdered, I mean I get it but it is still weird

[@mattc8046]

Excuse me what happened?

[@freeffree4133]

Is it? Why you trying to be Debbie Downer?

[@freeffree4133]

​@@mattc8046Girlfriend when crazy and killed the woman a cyclist was banging on the side.

[@holdsteadfast]

Sofia says a lot of stuff I don’t like but I do appreciate how honest she is about women in sports… it’s goofy to fight for equality and have a certain amount of spots set aside for your specific “gender/sex” and then not show up… I’ve experienced this across many sports, a local basketball league I’m in had to cut off 4 teams of men cause they didn’t have enough women to add to those teams for it to be a coed league

[@brettstenson]

Sarah rules so hard - best attitude in the game

[@brian_simmons_]

Sofia's competitive attitude and confidence is one of the things that makes an olympic level athlete. She knows she's a badass and won't apologize for it. 🤘

[@marshallheckman]

Why did yall not advertise this more get the word out local... yall could've set some great numbers put in magazines put on all the forums on everything u can afford dang u could make this a live event next year if u did this right with background stories and points system

[@owenlittle5411]

Sofia does not come off as the most graceful competitor....

[@kennethv2340]

She seems to be trying a little to hard to come off that way IMO

[@MaxRothFitness]

thats racing

[@Voodoochile65]

She's definitely confident lol

[@jaythomas2659]

Do we say the same thing about male racers? Do we expect women to act a certain way? I find it refreshing that she speaks her truth.

[@PlayingBikes]

@@jaythomas2659 yes we do say it about males. We aren’t as polite when we say it about men. It’s an interesting dynamic to say the least

[@paulgilliland2992]

Isn’t this merely an extension of the professional world tour ? Look who’s sponsoring these events Garmin is a multi billion dollar company. It was inevitable even though the organizers said it wouldn’t happen ever.

[@LifeTimeGrandPrix]

We're happy to support the athletes racing at the front of these races, of course. But anyone lining up for these events is taking on a big challenge, going further and taking on goals at every step!

[@altosmusiclab2248]

personalities are great; tour de france forgets the riders; these video's forget the race..... good news would cover the tires when they slip out... 'THAT was ricardo on pirrelli tires.... riding for Trek.

[@BikeLifewithRob]

Try the Marji 100 to endure more suffering

[@jasonmcginnis]

Sophia is hard to listen too and made this episode almost unwatchable. I've never heard a cyclist talk about how great they are so much.

[@MrGsaas]

This series has confirmed that the worst thing about cycling are the cyclists, with the exception of Sarah Sturm of course

[@andywkeith]

Sophia makes this episode almost impossible to watch. Can you be more conceited? Sarah on the other hand, is the absolute best. Hope good things come to her!

[@nickyburnell]

It's so hard to watch this (Brilliant) film with it's brilliant atheletes when they keep saying, "Like". HUNDREDS of times, it's inane.

[@SergioGonzalez-cg9ns]

im 35, is it too late for me to get into this?

[@jacobmaldonado3951]

Not too late ride.... definitely too late to compete

[@nathanhansen5796]

Winthrop Washington 99 miles worse roads same climbing

[@tomtreece4081]

At minute 24:21, there is a quick glance at a purple Canyon Grizl with the brakes on the right fork. That isn't normal, what is going on there? The drivetrain is on the left....so confused.

[@friendofships]

Flipped footage, happens all the time.

[@myhumps2730]

After riding the entire Grand Prix, my Tushar was pretty sore

[@LifeTimeGrandPrix]

+1 lol