
In Between mit Jana und Stephan
Jana Kesenheimer, Stephan Wieser
15 episodes listed below
Ultra cycling from the messy middle.
The gist
Jana and Stephan talk from the messy middle of cycling life: training, crashes, gravel trips, ultra races, photoshoots, pizza plans, and doubts. The show suits listeners who like endurance sport with lived detail rather than tidy instruction.
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About In Between mit Jana und Stephan
In Between mit Jana und Stephan is a German-language cycling show with an ultra-endurance heart and a loose conversational shape. It does not rush. Jana and Stephan circle through the details that usually fall out of cleaner race coverage: the road accident, the heavy bike on public transport, the hunger hole, the strange motel, the question of whether a planned break from recording is really a break. The show treats long-distance riding as both sport and social weather. Races matter, but not only as results. Traka, TCR, Lost.101, Balkan travel, gravel weekends, and shoots become ways to talk about confidence, fear, age, performance, friendship, and what happens when plans meet real roads. There is plenty of insider texture. Listeners hear about endurance peaks, bike fitting, analog film, photography, race directors, dot tracking, and the awkward logistics around moving through places alone. The tone stays grounded. A conversation can open with a joke about a song written about Jana, then land on FLINTA riding communities and the need to build physical self-trust. Another episode can bring in Sophie for a candid account of safety concerns during ultra racing and the relief of being taken seriously. Nils Lengner adds a photographer's angle on authentic cycling images, shoots, and why documentary work still matters when polished product imagery is easy to manufacture. Ziri brings a younger rider's view, tracing how school projects, parents, class trips, and spontaneous rides can turn admiration into actual movement. The show also has room for messier maintenance talk about its own future. Episode ten looks back at what has worked, including technical episodes, sleep, rules, recovery, and a conversation about ADS and ADHS. That self-awareness matters because In Between mit Jana und Stephan is not pretending to be a service podcast. Its value is the human sorting-out. It suits riders, dot-watchers, endurance fans, and cycling-scene listeners who like anecdotes that take the scenic route. The best moments feel like post-ride debriefs where gear talk, fear, ambition, and pizza plans all belong in the same breath.
Made for: For German-speaking cycling listeners who enjoy ultra-distance stories, gravel culture, race logistics, and reflective conversations from inside the scene. It especially suits riders who want more than results and gear lists.
What sets it apart: The show's strength is its willingness to stay with the untidy parts of endurance cycling: fear, fatigue, confidence, friendship, accidents, and practical road chaos. It turns insider bike talk into lived conversation without sanding off the pauses and detours.
In their own words
Zwei Perspektiven aus dem Zwischendrin. Jana Kesenheimer als erfahrene Ultrafahrerin und Wissenschaftlerin, Stephan Wieser als Filmemacher, Fotograf, Beobachter und Teil der Szene. Gemeinsam sprechen sie über Erlebnisse auf und neben dem Rad, über das Unterwegssein, über Übergänge zwischen Alltag und Ausnahmezustand – und über all das, was sich nicht klar einordnen lässt. In between ist kein Erklär- oder Trainingspodcast. Es geht um Gespräche, Einblicke und Gedanken aus dem Zwischenraum: zwischen Leistung und Leben, Vorbereitung und Chaos, Bewegung und Stillstand. Ein Podcast für alle, die lange Wege gehen – oder verstehen wollen, was sie mit Menschen machen.
Why you'd press play
A cat darts under the bike; soon you are comparing race motivation with Tour de France ambition.
Press play if you want
- bikepacking stories where missed destinations and analog film rolls matter as much as mileage
- ultra-racing talk honest enough to include hunger holes, dog anxiety, and fading sprint muscles
Episodes
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Folge15 - Jana's Traka Adventure Race
Hidden gem["Jana says Traka in Girona turned into a 560-kilometer gravel race where she spent 27 hours and 45 minutes on the bike and finished third among the women.", "The episode opens with a Sunday ride between Antolling and Glonn, where an orange cat ran under Jana's wheel and then became a finish-line joke when Cynthia brought a 16-day-old cat baby.", "Jana talks through the race setup in detail: 50mm Tracer tubeless tires, aero bars, a Supernova battery light, a one-piece suit, and a bathroom stop that took 3 minutes and 10 seconds.", "Later, the conversation turns to Maddie, Marai, Victor, NADA, drafting rules, route-checking accusations, and the way Traka's packed field made professionalization and criticism harder to ignore."]
May 7, 2026·45m·3 clips - 2
Folge14 - Flinta Rookie Voices und Geschwafel
Hidden gemIn Between mit Jana und Stephan turns to first-time ultra racing, Lost Dot 101, and the logistics around a 1,200-kilometer route from Santiago de Compostela.
Apr 22, 2026·55m·4 clips - 3
Folge13 - Geschichten und Geschwafel aus dem Balkan
Hidden gemIn Between mit Jana und Stephan centers on Jana's five-day Balkan ride with Victor Bosoni, the TCA winner who once rode 500 extra kilometers after forgetting his passport.
Apr 8, 2026·43m·2 clips - 4
Folge12 - Gästin Siri erzählt von ihrer Schularbeit über Jana (8.Klasse)
Hidden gem["Siri, 14, says she wrote a 20-plus-page school biography about Jana after her father showed her Jana's first ultra-cycling film.", "The conversation moves from a family bikepacking habit that started with a first-grade plan to 'travel with the polar bears' to annual rides north from Berlin and Hamburg toward Copenhagen.", "Siri also explains her practical project: a custom bikepacking bag shaped around her small frame, seam allowances, and waterproofing limits.", "Jana closes by pointing to a film audience that is about 90 percent men, mostly over 35, and by arguing that younger women need visible cycling role models."]
Apr 1, 2026·47m·3 clips - 5
Folge11 - Fotograf Nils Laengner als Gast. Und der Mausflug
Hidden gemJana und Stephan schildern eine 550-Kilometer-Gravel-Tour von Lustenau über Singen und den Schwarzwald bis zum Zellerhorn, inklusive Fähre auf dem Bodensee, Lasagne und einer Dusche ohne Wände in einer schäbigen Airbnb-Unterkunft.
Mar 25, 2026·59m·4 clips - 6
Folge10 - Schwafeln, Radunfall und Zukunft von "in between"
Stephan describes an 80-kilometre racing-bike crash in Bavaria caused by a sideways nudge on a straight road, and Jana relates it to her own jaw-break accident and to exposure therapy.
Mar 4, 2026·51m·2 clips - 7
Folge9 - Sofie über ihr TCR - confidence gap
Hidden gemJana and Sophie discuss why only about 80 women started the 2025 Transcontinental Race (TCR) alongside roughly 300 men, despite the TCR Women's 100 campaign.
Feb 23, 2026·55m·2 clips - 8
Folge8 - Wiebke Lühmann, Ultra-Reisen, Ultra-Racen?
Feb 16, 2026·58m - 9
Folge7 - HowtoUltracyclingrace: Rad, Taschen und Setup
Feb 9, 2026·1h - 10
Folge6 - Regeneration bei/nach/vor einem Ultracyclingrace
Feb 3, 2026·1h 9m - 11
Folge5 - AD(H)S und Ultrasport mit Psychotherapeutin Eva Sperger
Jan 20, 2026·1h 8m - 12
Folge4 - Regeln oder Ethos oder... Self Supported Ultra Cycling
Jan 14, 2026·51m - 13
Folge3 - Hörer:innenfragen: Musik, Training, Routenplanung …
Jan 7, 2026·54m - 14
Folge2 - Ein Ultra Rennen filmen und dabei gefilmt werden.
Dec 30, 2025·1h - 15
Folge1 - Der Pilot
Dec 23, 2025·51m