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The Victor Gets to Write History - Brian "Wolfie" Peterson (opens the original)
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Brian “Wolfie” Peterson joins me for a conversation about competition, ego, suffering, and some of the unwritten rules shaping ultrarunning right now. We get into whether running is actually building resilience or sometimes just becoming another crutch, the role ego and anger can play in performance, and why maybe you don’t have to smile your way through every hard thing. From there, we dig into the current evolution of Backyard Ultras: Phil Gore’s solo effort, pacing and sleep deprivation, the
The Leadville 100 Crew Debacle - Blake Bender (opens the original)
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A 20 second crew meeting in the middle of the Leadville 100 turned into nearly 400,000 views and a whole lot of opinions. Blake Bender joins me to unpack what actually happened at Twin Lakes, why a quick conversation with his family and crew pissed off so much of the internet, and the weird pace shaming conversation that followed. But this episode goes well beyond the controversy. Blake spent nearly a decade coaching college basketball before losing that identity, finding ultra running at 30, an
From Major League Baseball to Mental Performance - John Baker (opens the original)
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John Baker has spent most of his life figuring out what allows people to perform when things get hard. He played professional baseball for more than a decade, reaching the Major Leagues with the Marlins, Padres, and Cubs before eventually moving from the field into coaching, mental skills, player development, and performance psychology. His career would ultimately take him from being an MLB player to helping build and lead performance systems responsible for hundreds of professional players and
The Art of Balance: Sobriety, Cocktails, and Endurance - Josh Harris (opens the original)
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Josh Harris and I have more than a few things in common. We both built careers behind the bar, found sobriety along the way, and eventually discovered a very different kind of obsession in endurance running. Josh has been sober for 22 years, spending nearly his entire professional career in the cocktail industry without drinking. We talk about what sobriety looked like in an industry that wasn't nearly as accepting of it two decades ago, how bartending actually helped build his confidence in ear
Building a Life on Purpose - Shelby Harrington (opens the original)
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Episode Description What happens when the thing that once defined you is taken away? In this episode, I sit down with Shelby Harrington to unpack a story that's about far more than Ironman racing. Shelby shares how she went from being a single mom with no endurance background to signing up for an Ironman in the middle of one of the hardest seasons of her life. Along the way, we talk about training without headphones, learning to embrace discomfort, recovering from a major cycling accident just w
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