Welcome | Welcome to Episode #105 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. We're your hosts Rich Soares and Bill Plock and we are glad you are joining us for another week of endurance interviews and discussion. Khem is on her way to Thailand and then to Nepal to hike to Everest base camp. We wish her safe travels. Hope you enjoyed the new intro music. That was Little Stereo by the Teddybears. Merry Christmas to our listeners - we have an excellent interview as our gift to you this weekend! We have ultra and adventure racer Travis Macy who is the author of The Ultra Mindset: an endurance champion's 8 core principles for success in business, sports and life. |
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Last week's guest | Thanks to last week's guest, professional cyclist Jillian Bearden for candidly sharing her story about her journey through the pro cycling ranks, through her transition and trail blazing work with the International Olympic Committee and USA Cycling. We received some great feedback. If you haven't heard the interview yet, go back and check it out on episode #104. I did have a fact brought to my attention that Michelle Dumaresq is a Canadian professional downhill mountain bike competitor and post-operative trans woman. She competes with other professional female downhill mountain bike racers and raced downhill as a pro in 2002. It's hard to be sure, but that would make Michelle a pro cyclist some years before Jillian. That said, if you simply type into Google "who is the first pro transgender cyclist?", my browser spits back Jillian Bearden - perhaps from my search history - perhaps the assumption is road cycling. Regardless, Jillian is clearly the athlete who blazed the trail with IOC and USAC. Great courage by Jillian! Can't wait to see her race in 2018. Thanks to our listeners for staying engaged and keeping information coming our way. We want to make sure we have our facts straight and share additional perspectives or angles to our stories. |
Discussion Teasers | After the interview we are going to talk about the power of smiling when going to the pain cave or when the going gets tough in endurance racing or training. We also have a discussion on other activities that you can do in the off season to develop your gluteus medius, including rollerblading and skate skiing. |
Interview Setup | Travis Macy summited glacial peaks in the French Alps, rappelled into vast limestone caves in China, and ran through parched deserts in Utah. Most famously, he won one of the country's marquee ultra-distance events: Leadman, a high-altitude series of super-long-distance races, culminating with a 100-mile mountain biking race and a 100-mile trail run. Macy accomplished it without exceptional strength, speed, or flexibility, and without high-tech performance labs or performance-enhancing drugs. His secret? A precise and particular outlook he calls the "Ultra Mindset," principles for daily life that are neither mysterious nor the sole province of ascetics or elite athletes: embrace fear, rewrite stories we tell ourselves, and master the art of seeking help, among others. By applying the principles such as "It's All Good Mental Training," "When you have no choice, anything is possible," and "Never quit...except when you should quit" to other areas of life, anyone can find success that otherwise would have seemed impossible. We're going to get into the interview right now with Travis Macy. |
Interview | Travis Macy |
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Host Discussion Topics | Travis Macy reflections:
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Upcoming MHE Interviews | MHE upcoming interviews:
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Closing | If you are enjoying the show, please let us know by going on iTunes or your podcast player and giving us a review. Be sure you are subscribed in iTunes so you get the show automatically downloaded on Saturday evening and recommend Mile High Endurance to a friend. Again Merry Christmas! That's it for the show. Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the endurance journey! |