Joe McConaughy on the PCT Speed Record, Hallucinating at the Finish, and Why 50–90% of Every Race Is a Grind
Joe McConaughy was a college miler who had never raced anything longer than a mile when he Googled "run the Pacific Crest Trail" at 22 years old. 53 days and 2,600 miles later, he held the speed rec...
11 Aug 27min
John Kelly on the Barkley Marathons, Quitting From the Lead, and Training for Real Adversity
Only twenty people have finished the Barkley Marathons in forty years. John Kelly has finished it twice. But between those two finishes, he quit from first place after two loops because he already kne...
28 Jul 24min
Suicide Prevention, Toxic Environments, and the Phone Call That Saved a Marine: Lee Stuckey
A Marine officer, professional MMA fighter, and jiu-jitsu practitioner came home from his third combat deployment in Mosul and sat down at a table with a loaded Glock. His mother called his phone at t...
21 Jul 23min
Karl Meltzer on Running 100 Hundred-Milers, the DNFs That Haunt Him, and Why Anyone Can Do It
Ninety-four 100-mile races finished. 14 DNFs. A bartending shift that turned into a Red Bull sponsorship. Karl Meltzer, known as the "Speedgoat," sits down with Joe De Sena to talk about what it act...
14 Jul 24min
Tina Seelig on Luck, Gratitude, and Why Your Phone Is Killing Your Opportunities
A Stanford professor who has spent 27 years studying how opportunity works says the device in your pocket is destroying your luck. Tina Seelig, PhD in neuroscience, builder of Stanford's entreprene...
7 Jul 24min
Joel Del Rosario on Surviving an IED in Iraq, Losing His Memory, and Owning Every Decision After
Joel Del Rosario enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2005 because a girl asked him to. She left him with a Dear John letter while he was deployed to Iraq. Then an IED nearly killed him. His mother receive...
30 Jun 21min
11 Years Pro Soccer: Hugh Roberts on Getting Benched, Training Alone, and Never Quitting
Spartan Race started as an idea written on a napkin during a financial crisis. No business plan. Limited money. No guarantee any of it would work. Brian Duncanson, one of the original architects behin...
23 Jun 25min
