In 30+ years of endurance racing the range of emotions I have felt is wide and varied. Joy, sadness, elation, relief, pain, despair, satisfaction, competition, connection, adversity.

Sometimes racing can be transcendent. An almost out of body experience where despite the desire to stop you find a way to keep going.

As humans we love to see people overcome challenges. Racing provides drama, stories and raw emotion. It can break us down and expose our strength and weaknesses.

We could talk about this for hours, there's so much to unpack.

In this episode Matt and I talk about:

• expectations we place on ourselves in races
• race selection
• An analysis of Ironman, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly https://www.buzzsprout.com/1989695/episodes/10952610
• why racing is hard
• why people race and don't race
• comparison
• WHY with Nikki Matthews - Coming Back from the Brink https://www.buzzsprout.com/1989695/episodes/10943982
• https://coastalfive.co.nz/
• defining success and failure
• benefits of racing
• community
• dynamics of racing
• make friends with the unknown - https://drchatterjee.com/jonny-wilkinson-why-everything-you-know-about-success-is-wrong/
• sign up to mid-week motivations https://worldmultisport.com/