January 12, 2025 • 21 mins
A brief New Year's message from Coach Tony, host of the Endurance Experience Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sport has the power to change the world. It has
the power to inspire. It has the power to unite
people in a way that little else does. It speaks
to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create
hope where once there was only despair. It is more
powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs
(00:24):
in the face of all types of discrimination. These are
the words of Nelson Mandela. To day, however, we continue
to face challenges of extreme polarization and conflict that threatened
humanity despite our common ancestry. The denial of science in
(00:46):
favor of the appeal to our levels of comfort instead
of that which has been determined true by a preponderance
of evidence remains another existential threat. To paraphrase the scientist
Carl Sagan, a world at war with itself is doomed.
(01:07):
We are one planet. Perhaps it is sport that will
be a light to lead us out of the dark
in the time that we have on the planet. We
all share a responsibility to speak. Walk with me, and
let's make our voices heard together. The intersection of endurance, sport, health, fitness,
(01:39):
and life. This is the Endurance Experience podcast hosted Advice
Welcome to the Endurance Experience Podcast. I'm Tony Rich and
Happy New Year, and wellcomecome to twenty twenty five and
(02:04):
my Ceason seven. Twenty twenty five sounds very futuristic, doesn't it.
Time seems to be flying rapidly. And on that point,
that intro that you heard was the intro that I
(02:25):
created to promote the podcast when it originally launched back
in twenty nineteen. Seems not much has changed. There's still
pretty much the same state of the world. If you're
(02:45):
listening from the United States. We're coming off the back
of a very contentious election, a lot of polarization, not
being a hyperbolic but could be global implications. We'll see
what happens. But even sports, interestingly enough, got dragged into politics,
(03:05):
which I never thought that that would happen. I continue
to believe that sport is probably one of the most
important endeavors ever created by humanity. And I really can't
improve on that Nelson Mandela quote, which is one of
my favorite quotes about sport from the two thousand Laris
(03:31):
World Sport Awards, where Nelson Mandela gave that soliloquy about sport,
which was just incredible. So in twenty twenty four, we
saw the Olympics and unbelievable achievements in the world of sport,
broken records in the marathon, both in the men's and
(03:53):
women's marathon, so unbelievable performances and inspiring before performances in sport.
And we can only guess what we're going to see
in twenty twenty five global pandemic even farther in the
rear view mirror. And you heard me say on previous podcasts,
(04:13):
I always thought that we would see a resurgence in
respect for science and the scientific method. And I don't know,
I don't know if I was right. I don't think
that comment had aged as well my season six is
any indication you heard quite a number of experts, researchers, doctors, PhDs,
(04:38):
dietitians come on and tease apart science and evidence based
approaches from anti science, pseudoscience that has pervaded much of
the health, fitness, and sport landscapes. I continue to look
(05:00):
for other researchers and experts that will come on and
do some more of that in season seven. Speaking of
season seven, I am in the process of recording, editing,
waiting for confirmation back from guests, and it's going to
be a great one. Every time I think I can't
(05:20):
top the previous season, I top will come close to
topping that season. So this one's going to be pretty enlightening,
entertaining and informative, just like the others. If you're brand
new to the podcast and this is the first time
(05:41):
you're listening, you can go to one of my best
of episodes and you can get a good sampling of
the content of the podcast, the most recent Best of
the Endurance Experience volume six. Check that one out out.
As I continue to evaluate the future direction of the podcast,
(06:05):
I want to hear from people. What do people want
to hear about across health, fitness, and of course sport
and endurance sport. What conversations would you find enlightening and
important and always of course with an underpinning of what
(06:29):
does the best science available say. So if you have recommendations,
please send them my way. You can reach out to
contact at event Horizon dot tv all one word event
Horizon dot TV. I did also have some important information
(06:52):
that I wanted to share with the listeners of the podcast,
and that is I am in as an entrant in
the twenty twenty five World Marathon Challenge, and that is
the endeavor to run seven marathons on seven continents in
(07:13):
seven days, the first leg which starts on January thirty
first in Antarctica. This is something that I have had
on the radar screen for several years, and I've been
in contact with the race directors for several years. Timing
(07:36):
has always gotten away, but recently things came together at
the right time. You may recall I've had three podcasts
with three finishers of that event. My episode nineteen and
season two with Becca Peas she's now one of the
(07:58):
race directors, My episode thirty one in season four with
Michael Wardion he holds the record on that challenge, and
then my episode forty four and season five with the
race director of the Boston Marathon, Dave mcgilvy. The World
(08:20):
Marathon Challenge is the ultimate physical, mental, and logistical challenge
to run a marathon on each continent in seven days
and try to sleep, recover, refuel, and mentally reset on
(08:42):
a plane. I've undergone a litany of training, training that
on this level I haven't seen probably in a decade
or so. My body has held up up until this point.
It is going to procure my full twenty one years
(09:05):
of knowledge of training and coaching and experience, all of
my nutrition and fueling knowledge, race execution, strategy and planning,
as well as all of the technology involved. All of
it collectively what you've heard me describe as the science
of self propelled motion. But what I'm hoping is that
(09:28):
the data and information that I seek to garner from
this event, I aim to further inform and enhance my
training and coaching process, not to mention being a substantial
lifetime bucket list event for me and a crowning achievement.
(09:54):
What I've been hoping to do is return back to
fitness that I have seen in quite a number of years.
So we'll see what happens. Anything can happen in event
like this. There's the potential for bad weather, there's the
potential for failure, there's the potential for the potential for injury.
(10:20):
So I don't know what's going to happen. I do
know that I've always said, and I've always advised my
athletes of this, every once in a while, you need
to do something that completely tears you out of your frame,
something that makes you a little scared, nervous seeds doubt
(10:46):
and invokes a range of physiological suffering, mental suffering, and
what I call the forge shapes you and causes you
to travel through the wormhole. The forge that occurs as
(11:08):
a result of coming out of the other end of
that wormhole provides to you a lifelong and invaluable asset,
irrespective of what happens. So I'm moderating expectations, of course. Ideally,
(11:29):
I'd just like to finish, and I think some of
the support that I've gotten already from some of the
previous finishers that's going to help. I've been reaching out
to the former finishers of the event getting all the
logistics in order, and today is the twelfth, so I'm
(11:53):
into my final push. So I intend to have a
podcast as a follow up where I can bring another
finisher on who can talk about this endeavor, because I
think the scientific and the training underpinnings of all of
(12:17):
it could be informative for athletes to genuinely take and
import some of that wisdom into their training and nutrition
and fueling and race execution strategy protocols. All Right, the
(12:41):
last thing that I wish to do in this brief
New Year's message is to impart perhaps some coaching wisdom
onto you. If you're an athlete trying to plan your
new race season, or if you're just someone looking to
get some general inspiration. Bear in mind you've heard me before.
(13:08):
I am not the one to get into quote unquote
new Year's resolutions. I don't like generally the concept of
a New Year's resolution, just because I think you never
wait till the planet makes a rotation around the Sun
(13:29):
to decide to do something, and then wait for the
planet to do another rotation around the Sun, and then
decide to do something, and then wait for the planet
to make another rotation around the Sun, and so on.
Rather my position as a coach, who I tell athletes
this all the time, I think it's a general principle
(13:50):
people can carry on in their lives is that you
should always be in a continuous and consistent state of
evaluation of where you are and continued incremental iterative improvement.
(14:11):
Don't wait till the planet makes a rotation around themself.
You should be in that state all of the time
in your life, whether it's your personal life or whether
it's with your nutrition, your fitness, your sports, your recovery,
your health, your finances, with the people you decide to
(14:33):
let inside of your inner circle, all of it. The
athletes that I work with are very familiar with the
mantra that we've created. Take action, adapt and evolve and
never surrender. We wear it on our kits and on
racing apparel. And so I thought about this, and I
(14:53):
believe in the rule of three. The rule of three
is very powerful. I do things in threes. So here
are the three things that I will impart on you
for twenty twenty five. Number one, the most important muscle
(15:15):
in your body is your heart. And that is to
say that whether it's for general health you're working with
your primary care physician, your cardiologist, or whether you're training
to do an endurance event or run around the planet Earth,
the conditioning and the training of your heart to maximize
(15:40):
your cardiac output should be of central importance. If you're
training for an endurance event you are trying to meet
or exceed the demands said event, or if you're trying
to maintain or improve general health fitness, the conditioning of
(16:04):
your heart is of course very important. Of course, that
starts with having a really good general nutrition and fueling strategy.
Your heart will thank you for it. Number two turned
down social media and social influence. Far too often, especially
(16:29):
endurance athletes, get caught up in the performative aspect of
social media. I have seen that some athletes get too
caught up in the performative aspect and what people see
on social media, always worried about performing for the peanut
(16:53):
gallery or making sure that there's a camera set up
when they're training. And I get it, this is the
age of social media. But I generally, even when I'm
working with athletes, I generally recommend that athletes don't post
on platforms like Strava where they broadcast their performance. For
(17:16):
many reasons, I think that can derail in athletes training
psychology and their focus. In later years, I typically evolved
to use social media mainly as a publishing channel, solely
for event horizon, the podcast, and also just general information,
(17:40):
and that's how I recommend people use them. That way,
they can put all of their mental skills and athletes
psychology towards training and focusing on the consistency of the
training process. This is general knowledge that I think even
not athletes that are focusing on general health and fitness
(18:03):
can put to good use and Finally, number three, remember
the four ses of optimal performance in all of your
goals and endeavors. The four sees are a concept that
I didn't create, but I've come to adopt them and
(18:23):
teach them to athletes. The four sees are confidence, commitment, concentration,
and composure. And those are the four seas of optimal performance.
Obviously self explanatory. If you can take those four seas
(18:45):
and apply them to whatever it is you seek to
do in life, you will be well off in the end. Confidence, commitment, concentration,
and regardless of what happens to you, good, bad, or sideways,
(19:05):
always remember maintain your composure. Gray out the so called
supplements that you think you need to buy, the so
called super gadget that you think you need to buy,
the expensive bite components throwing money at your problems. Just
(19:25):
remember the four c's of optimal performance. With that, I
think I've reached the end of my New Year's message.
There's a lot going on in the world. Nevertheless, I
am happy that I've made it another year with you
on the Endurance Experience podcast. I'm glad you're listening and
(19:49):
continuing to take the journey with me and listening to
this brief message. Maybe you just might have heard something
that you can take with with you and consume for
your next trip or trips around the sun. I wish
you all are happy and healthy new Year. Follow Event
(20:14):
Horizon Endurance Sport on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and x for
training and nutrition programs and on demand learning. To become
a member of our Endurance Institute, or for complete archives
of podcasts, log on to our website, Event Horizon dot tv.
Sport has the power to change the world. It has
the power to inspire. It has the power to unite
people in a way that little else does. It speaks
to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create
hope where once there was only despair. It is more
powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs
(00:24):
in the face of all types of discrimination. These are
the words of Nelson Mandela. To day, however, we continue
to face challenges of extreme polarization and conflict that threatened
humanity despite our common ancestry. The denial of science in
(00:46):
favor of the appeal to our levels of comfort instead
of that which has been determined true by a preponderance
of evidence remains another existential threat. To paraphrase the scientist
Carl Sagan, a world at war with itself is doomed.
(01:07):
We are one planet. Perhaps it is sport that will
be a light to lead us out of the dark
in the time that we have on the planet. We
all share a responsibility to speak. Walk with me, and
let's make our voices heard together. The intersection of endurance, sport, health, fitness,
(01:39):
and life. This is the Endurance Experience podcast hosted Advice
Welcome to the Endurance Experience Podcast. I'm Tony Rich and
Happy New Year, and wellcomecome to twenty twenty five and
(02:04):
my Ceason seven. Twenty twenty five sounds very futuristic, doesn't it.
Time seems to be flying rapidly. And on that point,
that intro that you heard was the intro that I
(02:25):
created to promote the podcast when it originally launched back
in twenty nineteen. Seems not much has changed. There's still
pretty much the same state of the world. If you're
(02:45):
listening from the United States. We're coming off the back
of a very contentious election, a lot of polarization, not
being a hyperbolic but could be global implications. We'll see
what happens. But even sports, interestingly enough, got dragged into politics,
(03:05):
which I never thought that that would happen. I continue
to believe that sport is probably one of the most
important endeavors ever created by humanity. And I really can't
improve on that Nelson Mandela quote, which is one of
my favorite quotes about sport from the two thousand Laris
(03:31):
World Sport Awards, where Nelson Mandela gave that soliloquy about sport,
which was just incredible. So in twenty twenty four, we
saw the Olympics and unbelievable achievements in the world of sport,
broken records in the marathon, both in the men's and
(03:53):
women's marathon, so unbelievable performances and inspiring before performances in sport.
And we can only guess what we're going to see
in twenty twenty five global pandemic even farther in the
rear view mirror. And you heard me say on previous podcasts,
(04:13):
I always thought that we would see a resurgence in
respect for science and the scientific method. And I don't know,
I don't know if I was right. I don't think
that comment had aged as well my season six is
any indication you heard quite a number of experts, researchers, doctors, PhDs,
(04:38):
dietitians come on and tease apart science and evidence based
approaches from anti science, pseudoscience that has pervaded much of
the health, fitness, and sport landscapes. I continue to look
(05:00):
for other researchers and experts that will come on and
do some more of that in season seven. Speaking of
season seven, I am in the process of recording, editing,
waiting for confirmation back from guests, and it's going to
be a great one. Every time I think I can't
(05:20):
top the previous season, I top will come close to
topping that season. So this one's going to be pretty enlightening,
entertaining and informative, just like the others. If you're brand
new to the podcast and this is the first time
(05:41):
you're listening, you can go to one of my best
of episodes and you can get a good sampling of
the content of the podcast, the most recent Best of
the Endurance Experience volume six. Check that one out out.
As I continue to evaluate the future direction of the podcast,
(06:05):
I want to hear from people. What do people want
to hear about across health, fitness, and of course sport
and endurance sport. What conversations would you find enlightening and
important and always of course with an underpinning of what
(06:29):
does the best science available say. So if you have recommendations,
please send them my way. You can reach out to
contact at event Horizon dot tv all one word event
Horizon dot TV. I did also have some important information
(06:52):
that I wanted to share with the listeners of the podcast,
and that is I am in as an entrant in
the twenty twenty five World Marathon Challenge, and that is
the endeavor to run seven marathons on seven continents in
(07:13):
seven days, the first leg which starts on January thirty
first in Antarctica. This is something that I have had
on the radar screen for several years, and I've been
in contact with the race directors for several years. Timing
(07:36):
has always gotten away, but recently things came together at
the right time. You may recall I've had three podcasts
with three finishers of that event. My episode nineteen and
season two with Becca Peas she's now one of the
(07:58):
race directors, My episode thirty one in season four with
Michael Wardion he holds the record on that challenge, and
then my episode forty four and season five with the
race director of the Boston Marathon, Dave mcgilvy. The World
(08:20):
Marathon Challenge is the ultimate physical, mental, and logistical challenge
to run a marathon on each continent in seven days
and try to sleep, recover, refuel, and mentally reset on
(08:42):
a plane. I've undergone a litany of training, training that
on this level I haven't seen probably in a decade
or so. My body has held up up until this point.
It is going to procure my full twenty one years
(09:05):
of knowledge of training and coaching and experience, all of
my nutrition and fueling knowledge, race execution, strategy and planning,
as well as all of the technology involved. All of
it collectively what you've heard me describe as the science
of self propelled motion. But what I'm hoping is that
(09:28):
the data and information that I seek to garner from
this event, I aim to further inform and enhance my
training and coaching process, not to mention being a substantial
lifetime bucket list event for me and a crowning achievement.
(09:54):
What I've been hoping to do is return back to
fitness that I have seen in quite a number of years.
So we'll see what happens. Anything can happen in event
like this. There's the potential for bad weather, there's the
potential for failure, there's the potential for the potential for injury.
(10:20):
So I don't know what's going to happen. I do
know that I've always said, and I've always advised my
athletes of this, every once in a while, you need
to do something that completely tears you out of your frame,
something that makes you a little scared, nervous seeds doubt
(10:46):
and invokes a range of physiological suffering, mental suffering, and
what I call the forge shapes you and causes you
to travel through the wormhole. The forge that occurs as
(11:08):
a result of coming out of the other end of
that wormhole provides to you a lifelong and invaluable asset,
irrespective of what happens. So I'm moderating expectations, of course. Ideally,
(11:29):
I'd just like to finish, and I think some of
the support that I've gotten already from some of the
previous finishers that's going to help. I've been reaching out
to the former finishers of the event getting all the
logistics in order, and today is the twelfth, so I'm
(11:53):
into my final push. So I intend to have a
podcast as a follow up where I can bring another
finisher on who can talk about this endeavor, because I
think the scientific and the training underpinnings of all of
(12:17):
it could be informative for athletes to genuinely take and
import some of that wisdom into their training and nutrition
and fueling and race execution strategy protocols. All Right, the
(12:41):
last thing that I wish to do in this brief
New Year's message is to impart perhaps some coaching wisdom
onto you. If you're an athlete trying to plan your
new race season, or if you're just someone looking to
get some general inspiration. Bear in mind you've heard me before.
(13:08):
I am not the one to get into quote unquote
new Year's resolutions. I don't like generally the concept of
a New Year's resolution, just because I think you never
wait till the planet makes a rotation around the Sun
(13:29):
to decide to do something, and then wait for the
planet to do another rotation around the Sun, and then
decide to do something, and then wait for the planet
to make another rotation around the Sun, and so on.
Rather my position as a coach, who I tell athletes
this all the time, I think it's a general principle
(13:50):
people can carry on in their lives is that you
should always be in a continuous and consistent state of
evaluation of where you are and continued incremental iterative improvement.
(14:11):
Don't wait till the planet makes a rotation around themself.
You should be in that state all of the time
in your life, whether it's your personal life or whether
it's with your nutrition, your fitness, your sports, your recovery,
your health, your finances, with the people you decide to
(14:33):
let inside of your inner circle, all of it. The
athletes that I work with are very familiar with the
mantra that we've created. Take action, adapt and evolve and
never surrender. We wear it on our kits and on
racing apparel. And so I thought about this, and I
(14:53):
believe in the rule of three. The rule of three
is very powerful. I do things in threes. So here
are the three things that I will impart on you
for twenty twenty five. Number one, the most important muscle
(15:15):
in your body is your heart. And that is to
say that whether it's for general health you're working with
your primary care physician, your cardiologist, or whether you're training
to do an endurance event or run around the planet Earth,
the conditioning and the training of your heart to maximize
(15:40):
your cardiac output should be of central importance. If you're
training for an endurance event you are trying to meet
or exceed the demands said event, or if you're trying
to maintain or improve general health fitness, the conditioning of
(16:04):
your heart is of course very important. Of course, that
starts with having a really good general nutrition and fueling strategy.
Your heart will thank you for it. Number two turned
down social media and social influence. Far too often, especially
(16:29):
endurance athletes, get caught up in the performative aspect of
social media. I have seen that some athletes get too
caught up in the performative aspect and what people see
on social media, always worried about performing for the peanut
(16:53):
gallery or making sure that there's a camera set up
when they're training. And I get it, this is the
age of social media. But I generally, even when I'm
working with athletes, I generally recommend that athletes don't post
on platforms like Strava where they broadcast their performance. For
(17:16):
many reasons, I think that can derail in athletes training
psychology and their focus. In later years, I typically evolved
to use social media mainly as a publishing channel, solely
for event horizon, the podcast, and also just general information,
(17:40):
and that's how I recommend people use them. That way,
they can put all of their mental skills and athletes
psychology towards training and focusing on the consistency of the
training process. This is general knowledge that I think even
not athletes that are focusing on general health and fitness
(18:03):
can put to good use and Finally, number three, remember
the four ses of optimal performance in all of your
goals and endeavors. The four sees are a concept that
I didn't create, but I've come to adopt them and
(18:23):
teach them to athletes. The four sees are confidence, commitment, concentration,
and composure. And those are the four seas of optimal performance.
Obviously self explanatory. If you can take those four seas
(18:45):
and apply them to whatever it is you seek to
do in life, you will be well off in the end. Confidence, commitment, concentration,
and regardless of what happens to you, good, bad, or sideways,
(19:05):
always remember maintain your composure. Gray out the so called
supplements that you think you need to buy, the so
called super gadget that you think you need to buy,
the expensive bite components throwing money at your problems. Just
(19:25):
remember the four c's of optimal performance. With that, I
think I've reached the end of my New Year's message.
There's a lot going on in the world. Nevertheless, I
am happy that I've made it another year with you
on the Endurance Experience podcast. I'm glad you're listening and
(19:49):
continuing to take the journey with me and listening to
this brief message. Maybe you just might have heard something
that you can take with with you and consume for
your next trip or trips around the sun. I wish
you all are happy and healthy new Year. Follow Event
(20:14):
Horizon Endurance Sport on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and x for
training and nutrition programs and on demand learning. To become
a member of our Endurance Institute, or for complete archives
of podcasts, log on to our website, Event Horizon dot tv.
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