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There’s interesting, right, so there’s when you go the idea of going into freezing cold water in the middle of winter with no clothes on, basically getting naked and going into the freezing river in the middle of the winter when it’s anywhere from zero, whatever it’s on ...

You and I both wish that you weren't watching this video with me, and you might be going, Why? Don't you want video views? Yes, but unfortunately today you have calf pain, which is why you're here talking with me looking at this video.

I took it upon myself to go visit some bike shops wherever I raced in, you know, in North America and showed them the bike and let them ride it and and the soft ride folks noticed that and said, Well, why don’t you stop racing and be our sales manager? 

So we're going to talk about that today. That was my best impression of Salvador Dali Scream or maybe Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, depending on, I guess, what kind of culture you pay attention to. But there are a lot of common fears around running, and you might think tha...

I know you can't help yourself, you're looking for that magic bullet, right? You want the thing that's going to make you faster and you've seen something about probiotics and gut microbiome and how it makes you run better and you can digest food more easily.

So you and I both know that hard work is a prerequisite if you want to be fast. But are the pros really working that much harder than you and I when we go out to run? So today I want to talk about what actually makes a runner fast.

Adventure racing is is quite a niche sport to begin with, so it’s not like there’s a lot of money in it, and I want to clarify it’s different than like obstacle course racing, which a lot of people often call like adventure racing. 

I know you love running because you're here with me in this video and you're watching me talk about running all the time. But you may be wondering to yourself, is there anything I can do to be better at running that isn't running?

They are the workhorse of your running life. Yet we often neglect them, we don't pay attention and take care of them how they should be. What am I talking about?

I was raised on a poultry farm, actually, I’m from Saskatchewan and I grew up on a mixed grain and poultry farm, and so I knew it from more the kind of, I would say, business aspect of it.