#083 Matt Wragg
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
Matt Wragg is a professional photographer, writer and editor-at-large for Pinkbike. Matt has been in the industry for many years, he's travelled the world for numerous projects and was one of the first photographers to actively shoot enduro. Matt recently posted a blog article on Pinkbike called 'The Day I Lost Control Of My Brain' where he openly talked about his struggles with mental health and the resulting anxiety/depression.
On this episode we discuss everything from how he first got involved with mountain biking, travelling the world, photography and take a deep dive into his battles with mental health.
You can read Matt's blog here:
https://www.pinkbike.com/u/mattwragg/blog/opinion-19-november-2018.html
You can follow Matt on Instagram at @matt_wragg
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| 0:00.0 | What is up podcast family? It's Monday morning and what better way to start the week than by dropping in with a fresh secret sessions episode. |
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| 1:06.0 | everything on our website what's fairer than that, before we also get going with this episode, |
| 1:12.8 | I want to tell you that our marathon is just under a month away. |
| 1:17.6 | If you're not already aware, at the end of April, |
| 1:20.8 | my friends and I were on a canoe trip, |
| 1:22.4 | which took a turn for the worst. |
| 1:24.1 | In short, the R&LI, the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, saved my life. They dragged me out |
| 1:30.9 | of Loch Ness with a helicopter after spending about 50 minutes in 5 degree water. I had hypothermia |
| 1:37.3 | and without the R&LI, there is no way on earth I was going to get out of that water. So my friends and I, we decided to run a marathon |
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