101: 4 Lessons from one of the oldest Olympic sports

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

US Pentathletes Nathan Schrimsher and Dennis Bowsher.
The pentathlon has been an Olympic sport for over a century, but chances are most people don’t know much about it. What are the skills a messenger would have needed in wartime? Riding, swimming,running fencing and shooting. It has recently been given a modern upgrade: the guns shoot lasers instead of the original bullets. Joe talks to two of the best American pentathletes to discover what it takes to excel at this intriguing discipline - one on the current Team competing in Rio in a few weeks. Trust us, there are 4 or 5 key lessons that will carry over to whatever challenge you face on the way to your goals.

Lessons:

1. Run your own race, the race of life.
2. There is no substitute for the internal motivation to practice EVERY day.
3. Don’t underestimate the value of wisdom and patience.
4. Set aside your wins and your losses, focus only on what is in front of you now.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Spartan up the podcast. I am Separate. I have Dave Johnny Joe and
0:04.4	marrying behind the camera. Today we are talking to two pentathletes and if
0:09.4	you're as interested to know what that is as I am let's listen to this next interview it's actually
0:13.8	pretty awesome you guys yeah you guys gonna like this yep
0:20.0	we are here for Spartan up the podcast in Colorado with Nathan Scrimpshire.
0:26.0	Hi everybody.
0:27.0	So you don't know much about the podcast, but the idea is we want to get to the roots attributes that get people from wherever they are in life
0:36.3	to become successful. It could be a monk, could be a mom, could be a business person. You are an Olympic
0:41.2	athlete. You're an athlete for the U.S. Olympic team for Pentathlon.
0:45.0	Yes, that's correct.
0:45.6	Pentathlon, so you're a Pentathlete.
0:47.0	Pentathlete, the Modern Pentathlon.
0:49.0	For those I don't know, the Modern Pentathlon is running, swimming, shooting, fencing,
0:52.0	and equestering all thrown into one sport in one day
0:54.9	and created for the Modern Olympic Games.
0:56.8	I've been doing that for Team USA for the past five years now.
1:00.7	How old are you?
1:01.7	I'm 23. 23. And how does somebody, it's a small
1:05.0	sport, it's not that big of a sport, 150 countries or so? Yeah, there's, we have a
1:09.9	big group of countries that participate in the pentathlon and stuff but here in the United States
1:14.4	it's a sport that you know it's not very well known and stuff it's definitely growing but it's a small
1:18.9	you know tight-knit community of athletes from all over the world and stuff. How well have you done?
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