111 Days at Sea...Turning the Improbable to Possible | Jack Jarvis

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Jack Jarvis, a soldier from Hamble, Hampshire, spent 111 days at sea becoming the first solo rower to have rowed from mainland Europe to North America. Joe sits down to interview how the soldier rowed 4,500 nautical miles (8,334km) from Portugal to South Florida.

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0:00.0	Once you've decided that you want the best, first thing I'd say is wake up early, win the morning.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe DeSenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:14.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:19.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course,
0:22.0	we will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast
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1:00.0	Jodja Center here, CEO and founder of Spartan. I got a big one for you today. I got a member of the British military. This guy is a machine and I'm laughing because when I got briefed on Jack, you're going to meet Jack Jarvis, he, I was told
1:17.4	he entered the military at 60 years old and I thought, oh my God God there's hope for me yet and so when you came on the screen
1:26.2	I was like man he looks young for six oh it must be his assistant but you entered
1:31.0	at 16 years old at 16 years old. Yeah, 16 years old, straight from school.
1:36.0	And then after my initial time in the engineer is a little bit different to the US military.
1:42.0	It's not like a tab, it's a core that we join.
1:45.5	And then once I finished all that engineer training, you get a load of choices, whether you
1:51.2	want to go do the All Armsarms commando course, serve with
1:54.2	Royal Marines or all-arms-pe company, sell with a parachute regiment, or go to another non-specialist
2:01.4	using it. And I volunteered for the commandos partly due to choice but
2:05.9	also because my dad or my godfathers were in the commandos so if I ever wanted to sit around
2:11.1	the dinner table with them and have a beer with them I knew I had no choice but to go and do the all-armes-manocors.
2:17.3	So yeah, I did that when I was 18 and been loving it, cutting around and going all around the world ever since yeah
2:23.2	I'm still on entry now. So you just triggered something for me I've been talking a
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