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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

188: Ian Adamson | On Being Exceptional

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Will OCR be an Olympic sport? Ian Adamson wants to change lives and he approaches the Olympic initiative as an "incredible opportunity", not as the "insurmountable Everest" it could appear to be. As Adamson is also one of the most successful adventure racers of all time, the challenge is in capable hands. This week, we ask Adamson what it takes to be exceptional, why some are driven to be, how a team can exceed the ability of its weakest member and more. It's not in the genes. It's not in the stars. It's something within everyone's reach. Find out what this week.

Lessons:
1. A good team is FASTER than its weakest link.

2. Excelling at sport is about summoning the innate abilities that make you human, and not exceptional.

3. Mastering a sport is a kind of path to enlightenment: the journey starts out physical but evolves into emotional and, at its highest level, spiritual. 


LINKS:
About Ian Link: https://ianadamson.com/
About World OCR https://worldocr.org/


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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Matt Baatz

© 2018 Spartan

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Spartan up the podcast. We have Root Canal Joe on my left. We have

0:05.5

Suffer the Seed Hunters. We have Colonel the Tim of Nye and we have Johnny

0:10.0

the Doctor of Weight and Marion as always behind the camera this week we are with

0:14.3

Ian Adamson who is working to make Spartan an Olympic sport and Johnny what seven time

0:19.3

seven-time world champion incredible guy breadth of experience I believe he was the race

0:23.5

director for Joe's first adventure race he was the race director for the first race we

0:27.2

I love to see that yeah I'm sorry my lips he's like drilling we actually lost

0:31.4

someone in that race, year 2000, but we'll wait until we come back.

0:36.5

I hope they found them eventually.

0:38.1

I'll let you know if we found them.

0:39.7

Welcome back to Spartan Up Podcast. We are here at the Olympic Village in Squaw Valley, Lake

0:47.9

Tahoe, California. Incredible venue. The coolest part for me is I'm actually speaking to an Olympian and

0:53.8

somebody's been very involved with the Olympic movement, Ian Adamson.

0:56.1

Good morning. Nice to meet you all. Thank you and I'm not an Olympian.

0:59.2

I thought you were. Absolutely not. No. X Games. I have some X Games medals, called Silver Bronze, seven World Championships,

1:06.0

and three H-group World Championships, so after retirement I managed to jump back in and play.

1:11.7

So I'm very glad I made that mistake because that is cool to hear all that.

1:15.0

That's fantastic.

1:16.0

Yeah, really, really cool.

1:17.0

Now that said, I know that people who are familiar with you through the Spartan world

1:21.0

know that you actually have been involved in the the movement towards

1:25.2

Olympicizing obstacle racing. So I have Joe and I go back a long way to the 90s actually

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