#45 - Turning To Triathlon When Life Turns On You
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ross Kaffenberger lives in Northern Virginia, enters the ever competitive 40-44 age group this year and is doing Ironman Wisconsin. But the "why" behind his next big race is the real story.
We all have challenges, but we don't know many people who have gone through anything like this. He opens up about how triathlon may have saved his sanity and kept him from falling into depression.
Ross is an incredibly mindful person and shares a ton of insight on how he's kept moving forward after his life was flipped upside down. He has some great posts on his blog, Out and Back, which you can find here. Follow Ross on Twitter @rossta
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, Robbie? |
| 0:08.5 | Michael, right on the dot, three o'clock. |
| 0:11.5 | Yeah, I've been sitting here for a long time. |
| 0:13.1 | I've got, I'm a little nervous because of the house so late on that last podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | You have PTSD, podcast traumatic stress disorder? |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | That's exactly what I have. |
| 0:26.2 | I've been sitting here staring at your icon waiting for you to come online. |
| 0:30.1 | It feels good to be, you know, this would be something you look so forward to on one or two podcasts out of the year. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah, and it is a beautiful day outside. |
| 0:41.5 | I'll tell you that. |
| 0:43.2 | All right. |
| 0:44.0 | So, I'm pumped about our guest today. |
| 0:46.2 | He emailed us a long time ago. |
| 0:47.8 | He's been listening to the cast. |
| 0:50.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:50.8 | I think he might have all of them under his belt, maybe. |
| 0:53.4 | But he sent us a cool email, |
| 0:55.0 | and he's got a story that really moved both of us. And so today we're welcoming Ross Kaffanberger. |
| 1:02.1 | Ross, are you on the phone? I'm here. How's it going, guys? Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:07.1 | Oh, man. You're welcome. Thanks for coming on. Where, you're over there in Northern Virginia, right? |
| 1:12.5 | That's right. Well, I'm a recent transplant from New York City. I've been, you know, in the city |
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