On the day after Christmas, an American endurance athlete, Colin O'Brady completed a 54-day solo trek across more than 930 miles of the vastness of Antarctica.

I realize as I'm flying down there

that there's actually another very prolific British explorer

attempting the exact same goal at the exact same time as me.

24 hours of daylight, no wildlife, no trees,

no even bacteria living out there.

It's just an endless white desert.

For me to survive out there, I would have run out of food if I stopped so I couldn't take any days off.

I need to keep plugging forward one step at a time, remembering that whatever moment we are in our life,

it's ultimately temporary.

I had no money when I was a kid growing up,

but always was like, you know,

someday I want to see the world and have some

adventures. Ultimately ended up in Thailand being a foolish 22 year old kid and I

decided to jump a flaming jump rope. The rope wrapped around my

legs splattered kerosene the length of my body I tripped on it and ultimately

let my body completely on fire to my neck. You've been an athlete your entire life

that's how you identify yourself you're never gonna walk again normally.

The heroin of the stories my mother came to my bedside and she said

calling your life is not over. What would have happened had my mom not forced my

mindset to ship towards overcoming this massive obstacle in my life?

And so for the overcoming this massive obstacle in my life.

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