Commit to Your Next Endurance Adventure with Charlie Engle / ENDURANCE
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
"That feeling of uncertainty - the feeling of not knowing if you're capable to finish the race - is a gift," says Charlie Engle, when speaking about his criteria for an adventure. At this point in Charlie's career, he's actively seeking adventures where completion is in doubt from the very start of the race.
Spartan Up Endurance Series host Johnny Waite talks with Charlie about the criteria he uses to choose his next adventure. In this episode you'll learn:
-There's no reason for age to be a limitation
-Charlie's mission in life
-The 5.8 adventure series and why it's exciting for Charlie
-How to pick your next endurance adventure
-Never make a big decision at your lowest or highest
-How does Charlie break-down a big adventure?
Connect with Charlie on social media:
-Instagram: @charlieengle
-Twitter: @CHARLIEENGLE
-Facebook: @CharlieEngleRuns
-Website: CharlieEngle.Com
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CREDITS:
Producer: Ryan Warner
Hosts: Johnny Waite
Sr Producer: Marion Abrams
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| 0:00.0 | Any project that I take on now, I want it to be, number one, I want it to be uncertain. |
| 0:05.8 | And I mean, I really mean that. I don't want to take on something. I did, you know, I did literally a couple |
| 0:11.0 | hundred marathons early in my running career and I still love to run a marathon, but I don't step to the start line of a marathon and wonder if I'm going to finish. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Spartan endurance series on Spartan Up Podcast with host Johnny Waite. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey Spartans, I don't know where you are in your endurance journey, but Charlie Engel is going to have |
| 0:29.9 | some great lessons for you on what's next. |
| 0:32.7 | How do you determine what's next? |
| 0:34.0 | How do you take on an adventure worthy of you? |
| 0:36.0 | And how do you make sure you squeeze the most out of it? |
| 0:38.6 | Charlie's taking on some of the biggest challenges in the world |
| 0:40.7 | so he can help every one of us figure out what are we doing next and why. |
| 0:44.0 | Today's episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Better Help. |
| 0:48.0 | Spartan Up listeners can save 10% on their first month by going to BetterHelp. |
| 0:52.0 | com slash Spartan. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey Spartans, we're back and as promised I'm back with Charlie Engel. |
| 0:58.0 | I interviewed Charlie recently about his path to becoming an endurance athlete and how sobriety played a huge part in that. |
| 1:04.3 | Definitely go back and watch that episode. |
| 1:07.1 | Charlie really made it very, very simple for how you can get your life on track and how you can |
| 1:12.4 | help others in the process. |
| 1:13.6 | So I'm not going to dive into that because he said it perfectly before. |
| 1:16.4 | What are you going to dive into instead is Charlie, I want you to tell everyone about |
| 1:19.8 | what is next. So anyone who doesn't know Charlie Engel, he's run across as a |
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