E50 - Neil Fachie: How to avoid getting stuck; the power of pivoting
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Neil Fachie is a long-standing member of the Great Britain Cycling Team. Neil is a 2012 Paralympic champion and reigning world champion and tandem kilo world record holder.
A track and field athlete at his debut Paralympics, Neil made the switch to track cycling in time for the London Games four years later winning gold and silver in the tandem B events, for athletes with a visual impairment.
It is an area in which the Scotsman has proved dominant, winning 14 gold medals at UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships between 2009 and 2020 in the tandem B kilo and sprint disciplines. Neil also added another Paralympic medal to his collection in 2016, winning silver in Rio. Neil's book 'Earn Your Stripes – Gold Medal Insights for Business and Life' is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to another episode of the High Performance Podcast, but we're |
| 0:08.1 | going to start by not talking about the podcast because we have some really big news. |
| 0:13.3 | Damien and I are so excited to make this announcement. Damien, do you want to do it, |
| 0:17.2 | or shall I? No, you do it, Jake. No, you do it. We've got a book coming out. |
| 0:22.2 | Woo, I want Damien, man, when you don't know. When I say to you and do it, you've got |
| 0:26.5 | to literally go, we've got a book coming out. We've got a book coming out. We're going |
| 0:31.7 | to book coming out. We're incredibly proud that we've been writing a book over the last |
| 0:36.2 | 12 months, aren't we, Jake? And it's due to come out towards the end of this year. We |
| 0:41.2 | both are incredibly excited to share it with you. So excited. So excited. It's called, |
| 0:47.2 | Would You Believe It? High Performance. It's been published by Penguin Random House. |
| 0:52.3 | You'll be out on the 9th of December. Now, obviously that is really big news because |
| 0:56.8 | it's not just Damien and I taking the things we've talked about in the podcast. We're also |
| 1:00.9 | applying some science. We're discussing it in a way you've not sort of heard us talk |
| 1:04.6 | about it before. Lots of personal experiences as well. And we're trying to sort of bring |
| 1:08.8 | all the things across all the episodes that people have reacted to on the high performance |
| 1:13.1 | podcast into one place, which will be the book. That's big news. But also, you can pre-order |
| 1:19.2 | it right now. The link is in the podcast description. It's also all over our social media. So you |
| 1:26.0 | can go to at LiquidThinker, which is where Damien is on Instagram. I'm at Jake Humphrey |
| 1:31.5 | on Instagram. Mr. Jake Humphrey on Twitter. You can follow high performance on Instagram. |
| 1:36.8 | All of those places, there'll be information right this very moment about how you can pre-order |
| 1:41.3 | the book right now from Amazon. We just want to take things even further. I know we don't |
| 1:46.1 | want to give away too much at this stage, Damien. But what would you like to tell people |
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