E98 - Chrissie Wellington: Racing the imperfect race perfectly

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Chrissie Wellington OBE is a former British professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She held all three world and championship records relating to ironman triathlon races and remains the world record holder for Ironman distance (8hrs,18 mins). But her success doesn’t stop there, she also has an MA in Econ Development Studies, is the Global Lead for Health and Wellbeing for parkrun and is a Sunday Times Best Selling author.

As a child her dad told her to ‘seize every opportunity and make a mark on the world for all the right reasons.’ She’s certainly achieved that, and in this podcast, she reveals how you too can learn to trust yourself, believe in what you are capable of and be the best you can be.

Chrissie has released two children's wellbeing storybooks with friend and former athlete Susie Bush-Ramsey entitled You're so strong and You're so amazing, available to buy here.

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0:05.2	Manchester, Birmingham and London in 2022, including special guests and they are great names as well.
0:12.6	If you want to get your hands on the few remaining tickets, just go to the highperformancepodcast.com
0:18.8	and click on LiveTour. That's the highperformancepodcast.com and click on LiveTour.
0:24.5	Welcome to high performance, I give to you four free every single week. This podcast turns the
0:32.1	lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. So today allow the
0:37.9	greatest leaders, thinkers, sport stars, entertainers and entrepreneurs to be your teacher.
0:44.3	Today, this is on its way. The desire to have an answer to the question of how good can you be?
0:54.0	It's always driven me because I've never, ever wanted to look back and think, what if?
1:01.0	So I've always been prepared to try and to explore and to pivot in my life because maybe I've
1:09.2	been compelled by the fear of not knowing. For me, the fear of not knowing how good I can be
1:15.6	is worse than the fear of the unknown that you might leap into. I realized first hand,
1:25.2	the beauty of the world around me, but I also saw abject poverty and deprivation and it was that
1:32.7	that ignited something in me. This childhood passion for driving positive change ignited this
1:40.6	passion in me. The beauty of racing is precisely because it doesn't go according to plan.
1:48.1	It's because you have to hurt. It's because you have to suffer and I see that as part of racing.
1:53.6	That's what I loved about racing. The unexpected, the discomfort, the self-doubt. It's the
2:00.1	challenge of having to deal with that that I love. So I expected it and I embraced it.
2:04.9	Your definition of success has got to come from within and that sense that you have given
2:12.8	something everything. Life is the difficulty, isn't it? It's the frustration and the challenge
2:18.7	and they're in lies the beauty. This episode is not just about someone who's dedicated their
2:26.8	life to learning. It's someone who wants to pass that on as well. You're about to hear from a
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