Well, howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy, Ben Greenfield here. Welcome to a

reinvigoration of the weekly audios that I tend to release on Sunday as a part of my Sabbath rambling series.

For the next several weeks, I will be releasing to you interviews based on the whole concept of

spiritual endurance and spiritual stamina. I hope this will be useful for you. It's part of a book project that I'm working on,

but I thought that I'd share some of my my ramblings with you also via this

this particular podcast feed that'll come out on Sunday sponsor and

commercial free. I like that and if you if you dig this there's pretty much no

show notes. There's nowhere where you can go to leave me feedback but do leave

the podcast or ranking or review if you find this type of information helpful.

So that all being said let's jump in shall we? Indoor introduction. There is a

time in my life when rightly so you'd likely have labeled me as a mildly

masochistic. If someone insane seriously hardcore endurance athlete you know

one of those guys who's likely to be wearing a swimming speedo or cycling

shorts under my jeans and running shoes tucked away under the seat of my car

just in case the opportunity arose to swim by run or engage in any other

form of forward repetitive chronic motion at random points throughout the day.

In the past several years I've certainly backed off quite a bit from buffeting

my body so to speak with bouts of extreme sufferance but for nearly two decades

I spent a lot of my existence traveling the globe and challenging myself with

some of those difficult and grueling events on the face of the planet from the

famed 72 hour a goji race previously called the the Spartan death race at 38

degrees below zero in the backwards of Vermont's to over a dozen of the hardest

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