coming back again and again to have that experience of, you know,

racing with one heart and one mind with three other people that we're going to succeed at all costs.

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Get out there and have some fun.

Episode 84, Robin Vennon Casa, World Champion Adventure Racer.

Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville.

Today we have two-time world champion adventure racer Robin Benin Kasa.

Robin holds three world records for distance paddling. I'll let her explain that. She's an inspirational speaker, extraordinary, awesome. New York Times bestselling author.

How Winning Works is her book. She was in the Eco Challenge, winning both Borneo and Ecuador.

She's done 40 expedition-length adventure races. Robin has an organization called World Class Teams, and she's really excited about a new project called Project Athena Foundation. She's done nine Iron Man's, and she's a professional firefighter.

Wow, Robin, how do you fit it all in? It's a little crazy. There's way too many miles on my body, that's for sure.

But it's the best thing in life to have adventures and inspire other people.

And I will never stop doing it ever, ever, ever.

Well, that's awesome.

Will you take a few minutes to fill in any gaps I have there?

I mean, what got you started in adventure

racing, for example? I was doing Iron Man for the longest time. I graduated, college, moved out

to the West Coast, and of course, everybody was either running or riding everywhere, so I needed

a new sport, and I discovered triathlon, actually. And so my early endurance career was all the Iron Man races.

And then I read about adventure racing in Runner's World one day.

And I knew that the longer the race was, my trathlons,

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