Ep. 1027: How to Beat Monday - Revisited - Mike Chambers
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired November 8th, 2021
Summiting mountains in South America, bikepacking in the desert and climbing classic big wall routes sound like epic adventures that you’d have to save lots of vacation days for, right? The travel alone would take up at least a day or two, especially for any international trips. Not to mention making arrangements for other responsibilities like kids, pets, work, etc.
Mike Chambers and his adventure partner, Jason Antin, think otherwise. In fact, they think you can leave the office on Friday at 5pm, have an adventure of a lifetime and be back at work at 9am on Monday. Is it easy? Of course not. Is it worth it? C’mon now.
It all started when Mike was living in Boston and Jason was based in Colorado and the two came up with the bright idea of summiting Mt. Rainier in a true weekend. To the astonishment of the park rangers that hesitantly granted them the permit, their plan worked. Although the morning meetings that Monday were not as productive as they usually were, they both walked away with a pretty epic response to the age-old question, “what did you do this weekend?”
Once the concept of Beat Monday was proven, Jason and Mike began dreaming of what else could be possible with this format. Bikerafting, big wall climbing, ultrarunning, and international travel began to fill their weekends and was even made into an OutsideTV series, Beat Monday.
Mike is joining us today to tell us about what he’s learned through the Beat Monday mindset and what’s possible for you to beat whatever your Monday is.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Happy early weekend. It's Friday. |
| 0:14.0 | What's cool is today's episode is kind of all about the weekend, making most of the weekend. |
| 0:18.4 | You may have heard, this is a revisited episode, by the way, |
| 0:21.2 | with Mike Chambers and Jason Anten have, |
| 0:24.8 | are a duo that have done three seasons of this show called Beat Monday on Outside TV. |
| 0:31.2 | And there are rumors that there's going to be a fourth season coming up. |
| 0:35.1 | And the whole point of the show is how much can physically, |
| 0:39.9 | humanly possibly be fit in in a single weekend where you're not taking off work. It's like |
| 0:45.9 | Friday after work until Monday before work. Like what can actually be done? What are the limits? |
| 0:53.5 | And what's cool is they can I mean you can fit a lot |
| 0:57.9 | in a weekend I think a lot of you might know that but a lot of the adventures we see on the show especially |
| 1:02.8 | like Mondays with Madison Blagden for instance 10 months of her life almost a year of her life was |
| 1:07.9 | spent through hiking the eastern continental trail and yeah that's |
| 1:12.9 | incredible but very few people are able to do that however you can do some pretty epic stuff in the |
| 1:22.1 | weekend time frame mike and jason of beat monday which you can go check out all the other seasons of this show and see what they've done. They do international trips in a weekend. Now, you might not have those kinds of resources or aspirations, but you can do some very, very incredible things in a very short amount of time without disrupting your life, |
| 1:44.8 | without costing a fortune, and getting the same piece of the adventure pie that they do on big |
| 1:53.2 | adventures. You know, I think of adventure is a pie and the longer the adventure, just the more |
| 2:00.2 | of the pie I get to have or more pieces of the same thing. |
| 2:03.8 | However, if I'm only doing it for a day or two days, I still get to have a slice of that same pie, |
| 2:10.2 | same taste, same flavor, same crust, same everything. |
| 2:13.5 | But I only get, you know, what I need for the day. |
| 2:16.9 | A longer adventure, you're just getting more |
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