Ep. 1176: Trying Every Sport in the World to Discover Your Next Passion Revisited - Hilary Spires
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Trail running: Trying different sports, finding new passions.
For some of us, we let fate and passion find us by chance. For others, we go out and find them ourselves. Hilary is among the latter.
After being in love with hockey since the age of three, Hilary was looking for another sport she could be passionate about. The idea to try every known sport, over 8,000, was her solution to discover her next obsession. About 50 sports into the challenge she ran her first trail race and she was hooked!
Today we’ll hear Hilary’s story about how a crazy idea led her to discovering her new life passion.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | This is Caleb. |
| 0:27.4 | In this revisited episode, Mason interviews Hillary Spires. |
| 0:33.2 | Hillary is a runner and a racer. |
| 0:36.1 | However, that's not really what this episode is about. |
| 0:40.3 | What makes this episode so special is that prior to taking up adventure sports, |
| 0:46.3 | Hillary was a D1 hockey player and hockey had been her thing since the age of three. |
| 0:53.3 | And if you don't know, hockey is an extremely time-intensive sport. |
| 0:58.1 | It really takes over your life. |
| 1:00.7 | And so when Hillary's time in hockey came to an end, she found that there is a void in her life. |
| 1:06.8 | And so she decided to do something which I haven't heard of a lot of people doing, but I think it's a great example of maybe your time on a project comes to an end or for whatever reason something you're really passionate about you can no longer do. Maybe it's time to go explore other things that you can become passionate about and |
| 1:30.3 | grow to love. And that's exactly what Hillary did. She had the crazy idea of trying every |
| 1:38.3 | known sport, and there are over 8,000 of them to discover her next obsession after hockey. |
| 1:45.2 | And about 50 sports in, she ran her first trail race, and the rest is history. |
| 1:50.7 | I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 1:52.5 | Here's Mason. |
| 1:54.3 | All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:57.8 | Today we're going to hear what I think are going to be some cool stories about |
| 2:02.6 | about fkTs and ultras and just living an adventurous life in general and we have |
| 2:08.6 | Hilary Spires. Hilary, welcome to the show. Thanks. Stoke to be here. Yeah. So I always ask this, |
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