Ep. 1205: Winning Yourself Back with David Richman
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
True transformation through endurance athletics.
What do you do when you find yourself at your end? Sometimes we need to face the facts and begin to win ourselves back. Endurance athlete and author David Richman shares his transformative journey from a sedentary, unhealthy lifestyle to completing over 50 triathlons, including Ironmans, and biking 4,700 miles in six weeks. Discover how facing personal challenges, self-reflection, and endurance sports can unlock profound life changes and resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.0 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi friends, I have an amazing guest with us today. |
| 0:23.5 | I can already tell we just visited for about five minutes, and what a guy. |
| 0:27.5 | Holy cow, what a guy. |
| 0:29.2 | David Richmond is our guest, and he's an endurance athlete. |
| 0:34.0 | But more than that, he's also an author. |
| 0:36.9 | He is a financial advisor as well. But he is self-described as a |
| 0:41.3 | former sedentary overweight smoker who, let me read off some of his accomplishments here, |
| 0:48.2 | 50 triathlons, more than 50 triathlons, more than 15, Iron Man length, 50, more than 50, marathons, several ultras, and he biked |
| 1:00.5 | 4,700, probably plus miles in only six weeks, and that was to honor his sister who had died |
| 1:08.2 | of cancer. |
| 1:08.7 | As a result of that life experience and others, he |
| 1:12.1 | has written two books, cycle of lives, and winning in the middle of the pack. And we're |
| 1:18.6 | going to be talking about transformation today. It's one of my favorite subjects. This is |
| 1:24.1 | going to be one of those episodes where if you know someone who needs some encouragement, then you're going to want to share it with them because David's that kind of guy. So, and I don't even know what we're going to talk about yet. David, welcome to the program. Thanks, Kurt. I appreciate that. We'll talk about a lot of stuff. But, yeah, it's a real pleasure to be on your show, and I appreciate what you do, |
| 1:46.0 | and thanks for having me. Well, you have, man, checked an awful lot of boxes when it comes to |
| 1:53.2 | endurance athletics. And I want to get into the full story of what got you started. But I guess I'm |
| 2:00.6 | going to start with the hard question first. |
| 2:03.0 | Why? Why put yourself through all of this? These are not easy things to do. |
| 2:09.9 | Yeah, I didn't know going into it, Kurt, the why. I did not know. developed that through through doing more and and and going going on |
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