Ep. 142: Ultra Distance Paddling & Project Athena with Robyn Benincasa
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Robyn inspires us again with more great stories about multi-hundred mile paddling races as well as helping others to come from huge life challenges to amazing success as overcomers through Project Athena. Need a dose of kick it and go? Don't miss this show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:26.6 | Episode 142, Robin Benin Casa, Adventure Racer, and Project Athena. |
| 0:33.3 | Thank you very much for all of you who have responded to our Adventure Sports Podcast College Campus Ambassador Program. |
| 0:55.5 | We thank you for that. |
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| 1:07.3 | We'd love to talk to you. |
| 1:21.5 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:25.8 | Today we have a returning guest, Robin benin casa and i'm really excited |
| 1:31.0 | to have her here today when we last spoke with robin was all the way back on episode 84 and you may |
| 1:37.8 | recall robin was an adventure racer for many years and on the the best adventure racing in the world. Just an amazing story. And |
| 1:46.2 | episode 84 talks a lot about that. Robin developed some severe arthritis in her hips and had some |
| 1:52.3 | hip replacements that forced her out of the adventure racing, but she wasn't ready to quit |
| 1:57.0 | adventuring. So she took up long distance paddling and set world records as a long-distance |
| 2:02.7 | paddler. But I also want to spend a lot of time today talking about Project Athena, which is a |
| 2:08.5 | wonderful organization that Robin has put together that encourages everyday people who are recovering |
| 2:13.7 | from challenging illnesses in their lives and things like that to come back out stronger |
| 2:19.5 | than they were before and accomplish amazing feats. And so Robin is an inspiration to us all. |
| 2:25.7 | She is a motivational speaker. And Robin, thank you very much for coming and being on the show again. |
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