Ep. 538: Balancing Normal Life as a Career Adventurer - Alastair Humphreys
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Alastair Humphreys is an adventurer, author, and motivational speaker. His first big adventure was completing a four-year bicycle journey around the world that consisted of 46,000 miles cycling and changed his life forever. After the trip, he popularized the idea of microadventures - short, local, accessible adventures for the average person. This idea helped him achieve becoming a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012.
Alastair is a huge inspiration of mine and I hope you enjoy our conversation about life, parenting, and the delicate balance between normal life and pursuing adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | If you have summer goals and don't want to sacrifice great-tasting beer, but do want to go without |
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| 0:18.9 | you'll want to have good coffee in the back country |
| 0:21.5 | or in places that it's hard to make a fresh cup. Give their single serve 100% Arabica coffee |
| 0:27.3 | packets a try. Discounts for both of those in the show notes. I find it really interesting how |
| 0:34.2 | standing up and playing a musical instrument in a little village in Spain, |
| 0:39.0 | to many people, sounds as scary as getting on a bike and cycling across a continent, if not more |
| 0:44.1 | so. And it really gets into the heart of the stuff that so often stops us doing the adventures |
| 0:49.5 | we want to do. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners |
| 0:59.9 | from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 1:02.4 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your |
| 1:06.5 | couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation |
| 1:10.8 | and inspiration you need to chase that next adventure. The adventure is going to go. couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation and |
| 1:11.0 | inspiration you need to chase that next adventure. The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you |
| 1:16.7 | by Camp Crate, the leaders in fully planned self-guided backpacking adventures, as well as backpacking |
| 1:23.4 | gear rental. You can check them out at camp crate.net. |
| 1:27.8 | I am very excited about today's episode because Alistair Humphreys is one of my biggest inspirations, and I'm going to |
| 1:45.9 | mention that in the show. |
| 1:47.6 | One of the biggest reasons I did my first bike trip. |
| 1:50.4 | He's an adventure. |
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