EP 663: Endurance Lessons from Rowing Across the Atlantic
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We return to our 'Endurance Of The Trail" Series in this episode with our friend Major Brian "Tosh" Chontosh, United States Marine Corps, Retired. He recounts his extraordinary journey of participating in The World's Roughest Row, rowing 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean with his team of former Navy SEALs despite their lack of prior experience in ocean rowing. He delves into the rigorous training, preparation, and dietary strategies that underpinned their endurance feat. Tosh underscores the critical role of team cohesion and the strategic guidance from their campaign manager. He reflects on the mental resilience needed to surmount challenges and draws parallels between his rowing venture and ultra-running principles, particularly in nutrition and the necessity to eschew distractions for peak performance. The discussion also explores the mental rigors of the Atlantic crossing, the imperative of setting clear goals, and the congruence between one's actions and objectives. Tosh concludes by touching on the broader implications of his experiences for physical endurance and leadership.
**BEFORE YOU LISTEN, watch this 45-minute video documentary of their experience.**
- Check out his past episode about the shipping container challenge
- Check out his website Crooked Butterfly where you can learn more about the HardWay Project and his podcast by the same name.
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| 0:00.0 | Why not? |
| 0:02.7 | Like, just make the biggest and the boldest of plans and then put your heart behind trying |
| 0:08.7 | to accomplish it and achieve it and that's how spectacular things happen and that's |
| 0:12.1 | where magic starts happening. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome to the Trailhead of TrailRunner Nation where we go on virtual trail runs with |
| 0:28.4 | interesting guests that are going to help us become better runners, better endurance |
| 0:32.7 | athletes and maybe better human beings. |
| 0:36.0 | If it's your first time, we welcome you. |
| 0:37.9 | If it's your 650 some odd time, hey, welcome back. |
| 0:43.2 | And today we're extending our series on endurance off the trail. |
| 0:48.2 | And this is about as far off the trail you can get. |
| 0:50.9 | We're talking to Tosh about rowing across the Atlantic. |
| 0:54.2 | Hey, Don and before we get started with the episode I want to tell you what I |
| 0:58.2 | ran in this week, which was a new piece of John Gier that I got. |
| 1:03.0 | It's called the thermal runner reversible vest. |
| 1:06.9 | And I got to tell you it's it's it's based on I'm not even sure how to say this artist's |
| 1:12.2 | name. |
| 1:13.2 | Kieko Yanagzawa. |
| 1:14.8 | He's a Japanese illustrator and he made just the coolest print and some of the features |
| 1:19.8 | make it not only really good looking and fashionable but also functional. |
| 1:25.2 | It's really nice. |
| 1:26.6 | It's light. |
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