Ep. 671: Professional Endurance Athlete - Ryan Kempson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hiking, Cycling, Obstacle Course Racing: Ryan on Vermont Roots to Pro OCR – Basketball Agility to OCR Career, Near-Ending Injuries, FKT Climbing All 5 Vermont 4000-Footers Connected by Bike.
Growing up in the woods of Vermont, Ryan felt very comfortable with a lack of “rules” as he and his brother, Matthew, explored the forests, played in the mud, and generally lived free-range.
Ryan’s athletic pursuits eventually led him to the basketball court where he would spend his high school and college years excelling in the sport at a high level. The combination of being comfortable outdoors and the agility that basketball demands led Ryan to excel in the up and coming sport of obstacle course racing and even growing into being a professional in the sport.
Like many professional athletes, Ryan has faced near career-ending injuries, adjustments in focus, and changes in passions. He has since returned his focus to the outdoors and recently accomplished the fastest-known-time of climbing all five of Vermont's 4,000 ft peaks and connecting them by bike!
No matter what sport Ryan decides to focus on, it’s clear that he lives a life Without Compromise and continues to share what he knows with his students and mentees.
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Without Compromise video series on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Being from the South, I know a thing or two about how bugs can ruin a great outdoor experience. |
| 0:06.0 | It's crazy how something so small can affect some of the potentially greatest experiences of your life. |
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| 0:49.7 | high dollar gear that you've bought to be out there. And it does a fantastic job of protecting you and |
| 0:54.9 | your family from those vector-borne illnesses that are carried by insects. I know for me, I'm always |
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| 1:14.8 | Play safe, travel safely. |
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| 1:20.2 | Like how miserable it is, and I think that's when, yes, like how to learn to push through this. |
| 1:25.1 | Like where I grew up and where I train it just kind of embodies |
| 1:28.7 | that you can say miserable but to a point when you get used to that that's the norm and so when |
| 1:33.2 | you're confronted with these hard things you know it's just it ends up being the norm that's |
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