Ep. 697: Adventure Racing Legends - Travis and Mark Macy
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Adventure Racing: Follow the inspiring story of a father and son who competed together in the legendary Eco-Challenge despite one battling Alzheimer's disease.
When Mark Macy was reluctantly pulled in to race the very first Eco-Challenge back in 1995 by a friend, he had no idea what was about to happen and how it would shape his life forever.
That first haphazard attempt at adventure racing began a lifelong pursuit of mastering multi-day adventures, competing in every Eco-Challenge that followed, and accumulating wins and awards from races in every corner of the globe.
Having watched his father compete in these epic events, it was no surprise that Travis not only followed but excelled in his father’s footsteps. Since those early days, Travis has made quite the name for himself in the adventure/ultra racing community and even authored The Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion's 8 Core Principles for Success in Business, Sports, and Life.
Unfortunately, Mark was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years back, but that hasn’t stopped the two from doing amazing things together. In fact, the father/son duo was able to compete in the 2019 resurgence of the Eco-Challenge, which a documentary was made in 2020. You can watch World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji on Amazon where Travis and Mark are prominently featured.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, Jung says in a nutshell, the first half of life is often defined by the ego achievement |
| 0:09.2 | and kind of establishing oneself in relation to others. |
| 0:14.0 | And the second half of life, many people can experience a shift where it's kind of more about impact. |
| 0:20.2 | Yeah. many people can experience a shift where it's kind of more about impact. |
| 0:39.8 | Before we get into the episode, I wanted to tell you a quick story. |
| 0:45.3 | A few weeks ago, we painted our house, and my wife left it up to me to choose the colors. |
| 0:48.8 | And I was like, you know, no problem, this is going to be easy. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm just going to walk into Home Depot and choose the color. |
| 0:56.1 | And, you know, if you've ever seen that wall that they have all the color swatches, it's like a million different colors. It's pretty overwhelming. As soon as I |
| 1:02.1 | saw it, I was like, okay, I made a mistake. I needed to have a plan going into this. Sometimes it can be |
| 1:10.2 | like that talking to these adventures that have done so much. |
| 1:15.6 | You know, when you talk to someone like Travis and Mark, their life is so filled and so revolves around adventure. |
| 1:22.6 | It can honestly be hard to choose a place to start. |
| 1:26.6 | So especially, you know, having the both on the show together, that essentially does It can honestly be hard to choose a place to start. |
| 1:32.3 | So especially, you know, having them both on the show together, that essentially doubles the number of experiences that we could talk about. |
| 1:34.7 | But we decided to focus on a few, one being the book that Travis wrote called the Ultra |
| 1:40.5 | Mindset and Endurance Champions eight core principles for success in business sports |
| 1:45.9 | and life. That's a book that he wrote, of course. You can find it anywhere, but I encourage |
| 1:50.1 | you to get it at Travis Macy.com. And then also their recent Eco Challenge, which is a multi-day, |
| 1:57.2 | like week and a half long adventure race that involves a number of different sports |
| 2:01.6 | all in Fiji, and it was actually made into a documentary that's on Amazon called the World's |
| 2:07.6 | T toughest Race Eco Challenge Fiji. And it was also hosted by Barry Grills, so that's pretty cool. |
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