Ep. 719: Expand Your Possible - Steve Cannon

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Steve’s story is one that’ll get you pumped to start planning your next adventure and eliminate all excuses as to why you can’t or shouldn’t. Steve Cannon runs, fat bikes, kayaks, and skis but he wouldn’t call himself a runner, biker, kayaker, or skier, however. He would most likely refer to himself as an adventurer.

Here’s why:

Steve has run nearly 100 marathons.
Competed in the world’s longest kayak race.
Completed the Tuscobia Winter 150 twice on his fat bike.
Finished the Arrowhead 135 three times, and most recently did so unsupported.
In 2004, he rode his bike to the starting line of the Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon in South Dakota—beginning in Iowa—before running the marathon and continuing on another 1900 miles and 38 days.
Completed over twenty RAGBRAIs.
Completed eight Gravel World Championships in Nebraska.
Completed four Ride-the-Rockies,
Completed the Dirty Kanza 200 five times, earning a coveted “1000 Miles of Kanza” goblet in 2017 while also "beating the sun".
He was the second person to run the 292 miles across his home state of Iowa in 11 days (averaging a marathon distance each day) and is the first person ever to run around the great Lake Michigan, logging 1,037 miles in forty days - This pursuit also became his first book "40 Days", which you can download for free here.
CompletedJay Petervary's 200-Mile Fat Pursuit in West Yellowstone, Idaho. You can relive the journey and incredible fight to the finish (along with the rest of Steve's adventures this year) here.
In 2018 Steve completed the Iditarod Trail 350-mile bike race.
In 2019 he became the very first Iowan to complete the 1000-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational bike race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. This historic race was documented in the movie '1000 Miles to Nome' which is available at ExpandYourPossible.com.
His adventures have raised nearly $700,000 for Livestrong, Camp Kesem, Above and Beyond Cancer, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society,

If there was ever a person to come on the show to expand what’s possible for you, it’s Steve. Learn what you can and feel free to reach out to him to learn even more.

Find out more about Steve at ExpandYourPossible.com and on Instagram at @xpandurpossible

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0:00.0	But I was sitting there looking across towards Chicago and I'm like, my God, this lake just dwarfs Chicago.
0:09.0	Chicago's no small town.
0:10.7	And then the adventure picked me.
0:11.9	The adventure was like, well, maybe you should try and run around it. You know, we don't talk a lot about gear on this show.
0:33.8	There's a reason for that.
0:35.3	You know, gear can often get in the way of the adventure for a lot of folks, you know,
0:39.2	and, you know, gear is so overly commercialized and the marketing around it's so aggressive sometimes.
0:45.0	Just in general, you know, sometimes it makes you feel like you have to have that specific
0:49.8	jacket or those shoes to even be able to get outside and do something.
0:53.9	That's clearly not true. And it's just something we're not passionate about on this show. A lot of shows are and that's great. But that doesn't exclude the fact that you actually do need gear to do adventures. If you're going to do a ski trip, well, guess what? You need skis. If you do a bike trip, well, of course, you're going to need a bike with two wheels.
1:14.8	And you got to buy those somewhere as well as the tires. And, you know, there is gear that's obviously involved in adventure. And that's fine to enjoy that side. And so something that I love,
1:20.0	especially to make gear more affordable, is getting used gear in a great place to get that. And we're
1:25.9	excited to be partnering with them is rerouted.
1:28.3	And what they're doing is basically getting, you know, a used gear sale online and making it super easy to sell buy and sell gear online.
1:37.9	So if you've got a jacket in your closet that you aren't using, I would say put it on there. Maybe there's somebody out there whose adventure
1:44.8	needs that specific jacket that can help make their adventure happen and eventually come on this
1:49.8	show and tell that story. Maybe you help make that happen and get a little money in your pocket
1:53.9	by selling it at rerouted.co. But also if you're in need of gear, I would definitely recommend
1:59.1	you checking it out. They've got just one-of-a-kind stuff. You know, I love yard sales personally, so if you're in need of gear, I would definitely recommend you checking it out. They've got just one of a kind stuff.
2:01.9	You know, I love yard sales personally.
2:03.6	So if you've got something to buy or sell in the used gear department, definitely check out rerouted.co.
2:09.9	And that leads pretty cleanly right into today's episode.
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