Ep. 740: Ultra Distance Paddling - Revisited - Robyn Benincasa
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired February 22, 2016
Robyn Benincasa is a world champion Eco-Challenge Adventure racer, CNN Hero, New York Times Bestselling Author, founder of the 501c3 Project Athena Foundation (Survivors to Athletes!), and 3x Guinness World Record distance paddler. On top of that, she had a career as a San Diego firefighter.
She’s here to inspire us to redefine our personal limits through amazing teamwork and tenacity through stories of multiple hundred-mile paddling races and helping others to come from huge life challenges. Need a dose of kick it and go? Don't miss this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | It just makes you realize how strong you really are when you have to be. |
| 0:04.0 | And I think that a lot of people don't ever find their edge, |
| 0:12.0 | or they don't really know what they're capable of. Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | Hope you're doing all right. |
| 0:37.4 | Today is Throwback Thursday, and we are doing an episode from a handful of years ago with Robin Benin-Casa. |
| 0:45.6 | Robin is one of those people. |
| 0:47.0 | She's been on the show before a few times. |
| 0:49.8 | She's one of those people that really just kicks all the excuses out of the way for you. |
| 0:53.9 | You know, she's had some challenges herself. |
| 0:56.0 | She has an unbelievable career that Kurt is going to tell you about. |
| 0:59.8 | He was the host of this episode. |
| 1:01.9 | But she is certified badass. |
| 1:06.9 | There's really no other way to put it. |
| 1:08.6 | And she is motivating as heck and is just going to get your |
| 1:13.0 | butt in gear to get out there and make your adventure happen. You know, at the end of the day, |
| 1:18.8 | we all do what we really want to, you know, whether that's scrolling on your phone or watching |
| 1:23.3 | TV or eating a bunch of chips or, you know, using those few minutes you have in between when the |
| 1:30.3 | kids go to bed and you need to go to sleep, you know, using that to build something or to do a |
| 1:35.3 | workout or to really fit in time to get closer to your next adventure. |
| 1:39.8 | We all end up really doing what we want to. |
| 1:42.4 | And Rob is one of those people that help you stay motivated and get motivated and re-evaluate your life |
| 1:49.6 | to make adventures happen. |
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