Ep. 777: How to Finish an Ironman - Maddie Stambaugh
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ironman triathlon: Maddie's journey from marathoner to crossing the finish line as an Ironman – overcoming setbacks, mastering swim-bike-run challenges, battling crazy ocean waves on race day, and the biggest lessons in preparation, perseverance, and finishing without compromise.
This episode is original from Without Compromise.
Finishing an Ironman race is at the very top of many endurance athletes’ bucket lists. It’s a daunting goal to put all the training, logistical, and motivational pieces together to pull off such an extreme athletic achievement.
For Maddie, it was the ultimate athletic goal. Being a marathoner, she had a leg up on folks starting from scratch, but running is still only one-third of the skills you need for a triathlon, so the math was still against her.
Despite many setbacks and many times she could have logically bowed out of training and preparation, Maddie continued through every challenge, even up to race day (the ocean waves were crazy!), yet she successfully crossed that finish line and heard those fateful words, “You are an Ironman!”.
Listen in to hear the biggest lessons that Maddie learned in preparation and on race day, and what it takes to finish an Ironman without compromise.
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| 0:00.0 | You might say she's crazy from going zero to 100 really fast, but I also see that as look at what you can do to get to that day. |
| 0:10.1 | Like I don't think you need to take those steps of doing the smaller distances before you go do the big thing. |
| 0:15.9 | It's just knowing that you're capable of the big thing and that you're deserving of being on that start |
| 0:21.8 | line. |
| 0:44.6 | Hey folks, welcome to Adventure Sports Podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today we're doing something a little different. This is from my other show without compromise. And I didn't know if I was going to play |
| 0:50.3 | this here, but I thought, you know what? There's so many endurance athletes that |
| 0:54.1 | listen to this show that I think highlighting, you know, a huge bucket list challenge for a lot of us, |
| 1:00.0 | which is an Iron Man, highlighting that would be really cool. And so who this is, this is Maddie Stanbaugh. |
| 1:05.6 | She's one of the ambassadors over at Athletic Brewing, and we challenged a team of our ambassadors |
| 1:10.8 | to race in the Barcelona |
| 1:12.7 | Iron Man a few weeks ago, and Maddie is one of the folks that finished, and successfully finished, |
| 1:19.0 | that is, and we have another team racing this week in Oceanside, California, at the Half Iron Man |
| 1:24.7 | there, and this is all with Athletic Brewing, who I work for. And I'm going to, |
| 1:29.6 | I'm actually there right now. As this, as you hear this, I am in Oceanside attending that Iron Man. |
| 1:34.3 | So if you're around Oceanside, California, right outside of San Diego, come check it out. It'd be |
| 1:39.4 | great to have you around. Just look for like the giant 12 foot tall blue beer can that's where I'm going to be for for most |
| 1:45.7 | the week but anyway Maddie's story's awesome you know because she's a teacher full time she was |
| 1:51.1 | going to school throughout training she had so much going on with her personal life and um |
| 1:57.0 | had never done a triathlon before she decided to sign up for a full iron man um and so it's |
| 2:03.2 | kind of crazy and if you don't know a full iron man is what 2.6 mile swim a 112 miles on the |
| 2:09.2 | bike and then a marathon literally 26.2 miles all one after the other pretty crazy might be a 2.4 |
| 2:17.0 | mile swim uh i'm losing i don't have Google next to me. |
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