Ep. 779: How to Beat Monday - Mike Chambers
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Weekend adventures: Mike Chambers and Jason Antin's Beat Monday mindset – leaving the office Friday at 5pm for epic summits like Mt. Rainier, bikerafting, big wall climbing, ultrarunning, and international trips, then back to work Monday 9am, as featured in their OutsideTV series and shared lessons on making massive adventures fit into real-life weekends.
Summiting mountains in South America, bikepacking in the desert and climbing classic big wall routes sound like epic adventures that you’d have to save lots of vacation days for, right? The travel alone would take up at least a day or two, especially for any international trips. Not to mention making arrangements for other responsibilities like kids, pets, work, etc.
Mike Chambers and his adventure partner, Jason Antin, think otherwise. In fact, they think you can leave the office on Friday at 5pm, have an adventure of a lifetime and be back at work at 9am on Monday. Is it easy? Of course not. Is it worth it? C’mon now.
It all started when Mike was living in Boston and Jason was based in Colorado and the two came up with the bright idea of summiting Mt. Rainier in a true weekend. To the astonishment of the park rangers that hesitantly granted them the permit, their plan worked. Although the morning meetings that Monday were not as productive as they usually were, they both walked away with a pretty epic response to the age-old question, “what did you do this weekend?”
Once the concept of Beat Monday was proven, Jason and Mike began dreaming of what else could be possible with this format. Bikerafting, big wall climbing, ultrarunning, and international travel began to fill their weekends and was even made into an OutsideTV series, Beat Monday.
Mike is joining us today to tell us about what he’s learned through the Beat Monday mindset and what’s possible for you to beat whatever your Monday is.
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| 0:00.0 | I have been wanting a paddle board for years and I finally got one from Blue Fin's Up. |
| 0:05.3 | And let me tell you, I absolutely love it because I can stand on it and look down in the water and see the fish, see sharks and stingrays and turtles. |
| 0:14.5 | It's absolutely amazing. I've taken it out dozens of times since I gotten it. |
| 0:19.0 | What I love about Bluefin is they offered a huge selection. |
| 0:22.4 | I went with the Bluefin Cruce 12, but they've got bigger boards, smaller boards for juniors all the way |
| 0:27.4 | up to season ocean tours. And what's cool, it's a family run business based in the UK, but they |
| 0:33.5 | ship nationwide. When I placed the order, it was here within a matter of days, |
| 0:37.5 | like four or five days it was at my front door. |
| 0:40.4 | It all packs down into a backpack. |
| 0:42.2 | I can store it inside my vehicle, inflate it in five or six minutes. |
| 0:47.2 | Doesn't take that much time. |
| 0:48.7 | And one of the coolest things about it is, |
| 0:51.1 | it's almost completely replaced my kayak |
| 0:53.7 | because a kayak seat is attachable to it. |
| 0:57.0 | So when I need to take a break, I want to sit down on the board, I have a seat ready to go. |
| 1:01.2 | It's amazing. |
| 1:02.5 | So if you're looking for a paddle board, I can't recommend Bluefin enough. |
| 1:06.4 | By the way, they are having a black Friday sale for $150 off at bluefin supboards.com. |
| 1:13.8 | That's bluefinsupboards.com. |
| 1:17.7 | And there is a link in the show notes to check it out. |
| 1:20.1 | So thank you for the folks over at Bluefin for sponsoring this episode. |
| 1:40.2 | And I just have just kind of come to the realization that like if I'm ever going to get to experience all these things, I need to create a framework, you know, in terms of how the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
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