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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 995: World Champion Adventure Racer & NYT Bestseller - Revisited - Robyn Benincasa

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

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

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired September 7, 2015

Listen in as Robyn Benincasa, 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 inspires us to redefine our personal limits through amazing teamwork and tenacity. 

Learn more about Robyn:

www.worldclassteams.com

www.projectathena.org

www.facebook.com/Robyn.Benincasa.Page


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

0:24.8

I'm your host, Mason.

0:26.2

Today's episode is a throwback to 2015 going, holy cow, almost 10 years ago now.

0:33.4

Wow, we're going to be 10 years old next year as a show.

0:36.5

That is unbelievable.

0:38.1

Well, anyway,

0:45.7

uh, let's dive into this one. This one was with Kurt and like I said, going back to 2015 with Robin Bittin Casa, world champion adventure racer in New York Times bestseller. And

0:52.1

Adventure Racer caught me, uh, caught my attention because I was just

0:56.0

watching somebody attempt an FKT and Adventure Racer. And I was like, you know, we haven't done

1:02.8

an episode on Adventure Racing in a while. And I think it's something that's starting to get a lot

1:07.1

of people interested that might not, might might have been doing part of the,

1:12.6

the aspects of adventure racing.

1:14.6

I know adventure racing itself can have a lot of different elements to it.

1:18.6

They're all, you know, it's not like triathlon where there's three specific things you do.

1:21.6

There can be a lot of things you do in adventure racing.

1:23.6

So there's probably a race out there for you if you want to do it, but

1:28.2

Robin's going to tell us a little bit about what she does, how she's done it, and all about,

1:33.6

you know, becoming an eco-challenge, adventure racer, CNN, hero, New York Times bestselling

1:39.5

author, and also founding and running her Athena Foundation, a nonprofit,

1:46.5

as well as her three-time Guinness World Record Distance Paddling Adventures.

1:52.0

So she has done another episode with us that we might feature as well in near future.

1:56.1

But hope your year is going off well, 2024.

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