Failure in Success
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We’ve gotten a lot of new listeners in the past few months, so this week, we're playing a story that some of you may have missed. It ran back in 2015, when the show was still very new, and it won a national award last year.
The story is about a 70-mile mountain bike race called the Laramie Enduro. I've always liked big athletic challenges, but signing up for this race turned out to be a big mistake. This is the story of that mistake. It's a story about trying to prove yourself, about testing what you're capable of, and ultimately about learning when to say no.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories in the outdoors. |
| 0:14.6 | Before we get started, I wanted to let you know that we're releasing a bonus episode this Saturday in honor of Earth Day. |
| 0:21.6 | It's a story about a trip down the Bronx River in New York City. |
| 0:26.6 | On the surface, it's a story about the adventures of two men as they attempt to paddle parts of a river that nobody paddles. |
| 0:33.6 | But it's also more than that. |
| 0:35.6 | It's a beautiful, social and environmental portrait of the waterway, |
| 0:39.3 | a story that shows us just how much a river can show us about our society. |
| 0:44.3 | I hope you'll tune in for that. Again, that's coming up this Saturday. |
| 0:49.3 | Also, some great news. Last week, Out There won two awards from the Rocky Mountain |
| 0:55.1 | chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. We won second place for science reporting, |
| 1:01.3 | and third place for general broadcast excellence. The science story was the episode called |
| 1:06.7 | From the Horns of Beatles, which is about animal weapons, you know, horns and tusks and claws |
| 1:12.0 | and things like that. And it's about the surprising parallels that those weapons have to human |
| 1:17.1 | warfare. If you didn't catch it, go back to today's episode. |
| 1:36.1 | We've gotten a lot of new listeners in the past few months, which is wonderful. |
| 1:40.7 | And because of that, we'd like to play you a story that some of you may have missed. |
| 1:44.8 | It ran back in 2015 when the show was still very new, and it won a big national award last year. |
| 1:50.9 | So we thought you should hear it. |
| 1:55.8 | The story is about a mountain bike race near my home in Wyoming. |
| 2:00.0 | It's 70 miles long, all on trails and dirt |
| 2:03.3 | roads, with almost 9,000 feet of elevation gain, which on a scale of one to epic is pretty epic. |
| 2:11.8 | The race is called the Enduro, and in 2015, I made the mistake of signing up. |
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