Hello and welcome back to the Not So Fick Couple Podcast with your host, Lucy Davis. I'm Benjamin

Helden. So we have another guest of us on this week's episode, The Not So Fickle Podcast. I usually

refer to him as Fergus the Freak, which I'm sure you will. I didn't know that to me.

It's behind your back, what you think? And it'll be for good reason of, I will explain a little bit

more about that

because he's an absolute psychopath when it comes to endurance events and some of the, the accolades

that he's built up over the last couple of years, which I'm going to let Fergus explain

a little bit more about it as we go through the podcast. But if you don't mind, Fergus, in a nutshell,

sell yourself to the people, the listeners. Okay. And then I'll dive in and scratch the surface a little bit more.

Okay, okay.

I'll be as concise as I can.

So Fergus Crawley, I'd probably class myself as a hybrid athlete,

which is a bit of a vague term.

But it basically means I balance strength and endurance concurrently,

as well as focusing on just extracting the lessons from my own personal

mental health story and placing that within the context of my training, my existence, what I do now,

et cetera, et cetera. Alongside that, I've got an online coaching business, a public speaking business,

and I train probably about 14 to 20 hours a week across strength and endurance training and go from

anything from 100 mile races to power lifting meets to iron distance extreme triathlons and

kind of everything in between but I'll explain more where I do that because that sounds pretty

stupid at this point that's it's obviously a really hard thing to balance and something that me and

Lucy been speaking about a lot over the last couple of weeks of the podcast is balancing that

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