How to Spend 16 Days on a Mountain // Spartan Endurance ep 001
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Spartan Endurance series here on the SpartanUp podcast. Our first guest is Patty Alcivar, who is a competitive racer, mountaineer and boxer. She's training to be the first women to climb 7 summits. In this episode we cover...
LESSONS
- Get out of your comfort zone to overcome personal hardships
- How to persist when you've spent 16 days on a mountain dealing with uncontrollable elements
- Having a clear purpose removes obstacles & distractions
- Sports psychology practices for the endurance athlete
TIME STAMPS
1:21 What attracted Patty to endurance
2:39 Training for the Breakneck Marathon
4:17 Boxing is all about endurance
6:00 Persistence when you're at your limit
10:22 Fighting the elements / spending 16 days on a mountain
18:07 Sports psychology practices for the endurance athlete
22:40 Seeing your goal before it happens
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Producer: Ryan Warner
Hosts: Johnny Waite
Sr Producer: Marion Abrams
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I spent my birthday, Christmas, and New Year's on the mountain of Al-Kunkawa. |
| 0:06.0 | And we waited for the perfect window and we, although it was insanely the most cold I've ever been in my life but it was 16 days I came back I was |
| 0:16.1 | 105 pounds. Hey Spartans I'm Johnny Wade one of the hosts the Spartan Up |
| 0:21.4 | podcast and as part of the Spartan endurance podcast, |
| 0:25.6 | where we're bringing you incredible endurance athletes |
| 0:27.4 | from all over the world and tapping into their experience |
| 0:30.2 | to bring you specific actionable items |
| 0:32.2 | that you can apply to your own endurance right away. |
| 0:34.0 | We're going to make you faster, longer, further stronger. |
| 0:37.0 | And on that note, we've got our great first guest, Patty Alsavar. |
| 0:41.0 | Patty lives in New York City City and she's a truly exceptional |
| 0:43.4 | endurance athlete. She's not just excelling in one, not just two, but three |
| 0:47.4 | completely different forms of endurance all over the world and she's going to |
| 0:50.6 | teach you how to excel at anything you want to do. |
| 0:54.1 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Gone Rogue high protein chips. |
| 0:58.2 | Visit Amazon or Gone Rogue Snacks.com and use the promo code Spartan 25% off. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to the Spartan endurance podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | Thanks for having me guys. |
| 1:09.0 | You're very welcome. |
| 1:10.0 | Patty, you are fascinating. |
| 1:12.0 | They're about to find this out. welcome. Patty, you are fascinating. |
| 1:12.5 | They're about to find this out. |
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