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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Withstand Pain

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sophie Power once breastfed her newborn during an ultramarathon, but an upcoming 268-mile race across a remote stretch of Great Britain is freaking her out. We turn to Wim Hof, aka "The Iceman," for advice. Because when you are worried about pain, you should definitely consult a Dutch extreme athlete who sits in freezing water for fun. (Really!)

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0:00.0

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0:21.1

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0:25.9

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0:30.6

Nobody likes to feel pain. That's why I began to go into cold water. Cold water is like merciless but righteous. It brings you right

0:40.6

there and you got to learn one way or another. And I thought, shit, this is it. And now I'm

0:47.3

able to train anybody. This is how to, a show where we help people figure out how to solve life's toughest problems.

0:56.6

I'm Charles Deweck.

0:58.5

And this is Sophie.

1:00.6

My name's Sophie Power, and I'm an ultra-runner and mother.

1:05.4

I've got two boys, age one and four.

1:08.0

Oh my gosh.

1:08.7

And you actually are a little famous as a mother and an

1:11.9

ultramarathonery, right? So a photo was taken in me on a 106 mile mountain race whilst I was

1:19.7

breastfeeding my three-month-old baby and expressing the other side. So, you know, motherhoods

1:25.1

can be pretty kick-ass. If you can't tell, Sophie herself, is pretty kickass.

1:30.1

That photo of her nursing her baby during an ultramarathon, it went viral.

1:34.1

And it made her into this kind of icon.

1:39.1

How did you come to running?

1:41.4

Like, were you always naturally an athlete?

1:44.2

No, I was second last in the mile at school.

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