If You’re Going Fast, You’re Doing It Wrong, With Ellen Bradley

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We all do it, zip as fast as we can around our favorite trails and rides. Maybe it’s because we feel a pull to get to the next thing, want to rush through the hard part to get to the fun part, or only have a brief window in our overbooked day. Whatever the reason, moving fast often results in missing out on the moment. But what would our time outside feel like if we adopted a slow, measured movement? Skier and scientist Ellen Bradly loves answering this question. Inspired by research in the Hoh Rain Forest on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, Ellen adopted a mentality for her adventures that prioritizes a deep attention to the details of her surroundings. And what started as a way to appreciate the beauty around her evolved into an ability to learn and hear things that her Indigenous ancestors were trying to teach her. Sometimes, the best way home isn’t necessarily the fastest one.

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0:00.0	This is the Outside Podcast with Patio.
0:12.0	I'm Schenket, and my think it name is Kalking Chi.
0:17.2	Flinket is a tribe of southeast Alaska.
0:19.9	I guess I'm a professional skier, but I'm super not professional.
0:23.4	What do you mean by that?
0:24.4	I don't throw tricks.
0:25.6	But also just like as a person, I would say I'm not a very professional person.
0:29.9	But I do get paid to ski, so this is my job.
0:33.5	I'm also a scientist.
0:34.9	Right now I'm not being paid to be a scientist, so I'm not a professional scientist right now.
0:39.2	I will Venmo you, $1.
0:41.5	And I'll just say, for science.
0:45.0	That's on pause because I had quit my last job with the intentions of going back to it very quickly after I finished my film.
0:51.6	That was two years ago, and my film only just finished. So,
0:55.6	we'll see what comes next.
0:59.8	I am slow. At a molecular level, I am incapable of moving my body fast. I don't think anyone has ever looked at the six foot five,
1:13.5	250 pounds of my man flesh and thought,
1:16.7	wow, I bet he moves like a ballerino.
1:19.8	Mostly, I think folks wonder how many pieces of furniture I bump into
1:23.1	while I'm trying to leave the house.
1:24.9	And when I get outside, especially when I'm lumbering uphill,
1:28.5	my trudging movements are even more labored. My chest feels like I've swallowed a campfire,
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