Jack Thompson on resetting the boundaries of ultra cycling and recovering from addiction

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Known to his fans as Jack Ultra Cyclist, Jack Thompson has been smashing world records left and right for close to a decade. Growing up in Perth, Australia, he struggled with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder as a teenager and eventually entered rehab for a drug addiction. Once he was able to channel his focus into cycling, however, he found his element. Quitting his construction job and moving across the world, he found a niche tackling seemingly impossible ultra challenges and ra...

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0:00.0	I finished in Turkey and my dad had flown over to meet me and he said to me, look, how do you
0:04.8	feel about going back to work?
0:06.7	And I said, what, it's the last thing I want to do.
0:09.1	Like I've had such a good time here.
0:11.3	And he said to me, he said, why are you going back to work?
0:15.3	I said, we need to work, don't we?
0:19.6	And he said, if you don't enjoy it
0:21.2	you shouldn't do it
0:22.2	and so when I got back to work
0:24.2	the first day back I said to my boss
0:25.7	I'm going to hand in my notice
0:27.6	I don't want to work anymore
0:29.2	I'm a professional cyclist
0:31.5	and this is like
0:33.3	you know not long after coming out of rehab
0:35.4	it's showtime, everybody.
0:38.4	Showtime!
0:41.0	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:44.8	This is the world as it exists today.
0:49.7	Life moves pretty fast.
0:52.0	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:54.4	You could miss it.
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