There's No One to Save You, How to Prepare for an Expedition/ ENDURANCE

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ben Friberg, extreme endurance paddler talks with Johnny Waite, of Spartan Up Podcast, about how to prepare for the really big, self-supported, expedition-style adventures where you will be truly on your own. An example is Ben's dream crossing - the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska, alone on a stand-up paddleboard. Ben Stresses the importance of preparation - doing your research, knowing your gear and your body, and considering how to handle absolute worst-case scenarios, including injuries. He reminds us that when you have enough moving parts to a plan, you have to know that something is going to go wrong! JOhnny'ss favorite part is when Ben talks about the potential beauty of a Painted Corner (when you get yourself in a situation where you have eliminated all other options) and the spiritual epiphany that led to him composing a song by that title.

#1 - How Ben uncovers every stone (e.g., analyzing weather patterns, talking to locals, reading books on the terrain he’s going to traverse) to prepare for a self-supported paddle expedition

#2 - How navigating class-5 rapids equipped Ben for a career in self-supported adventures

#3 - Why crossing the Bering Strait is Ben’s “white whale” of self-supported paddle expeditions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Going back to my whitewater background, I mean everything was, it was kind of always self-supported.
0:05.1	You know, when you go into a gorge and you're within those walls and you've got to navigate a bunch of
0:12.4	classified rapids in certain cases to get from point 8 to point B.
0:15.0	You are, it's just you, that's it.
0:19.0	You know, some of the rivers that we went to,
0:22.0	if anything ever went wrong, you know, there's nobody that could even actually physically put themselves in that environment and navigate the waterways to get to where you are.
0:33.4	So that's self support in its purest form.
0:37.8	Welcome to the Spartan endurance series
0:39.8	on Spartan Up podcast with host Johnny White.
0:43.8	Hey, Spartan's Johnny White here,
0:45.0	one of the hosts of the Spartan Up Podcast.
0:46.9	We have Ben Freiburg back again today
0:49.0	for another special endurance episode.
0:51.1	Ben is an unbelievable paddler. He is paddled in some of the most remote
0:54.1	regions of the world. He's also a race director of Chatterjack, a 50 kilometer
0:57.3	race in the Tennessee River. And today Ben's going to talk to us about how to
1:00.9	prepare for an event that you're not going to be able to have outside support for.
1:04.4	So how to make sure that you are ready to go and do this on your own.
1:07.6	Very, very important before you dive into these big, big adventures.
1:10.4	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by True Form runner.
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