ÖTILLÖ! Meeting Nature Writ Large

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

“This is our day. Now let's make the best of it versus comparing ourselves to others or our expectations.” Chris Hauth Today I am joined by my friend, coach and teammate Chris Hauth for a special edition of Coach’s Corner – a spin on my typical podcast format — to recap our breathtaking, once-in-a-lifetime adventure competing in the Ötillö Swimrun World Championships in Sweden. A sub-9 hour Ironman, Chris (@AIMPCoach) is a former professional triathlete, two-time Olympic Swimmer and one of the world’s most respected endurance coaches. In 2006, Chris won the Ironman Coeur D’Alene and went on to be the first American amateur & 4th overall American at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. When he’s not training and racing, Chris runs AIMP Coaching, mentoring a wide spectrum of athletes ranging from elite professionals — including Ironman and Western States top finishers, Ultraman winners and Olympic Trials qualifiers — to first time half-marathoners. Under Chris’ tutelage since 2008, he deftly guided me through three Ultraman World Championships,EPIC5. and now Ötillö. This past Monday, Chris and I joined 300 athletes from 24 countries to race Ötillö as a two-man team, traversing 26 islands spread across the outer-reaches of the Swedish archipelago on foot and by sea. All told, 40 miles of running and 6 miles of swimming. It was a truly extraordinary experience. Punishing. Humbling. Brutal, beautiful and beyond extreme. Along the way we met gale force winds. Sideways rain. Bone-chilling Baltic waters. And six-foot swells. We were on our hands and knees, scaling vertical granite slippery as ice. We trudged through bogs in knee-deep mud. Loose rocks left us flat on our backs. We bushwhacked terrain so difficult, so impossibly technical, it all feels now like an impossible dream. Today we share the incredible story. I sincerely hope you enjoy the exchange. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	There's days that are going to be like you had yesterday for everybody and you're going
0:06.3	to not feel good the first hour and the voices and the emotions and the self-talk that's
0:14.2	happening in those moments.
0:16.5	That's where you have to trust in your fitness.
0:20.1	You have to trust in the work that you've invested in yourself in the training and that's
0:25.5	not miles run at a certain pace or distance or yard swam in the pool.
0:31.4	That's the consistency of the daily emotions you have in training, right?
0:35.7	Where you build that foundation that yes, I will finish this.
0:39.7	I know I can.
0:41.4	You don't even have to dig into those yesterday.
0:44.2	You just know deep down inside I've done the work.
0:47.4	I will traverse this distance.
0:49.8	I don't have to think too much or ask myself too hard to do too much about it.
0:55.2	It's going to be a difficult day and here we go.
0:58.2	That's Chris Houth and this is another edition of Coaches Corner on the Retroll Podcast.
1:04.4	The Rich Roll Podcast.
1:15.5	Hey everybody, my name is Rich Roll.
1:19.2	I'm your host, welcome to my podcast and a very special Coaches Corner edition of the
1:25.6	show featuring a race recap on our Odeleau performance.
1:31.5	I'm here with Chris Houth, my coach, my friend, my teammate.
1:35.3	How you doing, Chris?
1:36.3	Awesome.
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