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#19 Starting Late — Risk, Reinvention, and Entering the Arena Anyway
May 2, 2024

#19 Starting Late — Risk, Reinvention, and Entering the Arena Anyway

🌊"The biggest thing that impacts you when you first go out there, before I even surfed it, I just went out on a on a jet ski and sat there and watched, is the sound it makes when it breaks...its terrifying" 🏄🏽‍♀️ At the age of 59 years and 8 months, Conacher became the oldest person in the world to…

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#18 Built by Habit — Endurance, Consistency, and Respecting Limits
April 25, 2024

#18 Built by Habit — Endurance, Consistency, and Respecting Limits

"It's not selfish to honor your ability 💪. While I can, I have an obligation to use my gifts and make my mark 🏆. Someday I won't be able to, so I'll make the most of the time I have ⏳." Matt Eggleton, a former US Air Force veteran and accomplished endurance athlete, challenges age stereotypes by do…

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#17 Transforming Fear — Courage, Curiosity, and Staying Alive to Wonder
April 18, 2024

#17 Transforming Fear — Courage, Curiosity, and Staying Alive to Wond…

"What nature asks of us when we go outside is to be strong, is to use our cognitive faculties, to be nimble, to be exhilarated, and to be brave. All of that flies in the face of what we're told about our aging ." ⛰️ 💪🏾 Caroline Paul, a true renaissance woman, has spent her life shattering stereotyp…

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#16 Staying Alive on the Edge — Risk, Awareness, and What Struggle Teaches
April 11, 2024

#16 Staying Alive on the Edge — Risk, Awareness, and What Struggle Te…

⛰️"It's the struggle on those 3,000 feet that matters, the journey IS the climb."🧗‍♀️ Hans Florine has a lifelong love affair with Yosemite's El Capitan, setting and breaking speed records on its iconic face, having climbed it almost 200 times. We talked about his climbing philosophy, staying safe …

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#15 Reclaiming a Body — Disability, Determination, and the Will to Climb
April 2, 2024

#15 Reclaiming a Body — Disability, Determination, and the Will to Cl…

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing well" Meet Wayne Willoughby- an adaptive rock climber who defied incredible odds and has climbed El Cap, not once, or twice, but a mind-boggling 26 times. 🧗‍♂️🏔️ From battling polio and disabilities since infancy, to suffering terrible injuries, Wayne overcame …

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#14 When the Body Pushes Back — Injury, Strength, and Reinvention
March 26, 2024

#14 When the Body Pushes Back — Injury, Strength, and Reinvention

"Strength training is healthcare." 💪🏋️‍♀️ With that powerful statement, teen climbing prodigy, turned climbing and fitness savant, Dr. Natasha Barnes cuts through the confusion around exercise, fitness, and longevity in climbing and quality of life. From a former winner of bouldering US Nationals, …

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#13 At the Edge of the Map — Preparation, Fear, and Alaska’s Wild Water
March 20, 2024

#13 At the Edge of the Map — Preparation, Fear, and Alaska’s Wild Wat…

🌊"I ate 28 cals of chocolate for each mile paddled" 🌊 Katrin Tomanek is a true multi sport athlete who blends her career as a topnotch data scientist, with a passion for pushing physical and mental boundaries through uncommon solo adventures in wild and beautiful places. Born in Germany, and a form…

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#12 Top Form in Her 50s— Endurance, Hormones, and Redefining What’s Possible
March 14, 2024

#12 Top Form in Her 50s— Endurance, Hormones, and Redefining What’s P…

"By mile 80 you are questioning life choices" 🎯 At 62, enduring champion ultra-runner, Megan Canfield, is not slowing down. In the past 3 decades, Meghan has qualified and run in the US Olympic marathon trials 4 times, has completed the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run 13 times, with 10 of tho…

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#11 Aging Joyfully — Craft, Choice, and Playing the Long Game
March 6, 2024

#11 Aging Joyfully — Craft, Choice, and Playing the Long Game

“One more 5.14 before I die” In today's episode, we head into the epic ️ mountains of Nuevo León, Mexico 🇲🇽 to meet two incredible rock climbers, Maggie and Chuck Odette! This sport climbing power couple has been quietly pushing the limits of their sport while building a beautiful and loving relati…

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#10 Running for Joy — Creativity, Movement, and Aging Well
Feb. 28, 2024

#10 Running for Joy — Creativity, Movement, and Aging Well

**Want to hear about an athlete who combines running with artistic expression? ** This week on Ageless Athlete, we meet Frank Chan, a 51-year-old engineer who started running marathons just a few years ago, at the age of 45! Despite his late start, Frank has already conquered over 13 marathons and …

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#9 After the Fall — Addiction, Recovery, and Finding the Ocean Again
Feb. 23, 2024

#9 After the Fall — Addiction, Recovery, and Finding the Ocean Again

“Surfing was always on my mind,” said the Cocoa Beach, Florida native. “I had a poster of Cory Lopez hanging up in my rehab room for inspiration. I never realized how much I loved surfing, until it was taken away from me.” Th...

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#8 What Pain Teaches — Training Hard Without Breaking Down
Feb. 16, 2024

#8 What Pain Teaches — Training Hard Without Breaking Down

When I Invited Dr Tyler Nelson to come on the show, I knew he would drop the hammer on climbing training beta, but little did I know how wowed I’d be with the applicability of his knowledge across sports. Tyler’s lessons on t...

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#7 At 77, Not Done Yet — Consistency, Curiosity, and Small Wins
Feb. 9, 2024

#7 At 77, Not Done Yet — Consistency, Curiosity, and Small Wins

🚀 A dynamo of focus and tenacity – Lee Sheftel is 77 and has been crushing it since forever. At almost 60, achieving 5.14, a 99.9% percentile grade in rock climbing, completing the Grand Teton traverse at 70 – Lee's rewriting...

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#6 Charging In His 70s — Curiosity, Career, and a Life Built Around the Ocean
Feb. 4, 2024

#6 Charging In His 70s — Curiosity, Career, and a Life Built Around t…

Join in this exceedingly rare conversation with Dr. Mark Renneker, a distinguished figure in the realm of big wave surfing hailing from San Francisco. With a surfing tenure spanning nearly six decades, Dr. Renneker has secure...

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#5 Ari Tulla - Endurance Sports for Longevity vs Intensity, Water Fasting, Tracking Sleep and Personalized Supplements for All
Jan. 29, 2024

#5 Ari Tulla - Endurance Sports for Longevity vs Intensity, Water Fas…

Love the show, hate the show? Send us a text message! This week, we delve into the world of water fasting and its potential as a secret weapon, along with the surprising impact of even the occasional drink on sleep quality (w...

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#4 Games Within the Game — Mastery, Humor, and Climbing for Life
Jan. 22, 2024

#4 Games Within the Game — Mastery, Humor, and Climbing for Life

Get ready to hang with the one and only Tom Addison from Northern California; low-key but outperforming with a lifetime of big wall ascents and a knack for crushing sport climbing up to 5.14. But hold on, there's more to Tom ...

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#3 Between Two Worlds — Dual Athlete, and Choosing a Bigger Mission
Jan. 12, 2024

#3 Between Two Worlds — Dual Athlete, and Choosing a Bigger Mission

Rare privilege of meeting with Dr Kevin Starr, accomplished rock climber, big wave surfer and social enterprise CEO. Growing up in San Diego, Kevin fell in love with both the mountains and the ocean, started hiking and climbi...

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#1 Chasing Better Waves — Tuning Body, Mind, and a Life in Motion
Jan. 11, 2024

#1 Chasing Better Waves — Tuning Body, Mind, and a Life in Motion

“ The first time I paddled out, I knew immediately that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life ” Vishal is a talented surfer based out of San Diego, CA and chasing the best waves in California and beyond. Vishal...

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#2 Joy Is In The Limits — Training, Curiosity, and Staying Playful
Jan. 11, 2024

#2 Joy Is In The Limits — Training, Curiosity, and Staying Playful

Today, we speak with Dr Carling Ursem, an accomplished trail runner from Northern California. Carling specializes in ultra-runs (runs with distances longer than traditional marathon races of 26.2 miles) and holds many FKTs (f...

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#0 Ageless Athlete - Tap Into Stories and Secrets of Elite Rock Climbers, Alpinists, Surfers, Runners, Cyclists, et al. How do they do this, and how what can they teach us?
Jan. 11, 2024

#0 Ageless Athlete - Tap Into Stories and Secrets of Elite Rock Climb…

Love the show, hate the show? Send us a text message! Hey there, friends, old and new! 🌟 I've got something pretty special to share - the Ageless Athlete Podcast. It's this passion project I've been nursing, and I'm honestly ...

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