Name: How An Overweight 40-Year-Old Became A Top Ultra-Athlete
Uploaded: 2019-10-15T04:16:25.000Z
Duration: 3 min 20 s
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Ultra-endurance sports didn't just change me physically,

Throughout my 30s, I was climbing the corporate ladder,

the traditional idea of the American dream.

But deep down inside, I started to question

I really hadn't been taking care of myself.

I was 50 pounds overweight, kind of semi-depressed,

I was climbing up a simple flight of stairs

to go to bed one evening, and I had to pause halfway.

and it was a very specific moment in time

but that I had the willingness that I truly wanted to.

I realized that vague ideas of eating better

or working out a little bit or going to the gym

I needed something specific, something definitive.

I'd played around with a bunch of different diets,

experiment in plant-based eating as kind of the last

nothing with a mother, nothing with a face,

my mental acuity improved, my sleep improved,

I had this sense of well-being and energy

that I hadn't really felt since I was a teenager.

And I didn't really know what I was doing,

but I knew in that moment that I was onto something.

about human potential and my own potential,

because if I could make such a simple, basic shift

where were there other untapped reservoirs

And that's what got me interested, ultimately,

and at the time, I was still a practicing attorney,

I have four kids, I'm busy doing a lot of things,

and in order to make the time that was required

at how I was spending my time on a day-to-day basis.

I had to get rid of late-night television

and sort of business meetings that could be

pushed to a conference call or an email chain

so I could show up at the starting line and know

in my heart of hearts that I could complete this race.

I started training, which really connected me

and to the surprise of myself and many other people,

I ended up showing some prowess in this field

and ended up competing at a very high level,

which is a double Ironman distance triathlon.