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Pushing Beyond Pain: What I Learned About Myself #shorts

May 29, 2026 / 02:17

This episode discusses adventure racing, personal challenges, and resilience. The guest shares experiences from the Godzone race, including physical pain and emotional moments.

The guest recounts their participation in the Godzone, an 8.5-day adventure race, where a teammate had to be airlifted off the mountain. They continued as a team of three and later brought in a friend to help finish the race.

During the final stage, the guest experienced severe pain while trying to put on their shoes, with their support crew helping them. Their parents watched, visibly emotional as their child struggled.

Despite the pain, the guest learned about their own strength and determination, realizing they could push through tough situations. They expressed a desire to sign up for the next race immediately after finishing.

This conversation highlights the lessons learned from extreme challenges and the importance of support from friends and family during difficult times.

TLDR

The guest shares their painful experience in the Godzone race and the lessons learned about resilience and pushing limits.

Episode

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What I learned about myself is that you can you can do hard things basically. >> The um very first Godzone, what did you
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learn about yourself during that, if anything? >> Yeah, it was definitely a wake-up call.
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Uh it was 8 and 1/2 days. We we one of our teammates actually, he got choppered off the mountain.
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And yeah, it was that was crazy. We'd never seen that before and we kind of continued on as a
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team of three and then one of our they wanted four teenagers out there, so we called in one of our mates to help us
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finish the last stage and yeah, I was my feet were in serious like I've never
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actually no, I have been in that much pain before, but at that moment that was the most pain I'd ever been in in my
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life and I remember coming to the last stage and we had a 21k beach trail run, but
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I remember loading myself up with painkillers and there's a video of me um one of cuz this
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race was supported and Andy uh our support crew, he put my shoes on for me because I couldn't put
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my own shoes on and there was uh tears dripping down my face because putting shoes on was like the most
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severe pain I could ever imagine and my mom and my dad were watching Andy put shoes on me and I was I mean we were
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just gripping. I was sitting on a seat I just remember gripping the seat because
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putting shoes on was just so so so painful and I just looked at mom and she was just like crying cuz she was like
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she's watching her daughter in that much pain having to go do a the final stage of the Godzone and
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I crossed the finish line we ran it. What I learned about myself is that you can
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you can do hard things, basically. And I got to the end of that race, and sure enough 1 second later, I wanted to sign
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up for the next year. You definitely learn that you can push beyond what you think you
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can. And I feel like that's yeah, something that adventure racing definitely helps you to

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Episode Highlights

  • A Lesson in Resilience
    The racer learns about pushing beyond limits during the Godzone.
    “You can do hard things, basically.”
    @ 00m 03s
    May 29, 2026
  • The Pain of Adventure Racing
    A racer shares their harrowing experience of extreme pain during a grueling race.
    “Putting shoes on was just so so so painful.”
    @ 01m 36s
    May 29, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • It was definitely a wake-up call.
    Pushing Beyond Pain: What I Learned About Myself #shorts
  • Putting shoes on was just so so so painful.
    Pushing Beyond Pain: What I Learned About Myself #shorts
  • You can do hard things, basically.
    Pushing Beyond Pain: What I Learned About Myself #shorts
  • I wanted to sign up for the next year.
    Pushing Beyond Pain: What I Learned About Myself #shorts

Key Moments

  • Wake-up Call00:09
  • Extreme Pain01:36
  • Resilience02:04

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