Fire Fighters Everywhere! Part 2 of the Firies Climb for MND/ Helen Waterworth and Chris Newsome from His & Hers Endurance KITZ - Dirt Church Radio 293.
Kia Ora e te whānau! If, as we posited last week, the collective noun for a group of Fire Fighters is a Calendar then in this episode we’ve got most of the months ticked off!!! First off, we’ve got all the action from day 2 of the Firies Climb for MND.
Then in the second part of our show Matt had the pleasure of sitting down at home with Helen Waterworth and Chris Newsome from His & Hers Endurance Events KITS when they swung through from Whangarei on their way to The Great Naseby.
We love these people, they are inspiring, down-to-earth legends who have devoted most of their adult life to serving the community as members of the New Zealand fire service, and now are serving the trail running community with their business, which is essentially to act as your running event concierges, and as event directors, not only with Kings Backyard- where the record for most laps on NZ soil was broken this year, and with Whangārei five one two challenge.
What’s more, they are no slouches at endurance events themselves, with Chris having won the River run backyard in its inaugural year and Helen just back from a PB of 32 laps at Clint Eastwood in Australia. Best Enjoyed Running.
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Why Do We Need A Why? An Argument For A Values-Based Approach To Running
– Matt
In six years of DCR one thing I’ve managed to avoid is having the laser focus and argon intensity of Eugene Bingham’s interview skills trained on me. That is until our conversation about my upcoming hundred mile attempt in February.
We were talking about my “why”, the thing that is going to not only get me to the start line but keep me going through the times when things would invariably become very, very tough.
I think I said something like ‘to test myself’ so something equally anodyne like that. In the big book of “interview subjects lining themselves up for a follow up” it was a gimme, and to be fair to the bro, it was probably from him a 3/10 at best, but he pressed me and it rocked me back on my heels.
I stumbled something out that I’ve been too embarrassed to go back and listen to. I left the conversation with the dawning realisation that I don't have a “why” in the traditional sense, and this worried me. Or more honestly, my lack of worry about this worried me.
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