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now weather reports from coastal
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stations Southeast Iceland northerly
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storm 10 snow showers So lowest
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temperatures probably around - 2 to - 6
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bringing a cooler feel along some of
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those North Sea coast But it really just
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discipline And I could probably quote
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some abstract idea from ancient Greece
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reality it's just saying yes a thousand
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body is screaming out
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No I think so often when you hit the
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wall people say it's your mind giving up
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before your body Other people might say
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"Oh actually it's your body giving up."
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Whereas I think now sports scientists
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are kind of understanding it's the
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psychobiological model of fatigue It's
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both If you understand your
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biochemistry motivation is something you
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can almost supplement But at some point
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when that runs out discipline is just so
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much more enduring It's so much more
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reliable I like the term you're almost
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like a savage scholar and it's knowing
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when to do both So there are times when
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you can sit down you can speak to your
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team and you say um I'm depleted of
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electrolytes Um I'm muscle glycogen
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depleted And that's you talking as a
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scholar But then other times you are
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swimming 10 foot ways you're in Iceland
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cracking ice off your wet suit The water
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is like minus one That's probably a time
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to become a savage cuz you can't go into
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something like a swim around Iceland and
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savage When you look at sports science
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there are components of fitness whether
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it's um strength your body's ability to
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generate force cardiorespiratory
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endurance agility speed they all have
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specific definitions But when you're
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caught in an Arctic storm and you're
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picking off bits of your tongue sort of
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leaving bits of skin around your neck
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cuz it's chafing It will come down to
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work capacity It will be discipline and
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work capacity Tide after tide and you
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continue to just throw yourself
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overboard and swim That's why looking at
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my training now it might be faux running
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it might be carrying weights up a
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mountain it will be swimming and there
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will be lots of food But ultimately the
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goal is exactly the same work capacity
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So one thing I really want to talk about
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is is the discipline of nutrition I
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actually wrote an entire chapter on this
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in my book The Art of Resilience I
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called it Heroics in Hunger If I can use
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an analogy it's basically like if you
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were in a car right now it was an
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amazing car It was the best car The
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biggest engine Uh goes so fast It's
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incredible The seats are really comfy
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really warm It's amazing But there's no
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fuel in it You're not going to get to
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your destination And I think it's so
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interesting the amount of athletes
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sometimes who don't put the right fuel
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in their body but they want to go and
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run a fast 5k a 10k swim around Great
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Britain swim around Iceland It's not
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going to work At my protein when we've
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sat down and we've looked at the
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nutritional demands you have to hit
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certain things If you don't hit your
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nutritional needs you can have the most
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willpower in the world but the car is
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move On the Iceland swim it's going to
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be quite similar to swimming around
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Great Britain where you basically swim
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for six hours sleep for six hours swim
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for six hours So you're swimming with
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the tide and then resting when it's
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against you So you have almost this um
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bifphasic sleep And at my protein we're
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so ahead of the curve So it's so good
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I'm constantly checking in with the guys
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at MPD and they're just using me as like
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a little bit of a guinea pig going take
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this do this and disappear off out to
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sea And that's exactly what I do
