The psychology of ultra endurance events. Is it all about suffering?

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The psychology of completing ultra endurance events is one of staying in the moment. but looking deeper, why are we participating in the first place ? What drives us to push our bodies far beyond our preconditioned limits. Lance Armstrong has said "All endurance athletes are running away from something". Is he right? This video uses images from ultra endurance cycling and considers "suffering" in the makeup of an endurance athlete.

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[80andybrown80]

Perfect !

When I ride everything I had worried, thought about dissapears. The only thing that matters is getting it done. Imo the Sport of the everymans Kings.

Push yourself to new limits you thought you never had and a whole new world opens up. Just a pity other people in less fortunate circumstances need to do it every day as a way off life to survive.

Ride free, ride long, live.

[jclarencelove3rd]

why ruin it with a pedestrian song that is bombastic and banal?

[volksquadman]

THIS video with its beautiful words i have previously written in a book after riding 3000+kms from Faro in Portugal to Le Havre with no money on a scrap bike using food from bins. Your words are only relevant if one does this distance. They are the things you begin to realise after 24 day alone. This is beautiful. Bins benches and broken bikes -spelling mistakes arn't important- the message is clear. Do it.

[bryan3550]

Nice... except "existence" doesn't have an "a" in it...