When Endurance Shapes Identity

What happens when endurance sports stop being about performance and start becoming a mirror?

In this episode of Enduring Minds, part of the Everyday Athlete Podcast Network, hosts Jason Bahamundi and Evan Birch sit down with Elliott Rector for a conversation that goes far beyond miles, splits, and finish lines.

Elliott is a former litigation attorney turned men’s work facilitator whose journey will feel familiar to many endurance athletes. We talk about growing up with running, transitioning from road to trail, and what happens when repeated injuries, especially Achilles surgeries, force you to redefine what it means to be an athlete.

This episode explores mental health, identity, and the quiet risks involved in listening to your body when it’s telling you something important. Elliott opens up about leaving a successful legal career after a panic attack that changed everything, and how that moment eventually led him to facilitate men’s retreats centered on meditation, breathwork, movement, and meaningful connection.

This is a conversation about masculinity, vulnerability, resilience, and becoming, especially when the old version of you no longer fits.

🎧 Tune in, reflect, and keep moving forward...one honest mile at a time.

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