Welcome to Episode #339 of the 303 Endurance Podcast. You are listening to your weekly connection to coaches, experts, and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance goals. We're your hosts coach Rich Soares and 303 Chief Bill Plock. Thanks for joining us for another week of endurance interviews and discussion.

 

Our guest this week is Robyn Benincasa. Robyn is a World Champion Adventure Racer, Fire Fighter and top Keynote speaker sharing the skills that transfer from Adventure Racing to the corporate world.

 

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In Today's Show

• Guest: World Champion Adventure Racer and Top Keynote Speaker Robyn Benincasa
• Endurance News
• • Alistair Brownlee is out of the Pho3nix Sub7 Attempt due to injury!
  • Ironman N. America Championship in Des Moines Course Recon
• What's new in the 303
• • Triathlon and Run Races this weekend
  • Ride the Rockies
• Video of the Week
• • Robyn Benincasa and Project Athena CNN Hero

 

Feature Interview: Robyn Benincasa

Robyn Benincasa has made an art form of extreme performance by competing and winning at the highest levels of sport and business. Robyn is an award-winning keynote speaker, a 20+ year veteran San Diego firefighter, a World Champion Adventure Racer, a 2014 CNN Hero, a Guinness World Record Endurance Kayaker, a New York Times best-selling author, and the Founder of The Project Athena Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping survivors of medical or other traumatic setbacks achieve their adventurous dreams. Robyn is known as an inspirational force for leadership, teambuilding, and extreme performance. Her game-changing keynotes have earned Robyn accolades as one of the Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World, the #1 Female Speaker for Meetings.net, and one of the Top 10 Speakers featured by Harvard Business Review. For the past 15 years, Robyn’s keynotes have received rave reviews from user groups, associations, and Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Walmart, Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, Yahoo, Intel, and more.

 

When the challenges are steep, the goals audacious, and the competition fierce, Robyn gives individuals and organizations the tools they need to inspire themselves and one another to their greatest heights and across their most challenging finish lines.

 

Post Interview:

Firefighter faces down osteoarthritis and FOUR hip replacements to break world paddleboarding record, paddling non-stop for 90 miles around Californian harbor

Robyn Benincasa broke the record in Huntington Beach Harbour

The 47-year-old is a lifelong triathlon competitor and adventure racer

But she was diagnosed with severe degenerative disease in 2007

It forced Mrs Benincasa to give up on racing altogether

So she took on paddleboarding as a new test of her endurance

 

Robyn's contact information:

[email protected]

[email protected]

 

 

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