The Thin Line Podcast

Just Keep Tri-ing with Jim Logan

This episode features a powerful conversation with Jim Logan, an Ironnan triathlete living with stage four metastatic colorectal cancer. Jim shares how faith, endurance, and daily discipline have reshaped his life, his training, and his outlook on suffering, success, and purpose.We discuss his road to Kona, the story behind his book Just Keep Trying, and why he believes the real victory is not the finish line but the person you become along the way.

Key topics

• Jim shares his background, from growing up in New Jersey and Germany to building a life in Atlanta, marrying his wife, raising his son, and recently retiring from his business.
• He explains his stage four metastatic colorectal cancer diagnosis, the grim prognosis he was given, and how he is now showing no evidence of disease while continuing chemo.
• The group explores the origin of his book, Just Keep Trying, which grew out of a low point in his cancer journey and his decision to dedicate his remaining time to service.
• Jim breaks down why his repeated Iron Man DNFs were not failures to him, but learning experiences that helped prepare him for Kona.
• He describes the shift from chasing finish lines to valuing the start line, the training process, and the long-term formation that endurance sport creates.
• The conversation digs into his philosophy of discipline, sacrifice, suffering, and pain as the pillars of growth.
• Jim explains the difference between pain and suffering, and how hard training can feel like a cleansing process that clears out mental and emotional clutter.
• He talks about using endurance training as a way to fight cancer mentally, physically, and spiritually, and why he believes cancer hates inactivity.
• The episode explores “new information, new plan” as a way to pivot without quitting when life or health changes.
• Jim shares how positive self-talk, cautious optimism, faith, and doing the work have helped him rebuild after diagnosis.
• He reflects on meaningful suffering versus needless suffering, and the importance of having a team around him, including his coach, oncologist, and wife.
• The episode closes with Jim’s fundraising goal, his Iron Man Foundation efforts, and the book’s broader message of hope, resilience, and purpose.

Timestamps

• 00:00 — Welcome to The Thin Line podcast and introduction of Jim
• 00:41 — Jim’s Iron Man story and the upcoming Kona World Championship
• 02:00 — Jim’s life story, family, business, and cancer diagnosis
• 03:43 — Why he wrote Just Keep Tri-ing during his lowest point
• 05:40 — Failure, repeated DNFs, and long obedience in the same direction
• 08:43 — Shifting from finish-line thinking to start-line thinking
• 11:24 — What to do on the days when motivation disappears
• 13:24 — Loving the journey instead of obsessing over race day
• 18:49 — The meaning of DSSP: discipline, sacrifice, suffering, and pain
• 21:05 — Pain versus suffering and the emotional cleansing of training
• 22:39 — How pain became part of the mission against cancer
• 26:52 — Suffering, surgery, chemo, and being prepared for race day
• 28:33 — Suffering needlessly versus making wise training decisions
• 31:03 — “New information, new plan” and learning to pivot
• 36:53 — Positive self-talk, cautious optimism, and faith-first thinking
• 39:30 — Faith, doing the work, and rowing the boat
• 40:42 — Where to find Jim, support the foundation, and get the book

Follow Jim and support his work

• Follow Jim on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stage42025/?hl=en
  
• Contribute to Jim’s Ironman Foundation fundraiser: https://ironmanfoundation.donordrive.com/participants/4148

• Order Jim’s book, Just Keep Trying, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1971949256/

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