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Is it hard to run a marathon on a prosthetic blade? If you listened to the episode this spring with Brian Reynolds, and I encourage you to go back and listen to it if you didn’t, you’d probably agree the answer is yes. Completing a triathlon, a 100-miler, completing the Tunnel Hill 100-miler in less than 19 hours? You’d even more likely say that’s amazing. And you’d say Adam Popp of Golden, CO is amazing. Adam joined the Air Force at 18 years old, and volunteered to become a bomb disposal technician. He served a tour in Iraq and then while on duty in Afghanistan he inadvertently detonated an IED that blew off his leg and severely injured his arm. He woke up in a military hospital in Germany, then spent months Stateside experiencing the teamwork and camaraderie of the military applied to his recovery and physical therapy. He decided to focus that military discipline and intensity into the athletic world and eventually found his niche in running and triathlons. The not-so-secret of this 43-year old’s improvement, as I often preach, is his consistency. These sports have provided him the opportunity to run races like the Boston and Prague Marathons, the JFK 50-miler multiple times, the CCC, which is a very difficult 100K on the UTMB course in Chamonix, France, the World Triathlon Para Championships in Yokohama, Japan and a lot more, with upcoming major triathlon races coming in Montreal and the UK. Adam is also currently getting a Master’s degree in Sports and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver to help other athletes improve their own sports careers. He got married last year, and he and his wife are now expecting their first child. I believe you will be really inspired by Adam’s courage and drive, the kind of story I love bringing to you on the WASP.

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