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Hi, I'm Joel Runyon. I'm a former-UPS driver turned endurance athlete. After being laid off after Christmas from UPS in 2009, I was at rock bottom in my parent's basement. I had a list of things I wanted to do, but they all seemed IMPOSSIBLE. After getting tired of feeling bad for myself, I turned the list into a challenge and called it my IMPOSSIBLE LIST.

Since, I've made it my mission to push my limits and do something impossible. I went from not being able to run a 5k to being one of 6 people to have run an ultra marathon on every continent in the world. I built IMPOSSIBLE into a business along with others including Ultimate Paleo Guide, Ultimate Meal Plans, StartABlog.com, and MoveWellApp.com.

If you're tired of settling for "possible" things and want to push your limits, get in incredible shape, and take control of your life - you're in the right place.

Start your IMPOSSIBLE List, Get Your IMPOSSIBLE shirt, and then start pushing your limits and doing something IMPOSSIBLE.

The New IMPOSSIBLE ® Store is Here

November 12, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

I’m excited to share the complete site redesign of our IMPOSSIBLE store at Impossible.co. We’re updating the site and making it easier to find the impossible gear, products, and formulations to help you push your limits. Here’s a preview, but you can check out all the site changes here. Here’s what’s new inside: The entire homepage is revamped to focus on the most popular products on the store. We flipped the entire color scheme of the site ...

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What Would Future You Wish You Did?

November 9, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

If you’re not sure what decision to make a useful question to ask yourself is this: "what would future you wish you did?" I’m not sure where I read this, but someone once said it’s easy to look back and wish you handled a situation differently in the past. But it’s actually more useful to look forward and ask yourself what future you wish you would do right now. When I started IMPOSSIBLE, it was because I asked myself a question: If your life was a ...

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Make Your Obstacles Mortal

October 31, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

If you are not where you want to be, why are you chilling so much? If you’re not where you want to be, you need to do more than just try new things. You need a new attitude. You need to go military on some things. You've got way too many obstacles taking up way too much space in your brain space. It's time to get rid of them. Make your obstacles mortal. Then crush them. It’s easy to have your excuses live in your head. When they live ...

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3 Sleep Experiments I’m Trying That Actually Work

October 20, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

I am not the world’s greatest sleeper. I think I usually sleep out of necessity more than desire. If I could get away with it - I'd rather pass. That said - I’ve been informed that I have to sleep every day - which I’ve double checked with the doctors - and I’ve unfortunately confirmed as true. So, I figured if I’m going to have to sleep - I might as well try to get better at it. So, over the past 6 months or so, here are 3 sleep experiments that ...

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The More You Do, The More You Do

October 12, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

The more you do, the more you do. One thing I’ve noticed about people who get a lot done is that there’s a compounding factor no one discusses. The more someone does, the more they seem to do. It’s counterintuitive, but when things start to pile up, there are two options: You can look for reasons to opt out.Or your can lean in. It’s easy to think that the people with clear schedules have wide open schedules and lots of time to get things ...

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Strength is Rare

August 30, 2021 By Joel Runyon 2 Comments

Strength is rare. And society likes it like that. They want you be weak, soft, comfortable. Discomfort is seen as a disorder, an invisible fence to keep you solidly within your zone of certainty, narrowing by the second. “Don’t even bother with that. Come back to the couch, sink in and relax. You’ve had it hard, detach from discomfort and let the dopamine flow.” Until every piece of discomfort is systematically removed bit by bit. And, if ...

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5 Impossible People Doing Impossible Things

August 16, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

Over the next few months, I want to highlight more people from the IMPOSSIBLE community doing impossible things. From the outside, people sometimes assume IMPOSSIBLE is all people who look like Joel. Or, a caricature of me. Something like a bunch of dude-bros in their 20-30s lifting weights and eating steak. Yes, all those things are awesome, but often, the people that it's the people that are nothing like me that inspire me the most and embody the ...

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Miss 1? Fine, Never Miss 2

July 28, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

I’ve been working out wildly consistently for the past 7 months. Almost maniacally 5 days / week. Sometimes I'll take the weekend off but usually I'm doing some active rest work. I've missed a day or two here over the months, but since January, I've been remarkably consistent. The only real thing that's changed was I removed the option for not going and instituted an unofficial rule with myself. If I miss one workout, that’s fine. But I never miss ...

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Get

July 13, 2021 By Joel Runyon Leave a Comment

Looking over my impossible list, I started to realize there's basically two types of things on my list that I've done: Type #1 - Things I Can Do On My Own Stuff like kitesurfing, running an ultra marathon, or starting a business. Pick something off the list, put it on the schedule, and do it. Type #2 - Stuff I Need Help For This is stuff like 777, impossible.org, and projects that are bigger than me. Type 1 tasks are easier to do. I ...

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things Is The Hard Thing

July 5, 2021 By Joel Runyon 1 Comment

I was 25 minutes into a workout titled “1-800-fuck-you” and struggling. 400 meter run. 12 lunges. 12 jumping lunges. Every 6 minutes. Each round you lose 10 seconds. At first it’s not bad, you can get through the work pretty easily. But as you get through a few rounds and drop 30 seconds - it starts to get real, real quick. I think I made it 6 rounds (40ish minutes) and change before missing the cutoff. Some badass made it 15 rounds. ...

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