Greetings from Switzerland. I arrived in the beautiful town of Davos yesterday. It's a sleepy little mountain town with some of the most picturesque mountain scenery you could imagine. Stuff like this everywhere you look. Tomorrow I'm running the Swiss Alpine K42 - a high alpine race and the highest marathon in Europe. I'm adding it on top of the Comrades ultra marathon in South Africa I ran last month in order to prepare for a new project ...
Impossible Gear Contest Winners
Finally! 4 weeks, an ultra marathon, 3 continents later, we have our winners of the Impossible Gear contest. I'm uber late on this and in order to make up for this, instead of just sending out 5 shirts or so, we're going big. I've got 20 some pieces to give away. If you're one of the winners, you'll receive an email with a form to fill out and you'll get your shirt in a few days. BOOM Remember, wearing an impossible shirt is a responsibility. ...
The 3 Focuses of IMPOSSIBLE In 2014
The 3 Focuses of IMPOSSIBLE In 2014 I spent a lot of time last year building systems. I'll share a little about that in the next few days, but I want to share about where IMPOSSIBLE is going in the next year. Behind the scenes - we've finally expanded the team beyond just myself. We brought on Joanna over the summer & she's been a huge part of what we've been able to do over the last few months. We've also built up a team of VAs that help us ...
Cold Shower Therapy™ – Now Available for iOS
About eighteen months ago, I wrote a short post about taking cold showers as a way of building discipline and structure into my life. I had no idea what that post would start. Since then, Cold Shower Therapy™ has taken on a life of its own. Cold Shower Therapy™ by The Numbers My TEDx talk on Cold Shower Therapy™ has been viewed over 45,000 times. Over 7,500 people have watched me demonstrate how to take a shower. Almost 20,000 people have ...
Impossible Gear Is Back!
The last few months I've been getting email after email: Why can't I buy Impossible shirts right now? Where’s the Impossible gear store gone? When am I going to be able get a new shirt? I’ve worn my old one out. (Yes, these were all real emails.) Email after email. I had to respond: “They’re coming. Don’t worry. Just be patient.” Well, the waiting is over. FINALLY, Impossible Gear is back in stock. Well, what happened? Long story ...
We Built A School (And I Have Proof!)
We built a school! Here's a glimpse: I just got back from Guatemala a few weeks ago to see the school and have been putting together the story & photos over the past few days and as I'm going over the images & stories, it still blows my mind that we actually built a school. However, there's a lot more to the story than just the visit - let’s start from the beginning. --- How It All Started Almost exactly a year ago, I got an email from ...
My TEDxLUC Cold Shower Therapy™ Talk
--- Back in March, I spoke at TEDxLUC, the independently organized TEDx event at Loyola University. It was my first ever TEDx talk. I almost didn't do it because I had a bunch of other things going on and I wasn't quite sure that I could pull it off in time. But one day I was taking a cold shower and I suddenly knew what I had to talk about. This wasn't my first speaking engagement (I've spoken at Target and at several colleges), but it's one of ...
The New Years Contest Transformation: 3 Incredible Stories
Woah. I'm finally getting my butt in gear and announcing our winners for the New Years contest. We had so many entries - it took me a while to get through them all. It's been a big process, but it's been really cool to see some of these transformations happen in real time. It was tough to narrow them down, not only going through physical changes, but also the stories of the people behind them but after much deliberation, we narrowed it down to our top 3 ...
The Domino Effect
Note: This is a more personal post than I typically write. Maybe it helps explain the reasoning behind what I do. Every once in a while someone asks me to change the way I write. "I really like your site, but if you could just change xyz then I think you'd really be more appealing." These comments are usually meant in good faith, but the message is still the same. "If you weren't so extreme, then you could bring in more people. You could expand your ...
Read This Post
Just read this post We've got a lot of really intriguing announcements, meetups, races and job postings (yes jobs!) in this post. I could come up with a fancy title for all of this, but just read this post. RSS --> Email RSS is dead (mostly). If you're reading this via email – relax and move on to the next item. If you're reading this via rss on the blog - this is for you! You might know that google recently killed google reader and if ...