The Brian Keane Podcast #328: Endurance Athlete Ger Prendergast on Building Mental Toughness, Ultra Endurance Races and Rewiring Your Relationship With Failure!
Ger is an Ultra Endurance Triathlete, a personal trainer and fitness coach.
In October 2017 Ger competed in and won one of the world's toughest Ultra endurance events The Deca UK- 10 Ironman distance triathlons in 10 days. Completing it more than four hours ahead of his closest competitor.
In 2018 Ger took on another challenge. After the loss of his brother in law to suicide, Ger teamed up with Mental Health Ireland to help raise funding and awareness for mental health. He tasked himself with completing 52 Ironman's in 52 weeks for 2018. In May 2018 he also completed a 100 Mile run in 20 hours on a 550 meter loop.
Ger believes his vegan plant based diet is a huge contributor to his ability to complete these events, challenges and races. After becoming blinded in one eye when he was a kid, he is a firm believer that we choose to play the cards we're dealt in life. If you're looking to build mental toughness, improve your resilience or rewire your relationship with failure, this is the episode for you.
Here are some of things we talked about in today's podcast.
- Balancing training and family
- His crazy challenges and what he gets from them (or why he does them)
- Using difficult situations as opportuneness to building self confidence
- How anyone can build mental toughness and resilience
- The secret to success - rewiring your relationship with failure
- His most difficult physical challenges
- The highs and lows from his 2017 Deca UK win
Gerard's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ger_prendergast/?hl=en