In 2019, Sarah Davis became the first woman to lead an expedition along the length of the Nile and joined me on the show in episodes 34 and 134 to discuss it.
This time she returns to share her next epic adventure, in which she’s swapping her paddles for pedals and will ride 5,000 unsupported across Australia!
In this conversation, we discuss:
* why, just 8 months after finishing her Nile expedition, she decided to paddle the length of Australia’s longest river, the Murray - a journey of 2,500km
* where (and when) the idea to ride across Australia came from,
* the logistics involved and how she’s preparing her body - and butt! - for the ride,
* what she the Nile expedition taught her about risk management and how you can manage the risks associated with your adventures,
* mental health challenges, eating disorders and developing a deeper appreciation for what your body can do, as opposed to what it looks like.
Get the full show notes for the episode here.
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Dr Stacy Sims is an environmental exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist at the University of Waikato in NZ.
She’s an incredible athlete in her own right too, having competed at the Hawaii Ironman in Kona as well as the Xterra World Championships in Maui.
And she’s the author of an important book called Roar.
It is a profound book that will challenge everything you thought you knew about training, nutrition, racing and recovery.
At the core of Stacy’s work is the concept that women are not small men.
It seems obvious, I know!
However the majority of sports science research - and a result, the majority of what we understand about the best way to train, eat, drink, race and recover - has been done on men.
Even the common training program structure of 3 weeks of training followed by 1 week of recovery is - you guessed it! - based on research done on men, without any regard for the hormonal changes experienced by women each month.
Yet given that every system in our body changes across the month (not just our hormones), it’s hard and frustrating to believe this “shrink it and pink it” approach has also been applied to sports science.
But unfortunately, it has!
Stacy and I bust some common myths about how women should train, race, eat and recover in this in-depth conversation.
Get the full show notes for the episode here.
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