Do You Have One More Life Changing Challenge Left in You?- David Alley

During today’s show, I get the chance to speak with inspirational figure, David Alley. David was the first person to both cycle and run around the edge of Australia.

I know listeners will appreciate hearing about David’s multi-year journey to train and re-train his body for cycling and running great distances. They will also have the opportunity to hear David’s reasons for raising money for Depression awareness and why that may be such an important issue for runners, in particular.

What makes David Alley so inspirational are not just his athletic achievements, but also his passion and compassion for the human spirit. Listen in as we discuss his journey and the great people he met along the way.

Today’s Topics Include:

David’s athletic journey and how it all began
His motivation for the cycle trip and why he raised money for the Royal Flying Doctors Service
Training methods for cycling
Taking on the same route as a runner
Advice for taking on running and letting your body adapt
Why he chose to raise money for Depression awareness
His team/support crew and how they worked together to achieve a major record
Fascinating people David met along his run
His struggles achieving a record-breaking run
David’s thoughts during the final stretch and after he crossed the finish line
Meeting Ron Grant while on his journey
Encouragement and advice for those looking to accomplish their goals

Questions Asked to Dave

Will you share your previous running journey up to 2011 (2:00)
How did you overcome the doubt associated with accomplishing such a HUGE task? (4:00)
Without any experience, how did you know how to break it down? (5:30)
When you completed your first ironman, did you reach the realization you could do anything you put your mind to? (6:40)
How long did you train for it before you started the race around Australia? (12:30)
How did you break the race up in your mind during those moments of self doubt, how did you stay positive to believe this huge goal could be accomplished? (13:40)
Did you ever imagine that there could be anything more difficult than this? (16:10)
Three years later you began your second race around Australia (running over 8000miles), will you share that journey with us (17:20)
Did physicians generally supportive? (19:30)
Do you have any advice for runners who have just started and keep getting injured of how to persevere and keep going through the transition phase (21:00)
You ran the race for the white cloud foundation who work with depression, why did you decide this was who you wanted to run for? (22:30)
How many people were in your team/crew and how were they involved in the race? (24:15)
Will you tell us about some of the people you met along your journey, starting with Lizzie- 76 years old, every year flies into Darwin and cycles to Perth on her own (27:00)
Were you surprised with how people rallied behind you? (29:46)
How did you make it through the lows and the moments you did not think you would make it? (31:30)
Tell us about crossing the finish, the final stretch (36:30)
What was the official finish time for the 13,000km journey? (39:30)
What was it like to become an overnight celebrity? (40:30)
Is there another challenge still in there? (41:30)

[bctt tweet=”What an inspiration! David Alley is an every day runner who can inspire us all”]

Quotes/Tweets:

“I was bitten by the endurance bug…” -David Alley

“There were so many that said it can’t be done and I was mad just to take it on…” -David Alley

“I’m not afraid to admit that I had days early on that I spent the day in tears.” -David Alley

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