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“What do you do when the person who raised you starts slipping away?”

In this episode, I sit down with ultra-endurance athlete and coach Travis Macy—but this isn’t really about racing.

It’s about what happens when the real challenge begins at home.

Travis’s father, Mark Macy, was once his teammate—racing Eco-Challenge together at the highest level. Today, he’s living with Alzheimer’s.

And yet… they’re still pushing.

Still walking. Still getting outside. Still finding moments of connection.

Not because it’s easy.
 But because it might be the only thing that keeps something alive.

We talk about:

– What movement actually does for the brain (even late into decline)
 – Why identity doesn’t fully disappear—even when memory does
 – How far you can push when the goal is no longer performance, but presence
 – And what endurance really means when there’s no finish line

This one stayed with me.

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