Ironman Unpreparedness Consequences
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Sam Parr tells a story about his friends attempting an Ironman competition with zero preparation.
"I was guilted into doing this Ironman and I trained for 6 months and did pretty good. But these idiots who went with us, they bought their bikes the day before when they were down there. The night before, when you set your bike up at the place, they were like 'Hey, how do we use those pedals that attach to your feet? We just bought them.'
Sully did the entire swim in backstroke because he didn't know how to swim with his head underneath the water. They assigned a kayaker lifeguard to him because they were so afraid he was going to drown. Of all the 9,000 people there, I'm not exaggerating, they got literally last place.
And then the next day they're like 'This is sick bro, you want to do it again?' It was the craziest thing on earth. These guys are idiots. They also asked me if I wanted to go climb Mount Kilimanjaro with them and I was like 'No, no I'm out.'"
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.