Pop-Tarts suck, Wilderness 101 is no joke, and the FATDOC film review with Brian Strauser:

Brian Strauser of the Strauser Project returns to discuss his Wilderness 101 race training and his review of the new release of the FATDOC aka FAT: a documentary film release from Vinnie Tortorich, Peter Pardini, and Serena Scott Thomas.

The Strauser Project is stepping up for the younger generation and others, blazing out a trail for others to follow. Brian is a guy with tremendous heart and wears his emotions on his sleeve… along with a few tattoos too!

Quote: Pop-Tarts Suck – Brian Strauser

Top 3 Hot Points:

1. Wilderness 101 aka the W101 Race is Insane!
2. Watch the FAT: a documentary film aka FATDOC
3. Pop-Tarts Suck!

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On This Episode You Will Hear:

• [spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
• [spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] You can’t even explain this to people that haven’t experienced the Wilderness 101 and actually have done it or been there. It was amazing the amount of climbing just to get up to the top of that day.
• [spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] I think a Specialized fat bike came in and it was like 13 hours or there’s like 12 hours and 50 some minutes. He comes rolling in on his fat bike and that’s just insanity!
• [spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] Most people that don’t race or haven’t put themselves through this type of thing, don’t understand that getting sweaty is a challenge. What people don’t understand is when you’re wet and your equipment is rubbing back and forth on your legs, you might as well have 100 grit sandpaper. You’ll get Rashed beyond belief or bleed in places just like runners have happened, where their nipples are bleeding just from their shirt rubbing.
• [spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] The government and these people are supposed to be watching after us and taking care of us. Like everything else, it’s more about the money and all the bullshit. Ever since I had this little girl, as a baby and watching her grow up, I now get more involved with the worrying about the types of stuff that I’m putting in her mouth.
• [spp-timestamp time=”50:00″] So much of it goes back to diet, that’s what fuels us, it’s what makes us what we are. If you’re not putting the right things in and instead of putting chemicals and all of the sprays and the stuff that goes into manufactured foods.
• [spp-timestamp time=”54:00″] It’s hard to wrap your brain around it and think that some guy is trying to screw you over by selling me a pop-tart, well that can’t be that bad. Well, it is that bad, Pop-Tarts Suck!
• [spp-timestamp time=”56:00″] Final Words

Final Words:

The biggest thing I would say to anybody is to keep an open mind. This has been an awesome ride ever since I met you a number of years ago. I think it’s been three to four years ago now. Ever since I went out and suffered in the woods and it was a little bit of comfort there too. While I was standing underneath that bridge, watching you pull up in the middle of the W101 and knowing that I just put you through that pain and suffering. Part of that was pretty exciting. But the one thing that all of this stuff has kind of done for me is open my eyes to just being more open to different things. You know, I never was into this type of stuff. I’ve now read more books in the past four years than I probably read in the past 40.

It’s been a blast. You know, anybody watching in this stuff, check out this FATDOC, it was a great story. I told my wife as soon as I watched it and said something to her. I don’t care if I gotta put my family in a car, go to Staten Island to visit with one of her family members, I’ll put it on in my truck so nobody can get away from it. They’re just gonna listen to it because it’s amazing information that’s out there now. Somebody can definitely get something from it. It’s not stuff that I would have been following in the past and it’s definitely things that I’ve been opened up to more recently. It’s just been a great ride to learn all this stuff.

Influencers Mentioned:

• Vinnie Tortorich

Resources:

• The Strauser Project on Facebook
• Leesburg Bakers Dozen Race on BikeReg
• Wilderness 101 Race July 20, 2019 (on BikeReg)
• My Strava feed from W101:
• https://www.strava.com/activities/2549034403
• 2019 W101 race results:
• http://www.mtntouring.com/mountain/htm/wilderness_101/W101-results/w101-2019-results-ultra-overall.pdf
• NUE Overview of W101:
• http://nuemtb.com/series/wilderness-101-ultra-endurance-mountainbike-race
• Past W101 Race Course info:
• http://www.mtntouring.com/mountain/htm/wilderness_101/w101_course.htm
• Mountain Touring Overview of W101:
• http://www.mountaintouring.com/htm/wilderness_101/w101_body.htm

Watch On YouTube:

Past Appearances:

• The Struggle is Real & Wilderness 101 MTB Race with Brian Strauser episode 274
• Brian’s Wilderness 101 episode 258
• Brian’s Holiday Appreciation episode 238
• Brian’s Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness episode 045
• Brian’s first podcast Super Dad Strauser Project episode 017

Action Steps:

• Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
• Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
• Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

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The Strauser Project Returns on the Bakers Dozen Race, Wilderness 101 Training Updates, and The Struggle is Real gang!

Brian Strauser of the Strauser Project returns to discuss his Wilderness 101 race training. He recently attended the Leesburg Bakers Dozen mountain biking race in Virginia.

Quote: Keep a perspective out there, keep your head up, and when shit happens, know you can get around it. ~ Brian Strauser

Brian Strauser of The Strauser Project is stepping up for the younger generation and others, blazing out a trail for others to follow. Brian is a guy with tremendous heart and wears his emotions on his sleeve… along with a few tattoos too!

Top 3 Hot Points:

1. Training and Challenges
2. Listening to Loved Ones
3. Announcing FUEL Foundations

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Resources:

• The Strauser Project on Facebook
• Leesburg Bakers Dozen Race April 27, 2019 (on BikeReg)
• Wilderness 101 Race July 20, 2019 (on BikeReg)
• Selene Yeager “The Fit Chick”, author at Bicycling Magazine
• Follow Fit Chick Selene Yeager on Facebook

Past Appearances:

• Brian’s Wilderness 101 episode 258
• Brian’s Holiday Appreciation episode 238
• Brian’s Epidermlysis Bullosa Awareness episode 045
• Brian’s first podcast Super Dad Strauser Project episode 017

Final Words:

It’s it’s all about perspective to me. I wrap myself around all the right people, I was just at John Dilgen’s this past weekend I put a custom cap door in our buddy John Dilgens home. John is a young man in more pain than I could ever possibly understand. So to sit here and bitch about the fact that my knee hurts and I gotta walk a little bit weird, it just doesn’t seem right to me.

So I just try to keep my head in the right place and like you said before, just keep doing what I do. Just tweak it in the way that is necessary. I like to keep a good perspective on what you got. I think I had something similar before that so many people are so upset about some of the most trivial bullshit in their life and sit around just making it miserable for their spouses for their kids. They don’t even have a grasp on what they truly have.

I try to live by knowing what I got. I’m an extremely happy man and share that gratitude all the time. I try to give back to as many people as I can because it’s just the way I think it should be. So keep a perspective out there, keep your head up and when shit happens, know you can get around it.

Influencers Mentioned:

• Our podcast ep 045 about John Dilgen living with Epidermolysis Bullosa – livethefuel.com/045
• John Dilgen EB on Facebook
• John Lahutsky inpiring and living with Cerebral Palsy on YouTube – https://youtu.be/qXtZwDcfPi0
• John Yaroslav Lahutsky on Facebook

On This Episode You Will Hear:

• [spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
• [spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] The struggle is real and I’m just trying to imagine the struggle of people in that town trying to keep that community together. Especially when all of that started going down. Even after many people decided to get the hell out of dodge but there was still a few people who just never left.
• [spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] I was doing all of that biking just to become healthier. It was something I loved ever since I was a little kid and I did some cross country stuff. A lot of those guys are lean, mean, fighting machine super fast and it’s a short race.
• [spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] I still did 40 some miles you know, that’s where the mental comes in. Super bummed when I got pulled and I was still able to ride. I just wasn’t keeping the pace.
• [spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] GoPro, I love the fact that you tied what can be considered a very expensive purchase, for you and your sister, to very important things that are tied to passion.
• [spp-timestamp time=”50:00″] That was my worst race ever. I had every possible mechanical bullshit problem go wrong. I had a mechanical on every lap, it was beyond frustrating.
• [spp-timestamp time=”01:00:00″] Final Words

Action Steps:

• Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
• Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
• Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

Watch On YouTube:

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