What does it take to finish the Leadville 100, climb frozen waterfalls, and help make endurance sports more welcoming?

In Episode 55 of Beyond The Finish Line, host Joe Hardin sits down with ultrarunner, ice climber, and community builder Ory Frazier to explore a life shaped by adventure, endurance, and connection.

Ory shares their journey from running for fitness to completing multiple 100-mile ultramarathons, including the legendary Leadville Trail 100. They discuss the mental side of ultrarunning, the importance of crews and pacers, and why the people surrounding an athlete can matter more than a finish time.

The conversation also explores ice climbing, living a semi-nomadic lifestyle, and discovering welcoming communities through outdoor adventure.

Ory introduces Medaling with Friends, a project designed to help runners find races, connect with friends, and discover events that align with their values, including inclusive race policies and support for adaptive athletes.

Are you preparing for your first ultramarathon, curious about ice climbing, or looking for a stronger sense of belonging in endurance sports? This episode is about finding adventure and the people who make it worthwhile.

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In this episode:

• The Leadville 100 experience and ultrarunning mindset

• Building friendships through trail running

• Ice climbing and outdoor adventure

• Nomadic living and pursuing meaningful experiences

• Inclusive running events and Medaling with Friends

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Lucy Schodell knows what it means to choose something difficult.

She's taken on The Speed Project solo, raced 100 miles, crossed 240 miles of the Gobi Desert and continues searching for adventures that make her nervous enough to wonder whether she can pull them off.

But Lucy doesn't see endurance as an individual pursuit.

In this episode of Enduring Minds, Lucy joins Evan Birch and Jason Bahamundi to talk about confidence, discomfort, motherhood, human connection and why she believes running, and life, are team sports.

Lucy shares how sports helped build her belief that she can take on difficult things, why being told she can't do something tends to make her want to do it even more, and why the people around us sometimes need to carry our confidence when ours disappears.

The conversation also goes beyond running.

Lucy discusses creating Watch Women's Sports IRL, a platform designed to make women's sporting events easier to discover and attend. What began partly from wanting her daughter to grow up watching women compete became another example of Lucy seeing a problem and deciding to do something about it.

There are also French fries, crying at an airport restaurant after a 100-miler, two exhausted runners weeping at a water stop in the Gobi Desert, and a discussion about what Evan calls “ultra feelings.” Because this is Enduring Minds and eventually somebody is going to cry.

This isn't a conversation about how to run hundreds of miles.

It's about what we discover about ourselves, and each other, when we do hard things together.

Enduring Minds: Going the distance. Breaking the silence.

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What happens when the goal you've spent years chasing no longer makes sense?

Jeff Seckendorf is 71, although he prefers Jeff version 7.1. He's a masters cyclist, coach, and record-setting competitor who has spent decades moving between careers, challenges, and ways of defining success.

After a shoulder injury disrupted his cycling plans, Jeff began exploring a different approach to racing. But the physical change raised a bigger question: Was he giving up, or simply changing direction?

Jason and Jeff discuss athletic identity, perseverance, aging, competition, injury, and the pressure we put on ourselves to finish what we started.

Jeff also shares how his experiences in filmmaking, scuba education, and cycling have shaped his approach to purpose and reinvention.

This conversation isn't about becoming Jeff. It's about figuring out what matters to you and having the willingness to pursue it, even when the original plan changes.

And yes, there's coffee and lemon cake.

Learn more at jeffscoaching.com and find Jeff's book, Diving Into Purpose.

Listen, then tell us: What's something you stopped doing that made room for something better?

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