Colin O'Brady

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The School of Greatness · 54 Days Alone in Antarctica, Pulling 375 Pounds | Colin O’Brady · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And I love my mother so much for this.

Instead of her going like, oh, I said set a goal, but maybe within the parameters of what the doctors are saying your diagnosis is or whatever, she's like, great, that's what you're gonna do.

Let's learn everything about triathlon.

I've never raced a triathlon before.

I swam in college, but I never bike competitively, run competitively.

I don't even know how you change your shoes from a bike to a run out.

I don't know any of this stuff.

She's like, great, that's your goal.

And so it was three months that I was in that Thai hospital.

And I was finally flown back to the United States to Portland, Oregon, where I'm from, haven't taken a single step.

I was carried on and off the plane, placed in a wheelchair when I got home.

And I'm in my mother's kitchen that first day.

And my mom says to me, she goes, Colin, she goes,

I know you've got this big triathlon goal, but you gotta figure out how to take your very first step.

And she grabs this chair from our kitchen table that I grew up eating around.

She puts it one step in front of my wheelchair.

She goes, I'm gonna leave the room, but your entire goal for the day is to get out of that wheelchair and take one step and show me that you can sit in that chair that's one step away from you.

It was three hours staring at that chair, like looking at it.

And I finally, I get up three hours of courage and strength.

I haven't taken a single step in months.

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