From Alcoholic to Ultra-Athlete | Rich Roll
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Location: Los Angeles
Date: Saturday, 20th July 2019
Company: Rich Roll Podcast & richroll.com
Role: Author & Podcaster
Rich Roll is a vegan ultra-endurance athlete, wellness advocate and public speaker. Featured by CNN, The New York Times, the Huffington Post, Rich was named by Men’s Fitness Magazine as one of the “25 Fittest Men in the World.”
Life hasn’t always been this way for Rich. At 31, he checked himself into rehab to deal with his alcohol addiction which had seen him spend time in jail and very nearly cost him his career as an entertainment lawyer.
After spending 100 days in rehab, Rich returned to his successful career, but while he had his alcoholism under control, his health was still taking a back seat. He was 50lbs overweight, struggling with everyday tasks and approaching his 40th birthday he decided to do something about it. Rich adopted a vegan diet, took up running and started swimming again, a sport he had excelled in while studying at Stanford University.
Since then Rich has gone on to compete in numerous triathlons and ultra-triathlons and in 2008 competed in his first Ultraman, an invitation-only 320-mile endurance race held over three days on the Big Island, Hawaii. In 2009 he returned to the same event and managed a phenomenal 6th place finish.
In this interview, I speak to Rich and find out the challenges he has faced overcoming alcoholism and becoming a successful vegan ultra-endurance athlete.
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More articles on Rich:
New York Times: A Brutal Competition, Island to Island, in Sweden
New York Times: Vegans Go Glam
Forbes: Rich Roll: How Healthy Eating Habits Fueled His Career
Outside Online: Rich Roll on How to Sustain Peak Performance
Mentioned in the show:
Rich Roll Podcast: Joseph Naus’ Straight Pepper Diet: How a Sex Addicted Lawyer Who Lost Everything Found Salvation
Rich Roll Podcast: Marc Ching on Risking His Life to End Asia’s Dog Meat Trade
Rich Roll Podcast: Jack Dorsey On Solitude, Self-Care & Civil Discourse
YouTube: Joe Rogan Podcast
Wikipedia: Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Twelve Steps of AA
Wikipedia: Jay Moloney
New York Times: A Hollywood Agent Who Rose And Fell Fast Is Found Dead
Wikipedia: Ultraman (endurance challenge)
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