Navy SEAL Ultrarunner Chadd Wright | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 101

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Mike Ritland interviews Chad Wright, a former Navy SEAL who served 12 years and co-founder of the 307 Project. Wright shares his journey from childhood raccoon hunting and dog handling through his SEAL career to ultrarunning. The conversation covers Wright’s experiences in Last Man Standing races (including a 38-hour, 222-mile race he won), his spiritual awakening to Christianity during a 2012 deployment in Europe, and his perspectives on faith, purpose, and pushing human limits.

Key takeaways

• Wright recounts winning back-to-back Midstate Mile Last Man Standing races, running 30 hours in 2020 and 38 hours straight (222 miles with 37,700 feet of elevation) in 2021, emphasizing mental presence and staying focused on the immediate step rather than the distant finish
• According to Wright, he experienced what he describes as a spiritual encounter during a 2012 deployment in Europe that led to his Christian conversion, which he credits as the foundational element of his current life
• Wright explains his breeding and training philosophy with dogs (developed through raccoon hound experience), emphasizing that success requires both exceptional genetics and skilled training, plus the discipline to cull breeding lines honestly without ‘kennel blindness’

Episode details: published July 10, 2022 · 153.7K views · 2:19:14 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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