TDZ 157 - Team Overconfident and Undertrained: Overdelivering on Fun
About this episode
Twin sisters Jennifer Robertson and Jamie Miller discuss their adventure racing journey and the lessons learned along the way.
Twin sisters Jennifer Robertson and Jamie Miller of Team Overconfident and Undertrained join TDZ to talk about the greatest team name in adventure racing. Based in Oklahoma, Jennifer and Jamie discovered adventure racing two and a half years ago and never looked back. In this episode, they talk with TDZ about the accountability of training with your twin living across the street, learning navigation by stumbling into checkpoints, two 24-hour races that humbled them, and the third they're determined to finish. It's a conversation about saying yes, and about getting past the what-ifs and the fear of finishing last, and discovering that the joy outweighs all of it. Jennifer and Jamie came up through high family expectations, youth sports, college basketball, and learned the hard way that performance isn't identity. During their adventure racing journey, they get into the dehydration and cold-weather lessons that ended their first two 24-hour attempts, the videos they make on the long drive home to bring more people into the sport, and a candid take on where youth sports have gone wrong. It's a reminder that the best adventure racers are the ones who keep showing up, do their best…
People in this episode
Host: Brian Gatens
Guests: Jennifer Robertson, Jamie Miller
Topics covered
- adventure racing
- team dynamics
- overcoming challenges
- youth sports
- personal growth
Keywords
- adventure racing
- team name
- training
- navigation
- youth sports
- 24-hour races
Sponsors
ARWS Junior World Champs, Youth Adventure Race Camp
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Team Overconfident and Undertrained
Places: Oklahoma
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