Ep. 99 - Adam Sommerville - How I Survived Suicide To Become A New Zealand Ironman - Tony Jackson Scholarship

Adam Sommerville is preparing to take on his long-term goal of completing the 2023 Nutri-Grain Ironman New Zealand after two years ago, on January 7, 2021, Adam decided that he was going to take his life. He got out of bed at 2.30am, jumped in his car and drove to his favourite Auckland beach.   “I was fighting a bigger battle in my own mind than I think anybody around me could understand. It got to the point where so much had gone on and I felt like there was too much to unpack upon somebody. I didn’t want to be a burden,” said Adam. He remembers sitting on the beach in the darkness, listening to the waves, and feeling nothing. It was at that moment that a notification on his phone popped up and pulled him away from the darkness. Listen to his story starting from the moment he sat on the beach up to the point where he was awarded the Tony Jackson Scholarship.