Episode 89 - Terry Davis

Kia Ora Whanau .Week Three of lockdown and this week we bring you race director extraordinaire Terry Davis. This is a ripping yarn from one of the stalwarts of the Aotearoa trail and ultramarathon community. Northburn 100 bills itself as a race that you don’t complete, you survive, one that despite being so fiendishly, awfully, difficult draws people back year after year. Terry talks about his love of adventure. And how adventure can turn our lives around. Adventure can ignite us, embolden us, and take us to the edge of what we believe that we can accomplish. Now, that sounds cliche, right? Not how Terry tells it. We learn about the best kept secret in Aotearoa trail running, and consider that if a race director hates his own race, why should you even bother doing it? We challenge anyone to listen to this conversation and not come away even a little bit fizzing. We talk about Terry’s beginnings, his struggles with being a “sad arse” (his words) as a young man to finding adventure racing, meaning, and purpose. Terry also drops what Matt perhaps controversially considers the single best piece of advice ever heard on DCR. Taken literally, or metaphorically, it confirms what many people thought: Terry Davis is a prophet. Enjoy.