InnerVoice

When I reached a milestone in my running career, placing third in the Malibu Marathon, none of my friends were there to witness it or to share a high five with afterward. My friends were passed out from partying the night before; I didn’t get to share my modest podium placing ...

I grew up in Wollongong, a city just south of Sydney. I lived there for the first 22 years of my life, and then more recently I moved north to the Gold Coast where the conditions are better for training and racing. It’s been a good move. My first race was at age 13, so even th...

Last week, I sent out issue 172 of The Morning Shakeout, and I have not missed a week since I started it. We’re talking over three years of the email newsletter coming out every Tuesday. It started when I was still the senior editor at Competitor magazine. It was a creative it...

When I was 14, I found a bump on my neck. I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It ended up becoming my identity in high school because it was such a traumatic thing that happened to me. I had chemotherapy and radiation and got through it fairly quick...

Since my last InnerVoice, I married my love, Ted King, moved across the country to Vermont (a state of only 600k people), decided to leave my job and figured after all of that, why not buy a house on 10 acres with a pond and two barns? In my previous post, I must’ve been unkno...

I have never wanted to quit something athletic so bad in my life. Denali in Alaska is North America’s highest peak at 20,320 feet above sea level. Trying to eat was a fight I never won.

I was incarcerated from 1978 to 1980. It was while I was locked up that I got into boxing. There's a saying in the institutions that you’ve got to get your weight up when you get locked up. I went in 135 pounds soaking wet, and I came out 165 pounds. I grew up on the streets o...

Eduardo Della Maggiora is an Ironman Triathlete and founder of Burn To Give, a social enterprise platform designed to provide life-saving nutrition to children in need through Triathlon training.

My favorite quote is “pain is inevitable, suffering is optional” - it’s all about how you perceive hard work. The human body is capable of reaching amazing limits if you dial into your inner voice, paired with the right amount of practice. It might seem a little bit crazy, but...