Derek Cullen is an adventurer and bikepacker who rode solo across Africa and built a life around long, self-supported journeys. His perspective is a counterweight to the metrics-driven default of amateur cycling: a reminder that the bike is also a vehicle for adventure, perspective and a different kind of fulfilment than a faster FTP.
The major positions Cullen is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Derek Cullen on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 2 episodes in total.
“When you think about sadness as a feeling, right, we generate that we construct that and we construct it by spending too much time in either the past or the future. So if that's true, which is widely scientifically proven that it is, well then that tells us that if we spend more time in the present, that's how we can avoid the sadness that we're bringing on by ourselves.”
“The way to stay in present, the easiest way that I know to stay present is to go for a walk, for example, to walk out the front door because activity and exercise, that's what switches out the limbic side of the brain, which is the side of the brain that makes us feel anxious all the time.”
“I walked outside. I stood looking down the river Liffy and I just felt a couple of tears and then I heard a different voice in my head just saying, what are you doing to yourself like you made all these decisions you're not really unhappy about what that person said and work your unhappy because of all the this stuff you're doing to yourself.”
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