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“Just say YES!” Scott Casella’s Story

Scott Casella’s journey shows how setting ambitious goals, building strength and having the right support can help you take on challenges you never thought possible.

Author:

Julian Tubman, Coach and Physiotherapist

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Published Jul 20, 2020

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Scott Casella is a true testament to PEAK’s vision of #Dreambig! Scott’s Journey at PEAK started back in 2013 through an appointment for his work. Six years later, Scott enquired about our inaugural Experience Not Felt Possible trip to Nepal. With no previous mountain bike experience, Scott decided to step out of his comfort zone and signed up to ride over the Nepalese mountains.

Taking on the Nepalese Mountains

In the lead up to Nepal, Scott trained for several months to build up his strength and confidence. The trip was harder than he anticipated and consisted of 10 long days of mountain bike trekking through some of the most demanding passes in the world – with the highest climb going over 5500 metres! Once Scott had completed Nepal, he was already thinking “What’s next?”

Turning Setbacks Into New Goals

In 2020, Scott set himself a new goal of completing a full Ironman distance triathlon in Germany. Challenge Roth is the largest long distance triathlon in the world. When this unfortunately didn’t go ahead, Scott didn’t let this effect his mindset. Instead, he put his head down and continued training.

“Many thoughts came into my head like, let’s just give up all together, I can stop training I’ve got plenty of time!! However, luckily I have a wonderful support team that keeps me moving and tells me to keep going! And I am ever so grateful for them!”

At PEAK one of our values is ‘Choose Your Pain’, which involves choosing the pain of discipline over dysfunction. For the past 6 months, Scott has been attending two strength sessions a week to help prevent his risk of injuries and develop strength for the Ironman. He has found an amazing support crew at SBR Triathlon club where he trains 6 days a week.

He has since set himself two new goals of:

Sunshine Coast 70.3 in September
Cairns Full Ironman in September

Just say YES

We love Scott’s attitude that if a new challenge comes along, “Just say YES”. PEAK is so privileged to be a part of Scott’s Journey. We can’t wait to support him on the 27th of September for his first full Ironman in Cairns!

Julian Tubman

PEAK Coach and Physiotherapist

PEAK Coach and Physiotherapist Julian this week talks about overcoming injury and setting himself reasonable goals during his recovery.
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