I've qualified for the Hyrox World Championships twice. I showed up underprepared the first time and exhausted the second. Both times I raced anyway. Both times something unexpected happened.

This episode is about what I learned — and about the third decision, the one I didn't want to make, that turned out to require more courage than either of the races that came before it.

We get into:

• What Hyrox actually is and why it attracts a very specific kind of person
• The eight-year gap in my racing life and what brought me back
• What happens when you realise two days before race day that half of Hyrox is running — and you haven't been running
• Qualifying for a World Championship I didn't know existed
• The hernia diagnosis, the Stockholm decision, and why not racing is sometimes the braver call
• How fifteen years in global payments taught me the same lesson the start line did — and the RBS moment early in my career where I moved toward something before I could see where it led
• Three things you can use this week: the push-or-withdraw framework, adaptive planning, and protecting the asset