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Earlier this week we published a post about my 8-week microadventure challenge<\/a>. The book that inspired that challenge was Microadventures<\/a> <\/em>by professional adventurer Alastair Humphreys. In today’s podcast I have the pleasure of talking to Alastair about what inspired the idea for microadventures and why every man should start scheduling them into their life on a regular basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week we published a post about my 8-week microadventure challenge. The book that inspired that challenge was Microadventures by professional adventurer Alastair Humphreys. In today’s podcast I have the pleasure of talking to Alastair about what inspired the idea for microadventures and why every man should start scheduling them into their life on a regular 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