Like ending a marathon, efficiently finishing a Rubik’s Dice is one thing that even those that have by no means achieved it perceive that it’s difficult, distinctive and price celebrating. And the few who have achieved it get pleasure from a particular sort of camaraderie.
To most minds, the similarities between the dice and the marathon cease there. However for this week’s visitor, Canadian Operating’s cowl athlete, George Scholeythere’s far more to the equation.
At simply 23, Scholey has already damaged a number of Rubik’s Dice world information, together with for probably the most cubes solved in 24 hours. In recent times, he’s begun a brand new pursuit: marathon working. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than his two passions converged–in his hometown on the London Marathon, the place he broke one more report, fixing 520 cubes over the course of the marathon (a median of greater than 12 cubes per kilometre).
On this week’s episode, George joins us from his new residence base in Canada, the place he’s engaged on the enterprise of cubing as a model supervisor at Rubik’s world headquarters in Toronto. We speak concerning the parallels between cubing and coaching, how he matches the items of his full-time work and fervour challenge collectively, and what the world’s hottest puzzle may need to supply runners of all capacity ranges.
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