MEET MARK
Imagine stepping onto a skateboard for the first time in 38 years and thinking "Let's see if I can ride this 600 miles to Canada". |
MARK IN A NUTSHELL: Mark takes on adventurous challenges for no other reason than to see if he can pull them off. Sometimes he succeeds ... sometimes he doesn't. Either way he learns something. But one thing is 100% guaranteed. He always comes away with a story. It's the stories he uses to inspire his audiences to explore their own Curiosities, develop the Audacity to believe in themselves and the Tenacity to persevere when everyone else is quitting.
SOME OF MARK'S ADVENTURES
SOME OF MARK'S ADVENTURES
- 3,400 mile bicycle ride from Santa Cruz, CA to Ocean City, NJ
- 5,000 mile bicycle ride across Europe
- 600 miles by skateboard from the Capitol building in Washington DC to the Parliament building in Ottawa, Canada.
- 276 mile run across Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia (ten days - averaging over a marathon a day)
- 44 mile run across the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and back again
- 100 mile run along the entire length of the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West (29 hours straight through)
- 87 mile run in 24 hours (just to see how far I could go)
- 26.2 mile marathon up and down the Art Museum (Rocky) steps in Philadelphia (because Rocky is awesome)
- 100 km (62 miles) run around New York city
- 200 mile trek through the Nepal Himalayas
- scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- learned to surf/drown in Bali, Indonesia
- bicycled the length of Great Britain from hometown of Southampton to John O'Groats, Scotland
44 mile run/hike/crawl through the Grand Canyon and a tough 31 miler through the Pennsylvania highlands
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He's been inspiring audiences for over 20 years
Mark has had a blast speaking in 38 states to everything from small workshop audiences to crowds as large as five thousand!
Before he ever took on a corporate audience he cut his teeth inspiring teenage athletes. Working with kids you quickly discover that young people always learn more by doing than they ever will by just listening. And he brings that experience to his corporate audiences with stories, audience participation challenges and physical demonstrations.
Before he ever took on a corporate audience he cut his teeth inspiring teenage athletes. Working with kids you quickly discover that young people always learn more by doing than they ever will by just listening. And he brings that experience to his corporate audiences with stories, audience participation challenges and physical demonstrations.
And if he's not on stage or off getting new stories, he's...
in the gym teaching kids at his own gymnastics center in Pennsylvania. Formally a member of the British National team he has been coaching kids since 1982. Mark has been the assistant coach to the US Junior Olympic Team and is the author of "Going For It" a motivational book for teenage athletes.
Riding 3,400 miles, solo and unsupported across the US
Riding 5,000 across Europe and running 276 miles across Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh to Philadelphia - 10 marathons in 10 days)
600 miles by skateboard with my son (Washington, DC to Ottawa, Canada) and flips at 18,000 feet in the Himalayas
Cartwheels at the end of a 24 hour-87 mile long run and foot care in the middle of a 100 mile run along the Florida Keys
A 26.2 mile solo marathon up and down the Philadelphia Art Museum (Rocky) steps
Abusing the trust that parents place in me at my own gymnastics center
Times Square, New York before running 100km around the city